The highest honour which it is possible for the Moslem world to offer is to be conferred on Maulana Mohamed Ali, the Indian Moslem leader who died in London last Sunday while representing his community at the Indian Round Table Conference, the “News Chronicle” states. He is to be buried, it says, with the Prophets of Islam in the Moslem Holy of Holies, the Mosque of Omar, in Jerusalem. It will be the first occasion on which an Indian has been interred in the temple. The offer of burial at the Holy Shrine was telegraphed to London by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the paper adds.
The body of Mohamed All will be taken by boat to Port Said and will never be left by his relatives until it is placed in the tomb. Every minute, day and night a relative will be beside the remains, reciting from the Koran. At Port Said the funeral party will be met by thous ands of their co-religionists, and a great pilgrimage will escort the remains of the departed leader by road to Jerusalem.
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