Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-19 | Page 7 | Descendant of Mohammed

DESCENDANT OF MOHAMMED j - t 'vl f ' V A descendant of Mohammed and a prince of Islam, Sayid M. Wajib Zeid-u'l-Gilani, sheik-ul-Islam of the Philippines Philip-pines in which capacity as Mohammedan Moham-medan high priest in the United States for our far eastern possessions he is promoting good will of all Moslems toward the government of the United States has been visiting in Washington. Washing-ton. Sayid Effendi, the princely title given to him by right and courtesy, is on his way around the world back to the Philippines. He comes with a record of accomplishment during the few months of his chieftainship over Moslem Philippines. Hs brought to. end the so-called holy war against Christians and Christian government; he has inculcated religious and racial tolerance, teaching a new Mohammedan Mohamme-dan creed of the brotherhood of man strange to the fierce, fanatic ana re- a-W bellious Moro tribes. A pure-strain Arab, Sayid Effendi, i as blond as a Teuton. He is tall, sleufier. with sandy hair and a thin beard and mustache of the same color. He dresses European fashion. He is a descendant in the thirty-seventh generation of Mohammed, through Fatima, the only daughter of the prophet.