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Approximately 50 people listened to Indian music in Cabot living room at South House as the Learning from Performers series presented Ustad Asad Alli Khan, who is touring the United States this fall with his accompianist, Pundit Gopaldas...
...Northrop passed to Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi Arabian entrepreneur, $450,000 designated for two Saudi Arabian generals, Hashim Hashim and Asad Zuhair, who served at different times as chief of the nation's air force. Khashoggi denies the generals were bribed to buy Northrop planes. Nonetheless, Northrop did not defend the payment. Millar apologized last week to the Saudi government "for any embarrassment caused by this matter...
...Center. It was this sinless monism, Asad claims, this "new creed that gave them to understand that man was God's vicar on earth," that brought about the mass conversions to Islam during the great Moslem expansion that reached as far as Spain. It was "not a legendary 'conversion at the point of the sword.' " But Asad does not ignore the centuries of stagnation that overcame a vigorous society: "As soon as their faith became habit and ceased to be a program of life . . . the creative impulse . . . gradually gave way to indolence, sterility and cultural decay...
Moslems practice what many Christians merely preach: "The priesthood of all believers," as the primitive church called it. All adult Moslems of sound mind may perform any religious function. This Asad found a great advantage. "The absence of all priesthood, clergy, and even of an organized 'church' makes every Moslem feel that he is truly sharing in, and not merely attending, a common act of worship...
...duties of the Moslem on a had (pilgrimage) is to walk seven times around the Kaaba, the great black cube in Mecca that is the center of Islam and the symbol of God's oneness. Pilgrim Asad "walked on and on, the minutes passed, all that had been small and bitter in my heart began to leave my heart. I became part of a circular stream-oh, was this the meaning of what we were doing: to become aware that one is part of a movement in an orbit? Was this, perhaps, all confusion...