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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...
...think your article on Brother El Hajj Malik El Shabazz [March 5], better known as Malcolm X, was fair at all. As members of the Afro-American Unity Organization, we are not taught to hate whites but to judge a man according to his prestige. We are taught not to turn the other cheek to the Ku Klux Klan but to defend ourselves in event of attacks. You mentioned all the malicious things done during the life of Brother Malcolm, but you never mentioned the things he has done for Afro-Americans, such as scholarships given to Afro-American students...
...Malcolm Little-Malcolm X-John Doe, he was buried as Al Hajj Malik Shabazz, the name he earned in 1964 by making his pilgrimage to Mecca and being received as a true believer. He wore the white robe that signified his faith. In the four days before his burial, more than 20,000 persons, almost all Negroes, filed past his body as it lay on view in a glass-topped, wrought-copper casket. Following Muslim custom, when Malcolm was buried in suburban Westchester's Ferncliff Cemetery, his head was to the east, toward Mecca...
...Moslem world, religious and political actions are often so closely intertwined as to be inseparable. Naguib did not forget politics in the swirling fervors of the hajj. On the hill of Arafat, surrounded by his followers, he uttered this prayer: "Almighty God, give us victory in driving the British out of Egypt, and deliver Morocco from the French. We beseech you to help Arab and Islamic countries to fulfill their aims. May the religion of Allah be strengthened, and may those who support it emerge victorious...