الكاتب: T.B. lrving

You have heard this countless times, five times a day if you lived within earshot of a mosque. In the place of worship where your parents took you to pray in public, you saw the Imam or Islamic leader (who performs the same duties as a Protestant minister in Britain or North America) raise his hands and lift his voice to say: "In the name of God, the Mercy-giving, the Merciful!" Then you followed him with your lips and heart. Whenever the Imam was not there, or when you were with a group of Muslims who had no. such leader, the oldest or most learned man among you led the prayers. For Islam is democratic, and it forms its leaders from within its own membership. It is a pious faith that breeds men of ability.