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Saudi Arabia:

Riyadh -- A fabulous new palace is being built here for the Saudi Royal family and is scheduled to be completed "within a year or two."

The superstructure, featuring the best of Islamic architecture and most modern Western "lines," is being built by the Atlas Construction Company, of Cairo. The chief builders, too, are from Egypt, according to newspaper reports from Saudi Arabia.
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King Saud
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IRAN:

Teheran - Their Imperial Majesties, Shah Mohammed Riza and Queen Soraya or Iran, have reached Moscow where they are to stay for about two week as guests of the Soviet Government.

Their Imperial Majesties are the first royal family of any Moslem state and first rulers of Iran ever to be received in Moscow.

PAKISTAN:

Karachi - A shipment of 38 F-86 Sabre jets-the type used in the Korean war-has reached Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, it has been announced by the American Embassy and high Pakistan Government officials here.

The fighters give Pakistan a modern jet air arm superior to that of almost any other Asian ally of the United States except Nationalist China.

INDONESIA:

Djakarta - A spokesman of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry has announced here that Indonesia and Syria will soon enter into a cultural treaty and that the Indonesian Government is also desirous of concluding similar treaties with other Moslem countries.

BAHREIN:

Bahrein - Emir Salman bin Hamid al-Khalifa, ruler of this Protectorate, recently ordered a complete boycott of Israel throughout his country.

Bahrein is the first Arab country outside the Arab League to join the embargo.

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[[text box]] The Late Maulana Siddiqui Al-Qaderi

It is two years since the great Moslem missionary and philosopher and my spiritual guide, His Eminence Maulana Shah Mohammed Abdul-Aleem Siddiqui Al-Qaderi, returned to the mercy of Allah.

Maulana Siddiqui Al-Qaderi, father-in-law of Dr. Hafiz Mohammed Fazlur Rahman Ansari Al-Qaderi, our advisor, was well known throughout the Moslem world as the author or a number of books on Islam and related subjects in four languages-Urdu, Arabic, Persian and English. He was also the founder of numerous educational institutions in India, Pakistan, South Africa, East Africa, Malaya, etc., and sponsor of many a charitable project throughout the globe.

In the first issue of this magazine, which was printed in December 1954 and dated January 1955, we had stated: "We of MOSLEM WORLD & THE U.S.A. owe a great deal to the spirit of the late Maulana Siddiqui Al-Qaderi. In a way, our journal owes its very existence to this person, for it was His Eminence Siddiqui himself who had suggested the establishment of such a magazine in America and, in a letter (addressed to our publisher) in 1952, had approved of the title MOSLEM WORLD & THE U.S.A."

The full text of His Eminence's letter, mentioned above, read: "I am very please to note (your) decision to start a publication under the title of MOSLEM WORLD & THE U.S.A. English-speaking people in general and Americans in particular are very badly in need of authentic Islamic literature in order to have a true picture of Islam before them. Islam is mostly misinterpreted and misrepresented intentionally or unintentionally by most of those people who have written books and publishd magazine and papers with an object of explaining the teachings of Islam.

"Moslems in the U.S.A. are scattered in different parts of the country and they are greatly in need of a link to connect them with each other. Millions of Moslems all over the world too do not know anything about the strength of American Moslems. To publish a magazine with an idea to unite the Moslems in American and have acquaintance with the rest of the Islamic world is a most noble task. I pray Almighty Allah to shower His choicest blessing upon the founders of this journal and wish every success for the said publication."

We believe, of course, the MOSLEM WORLD & THE U.S.A. has already been able to serve a part of th purpose for which it was intended, namely, to connect the U.S. Moslems with their coreligionists abroad, by including in its various issues a dozen stories on the American Moslem communities. A matter of even grater satisfaction to us, however, is the fact that in November, shortly after the second anniversary of the passing away of Maulana Siddiqui Al-Qaderi, we shall present to the public another publication (a book) dedicated to the memory of the great sage of Islam-entitled "ISLAM IN AMERICA: Man's Oldest Faith Finds a New Future."

Abdul Basit Naeem [[/text box]]

[[bold]]AUGUST-SEPT. 1956 39 [[/bold]]