| Show J r To ToMIe Mt d a Mo stem ion l Rich Lord Head y eM r Lord Headley's uprising Conversion and His Kissing Hissing of the ley English the converts of rho f feM hr Sacred Black Stone Winning Thousands of His Fellow Coun- Coun to Mohammedan Mohammedan- 7 ism white and men the first to bite l to Mohammedanism and an d Its Belief in Polygamy Pol make a devout x w pilgrimage to tos s come a real full full- fledged hadji k s p y r yc w t t ti rR P Pf Pv i ir v tC f t Y f r o x K v i w Jt S n t tS S r q v f fK L 4 t 4 a K i i fi X rk x f i 4 t kt s MR l jI w t Vt 3 V S Sp p i rf 3 p pC v r r C F R V r rl I II I l q t tA s t Sy tG 5 A At t j i fa b p L r i R cY Y A 5 x 3 i i w t s 's r c ArR fi r z t tt D t x f K F y arV rn q t g t q oA t a q rF h t A w K a fi F I I I ft rJ 1 r rI l j V q R t 4 of every CHRISTIANS C denomination in Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land are aTe g greatly r e e t I y aroused at the determined effort that is being made to spread the tha Moslem faith in that country and at the large number of English men and women including many of great prominence that are being converted The matter is one of grave grace concern to England the nations nation's statesmen for while Eng Eng- Eng Eng- land is a landof land of absolute religious lib lib- liberty liberty lib liberty erty it Is not a land where a man is permitted to have more than one wife And polygamy is inseparably bound up wIth the Moslem faith Mohammedan ism How can the spread of Mohammedan ism and the system of plural marriages which it upholds be stopped without gl ing ing giving gling believers serious offense offence to the millions of be be- be lievers in Islam who are subjects of England in India and other parts of the British Empire That is the question for tor which thus far no statesman has been able to sug- sug sug gest Iest suggest a satisfactory reply Until recently the Moslem faith had only the barest foothold in England Its followers were practically all from India and Mohammedanism other countries where Mohammedan ism flourishes All AIl this was changed however in 1913 when hen Baron Headley a wealthy well educated and influential nobleman astonished his Christian friends by em- em bracing embracing bracing the Moslem faith and becoming a regular worshiper at the mosque which had been established for lor a long time In the inthe town of Woking Before Defore he could consider himself a full fledged fledged a Moslem Moslem a hadI hadji as it is called Baron Baron Headley must make a pil- pil pilgrimage pil pilgrimage grimage to the holy city of Mecca in Arabia lIe He intended to start on this at once but the Great War and the Un- Un Unsettled un- un un settled conditions in Arabia which fol- fol followed fo fol followed lowed compelled him to postpone the trip until this year J 2 Aia- Aia vi The delay however did not prevent the leaders of the X Moslem faith from making capital out of the conversion of such a prominent member of the tho English nobility Missionaries I arrived from India and the mosque at be- be became became be became came the center ofa of a great propaganda which is being spread each year with in in- in in vigor To aid in the missionary work The Islamic Review w was vas founded and in this publication the editors continually boast of their hope of seeing England some someday someday someday day a Moslem nation Lists of Engh English h converts are arc printed d in each issue and Christians are appalled to see eee now row rap rap- rap idly rapidly they are increasing in number and how many prominent men and end women are arc included among them This Moslem organ does not hesitate to preach in the boldest terms terns the wis wisdom dom and righteousness of polygamy It urges not only that it is morally right but that in a country like England where there are arc so many more women than men it is an economic necessity If It you walk v in the tho footsteps of Jesus Jesu you must condemn monogamy aa ns much muchas muchas muchas as polygamy for the tho Lord never mar mar- married ned ried Lord Headley returned from his pd- pd pil pilgrimage grimage to Mecca in the September September first white man to make the acred jour jour- journey journey journey ney and become a full fledged hadji Ol 0 i course his trip has gh given giten en a tremendous impetus to thi work V 01 k of tho the Moslem missionaries mis missionaries and the tho mosque at Woking IS i s overwhelmed with converts eager to take part in the worship of Allah according to t o the rites laid down in the Koran Moslem worshipers including many English converts at a service ina In a London park park all all with their shoes removed as aa the Koran prescribes What Lord Headley had to do on his long journey to tho Holy City and during his stay there gives an excellent idea of the strange ceremonies and CUriOUS beliefs that form the Moslem Modem religion and make it so extraordinary While still many miles from Mecca he had hadl to discard his fashionable London clothes and put on two seamless cloths one coveting his loins and the other hIs shoulders This was all he was permit permit- permitted permitted ted to wear until the end of the pilgrim pilgrim- pilgrimage pilgrimage age He must go bareheaded and bare bare- barefooted footed and abstain from shaving cutting hIs hair or paring his nails There were endless prayers for him to say as he traveled slowly and laboriously on toward Mecca Also he must stop fre fre- frequently to pay his Us reverence to various shrines The rhe most important of these is the tomb of Eve The tomb is isa a quarter ofa of ofa ofa a mile in length this being the height which Mohammedan traditions say the first woman oman attained Lord Headley had to make a complete circuit