Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-24 | Page 9 | Evading the Law Section

EVADING lawag of in a mohammedan according to one of the tenets of the mohammedan religion it 1 a fin to make a picture of any living thing the elaborate decorations of the palace aud mosques at the east are almoas exclusively clu made up 0 ingeniously interlaced geometric designs arabesques or flowers intermixed with sentences ot tho koran there Is a belief among that at the day 0 judgment allah arth demand that the artist who has made the image of a living thing shall endow that image with alte and that falling td do this the artist will be sent to alon for hie sin A gentleman who visited a mosque ta algiers found that the allee with ehla the building Is decorated which are very old and beautiful are adorned alth flights of birds lie expressed surprise at this and asked it the command against such representation were a modern edict j oh no answered the pious alg rian to whom he addressed tho alon these are not pictures ot birds i but they anro painted as it across abo tiles the other said in some astonishment the replied but do you not see that about the neck of each there 1 a fine black line that 14 to show that the artist painted only dead birds and the command of tha koran Is not violated