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ANOTHER assignment for this week's issue that was received with special enthusiasm was for the Religion story on Islam. Central to the story is the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca's holy places that for a devout Moslem is the ultimate in spiritual reward on this earth. One such devout Moslem is TIME'S veteran Cairo-based stringer Mohamed Wagdi, and for him the job was the opportunity of a lifetime-to make the hajj and report it. For the six weeks after he first made his application to go on last year's pilgrimage...
April 1965 coincides roughly with Dhu-al-Hijja in the year 1384 A.H. (after the hegira). It is the last month of Islam's lunar calendar, and the season to perform the hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy places of Mecca that for devout Moslems is both spiritual duty and lifetime dream. More than 1,200,000 pilgrims entered Mecca to carry out the prayers and ablutions of Islam's most sacred ritual (see following color pictures of last year's hajj). Luckily, this year there were no outbreaks of typhoid or cholera like those that have...
Hajj Before Trial. Not all who wanted to make the hajj this year could do so. Egypt's President Nasser, who made the pilgrimage himself in 1955, allowed only 17,000 hajj passports for his people; there were fist fights in Cairo as devout Moslems elbowed their way into queues to get the necessary documentation. In Jordan, airline space to Jeddah was at such a premium that one group of rich pilgrims flew to London, caught a BOAC flight to Dhahran near the Persian Gulf, then chartered a bus to cross 780 miles of desert...
...Drinking Man's Diet? For modern man, Lent is hardly more austere than the Drinking Man's Diet-and it may soon be easier still. Technically, Orthodox Christians must abstain from meat, dairy and oil products; even among the devout, the rule is strictly followed only for the first and last weeks of Lent. Protestant churches leave Lenten sacrifice up to the individual conscience, although some follow a regime similar to the one observed by U.S. Catholics: only one full meal on weekdays, plus two smaller meatless meals, voluntary sacrifice of some additional pleasure, such as smoking...
...respect for the sacred name, some devout Jews never pronounce the Hebrew word for God. Rabbi Sherman Wine, 36, of Birmingham Temple in the Detroit suburbs, has another reason for not mentioning the deity: he cannot prove that God exists. To the consternation and dismay of his fellow Reform rabbis, Wine publicly declares, "I am an atheist," and has expunged the name of God from all services at his temple. Wine is a rather special sort of atheist. Technically, he calls himself an "ignostic," which Wine defines as someone who will only accept the truth of statements that...