That thou believest in God, the one God and none other with Him, and
that thou believest that Mohammed is His servant and His Apostle.
2. That thou believest in the Holy Angels and the Holy Books, the
Pentateuch, the Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran.
3. That thou believest in the Last Day, and in the Providence of God
both for good and for evil.
[2] The Hanbali ritual is now almost entirely confined to Medina and
Kasim in Central Arabia.
[3] This was written before the events of last September, which have
given a new impulse to liberalism in Egypt, though it has taken the
direction of Mohammedan thought there out of the hands of the Khedive.
[4] The exact composition of the Azhar university is as follows. Of the
five hundred and odd sheykhs or professors, two hundred are Shafite, two
hundred Malekite, one hundred Hanefite, and five Hanbalite. Each of
these sections has a supreme sheykh, chosen by itself, whose fetwa on
questions concerning the school is decisive. There is, moreover, a
Sheykh el Islam, also elected, who decides religious questions of
general importance, and a Grand Mufti appointed by the Government who
gives fetwas on matters of law. The latter is Hanefite, the former at
the present moment Shafite, as are the bulk of the students.
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