And what shall make thee know what Is the judgment day? A day when no soul shall control aught for another, and the bidding on that day belongs to God.
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When the sun is folded up, and the stars fall, and the mountains are moved, and the she-camels shall be neglected, and when the beasts shall be crowded together, and the seas shall surge up, and when souls shall be paired with bodies; and when the child buried alive shall be asked for what sin it was thus slain; and when the pages shall be spread out, and the heavens shall be flayed and all hell set ablaze—the soul shall know what it has produced.
THE PILGRIMAGE
One of the important duties of a true Moslem is the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every true believer should make at least once in his lifetime. It is this not an ordinary journey, simply for the purpose of visiting the religious center of the Moslem world, but it is real hardship to the great majority of the Hadj pilgrims who come from the ends of the whole world at the prescribed time of the year, to gather at Mecca and take part in a series of imposing religious ceremonials.
Not every visit to Mecca and the Holy Kaabah is termed a Hadj, and no pilgrim is entitled to assume the title "El Hadj" unless he made the pilgrimage according to the strict
