KING OF HEJAZ MAKES RULES FOR SUBJECTS
LONDON. A Cairo dispatch to the Daily Express says that the Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz, who is reputed to bo a puritan among the Moslems, has decreed numerous stringent restrictions for his subjects, according to a consular report to the Egyptian Government. Among the things forbidden arc smoking,, use of alcoholic liquors, -use of perfume, wearing of gold and silver ornaments, and silk garments. Immediately the Muzziu’s call to prayer is heard, everyone must at once abandon -what they arc doing and hasten to the mosque for “prayer is better than work or sleep.” Shaving of the beard has been decreet! a crime for which both the w-ielder of the razor and, the person shaved shall be severely punished.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 3
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