of Mother cs c's I Ese's supposed resting place stopping to utter long prayers at the three domes which have been reared one at each cach end and one In n the middle The chief object of the pilgrims pilgrim's ven ven- veneration veneration in Mecca is the This IS a perfect cube of granite measuring about forty feet each cach way The believe it to have been built bulit by b Adam and rebuilt by Abraham after the Flood Set in one side of the IS the famous Black Stone In the days when they the Arabs v worshiped this stone and Mohammed Mo- Mo Mohammed Mo Mohammed hammed keen psychologist that he ho was had the shrewdness to incorporate it inthe in inthe inthe the religion he ho organized The Black Dlack Stono Steno is believed to have fallen from heaven and scientists who have examined It say that it really is a meteorite It is set in silver and is fast being worn away by the pressure of the tho millions of lips that have reverently kissed it during perhaps more moro than centuries On reaching Mecca there were many ablutions and prayers prescribed for Lord Headley t to go through Then he was required to circle about the seven times The first three three circuits were ere made at a quick run that must have been qUIte a strain on his lordship who is nearly seventy years ears old The Tho next nest four lour circuits were made at a slow pace and the pilgrim had to stop as ashe ashe he passed each corner of ol the lay his hand on it and repeat a special A yr fr t fit AA 5 S S ti r y J i i i faa sf i 3 M tom a y i A b 1 1 e r tx h hM M I k V irY v ti K f sv f 1 e r q r y geld r rr r re z s sS S r g i tR s 's wV a tf 5 c WY rt 4 8 t tit f it J r ir Not enough mosques in England to hold all the true believers and they worship in the open air i prayer At the end of the seventh cir cir- circling cir circling cling he was told to kneel and kiss the Black Stone which has such deep sig- sig sig significance for faithful Moslems After his hot and taking breath-taking trips around the Lord Headley was as privileged to quench his thirst and cool IllS his perspiring brow with water from the sacred well of Zam yam Zam which stands near by This Thi's This wells well's water Is thought to have spiritual properties much like those which the Hindus think the River Ganges possesses Next came still another strenuously athletic and prayerful run ceremony ceremony run running ning seven times from the summit of Mount Safa to the squally sacred acred peak of Mount Marwah Marv ah yards away As Lord Headley Hendley leached reached the top of each hill he had to pause and repeat a differ differ- different different ent prayer After a circular patch had been shaved sha from his head the baron went back to Mecca for more prayers and ablutions seven more moro of tho the and anda a second kissing of the tho Black Stone On the ninth day of ol his stay he went to Mount Arafat where according to Mohammedan tradition Eve alighted after her ejection from the Guden Carden Adam who ho had alighted in Ceylon trav trav- traveled traveled around the world in search of Eve Evo and finally they were reunited on n the summit of Arafat which means Mount of Recognition After listening to a sermon on the mountain the baron was required to travel back and forth for lor three days be between tween Arafat and tho village of Mma five fits miles away On the third day ho cast seven stones at each of tho the three devIls typified by three pillars in Mina A goat or sheep was as sacrificed and then Lord Headley was near enough to being a d hadji to return to Mecca have p his head shaved r 1 and his nails pared pared and exchange the tho rough l cloths he had been wearing for rich rich ceremonial robes f wU During tho the next three days day days J J Jf f while waiting for the blood of the sacrifice to ya dry dry as tradition requires I f s l sue he again circled cycled the many times kissed the Black Black Stone and attended endless prayer services t y r y SK 1 This ended the long i ceremonial of initiation into the mysteries of the eF y Moslem faith At last the baron v was as a full full fledged P nadJi with the right to call himself Al AI which means menns He who holds ho the Balance On his way homo home Baton Baron Headley stopped h in Cairo and delivered an address t a before the dignitaries of t 1 her fi fit the famous A AI Al Azhar uni university y gy two mosque In thIs s r q s lia he declared that the Dl Mos lIlos Moslem os ea t ry lem hem faith had made tens i K of f thousands of of con com erts k ti dA 0 S in England And he said that countless men and women who still call them them- themselves themselves themselves selves Christiana Christians are really Moslems at heart Baron Daron Headley Is la the first white hite man manto manto manto to make the Mecca pilgrimage openly and with ious the sincere desire to fulfill its ious bus purpose Other white men who have havo smuggled themselves into Mecca in dIs- dIs dIsguise disguise dis disguise guise have had some unpleasant revelations revelations revelations to make goes on both bothIn bothin In the city and on the roads leading to it One Ono of them thorn Colonel Wavell says sas sa that within n II few lew yards of the sacred is a 11 slave slavo market where Cry e e ery 3 tr r Worshipers embracing one another after a great Moslem festival at Woking England day scores of young girls are sold Into shameful bondage Peddlers who vho sell lell photographs of the holy shrines also sell lell albums filled with Pictures that not be tolerated in would any ChrIstian try country The thousands of pilgrims are contra coun coun- mUlder in danger of robbery and andeen en e ei en mul mUl- mUl der at the blinds bands of their believers fellow bellev ers among the wild Arab desert tribes |
