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 steeples of the mosques announce the hours of prayer to the Musulmans after a prescribed form; the words are, "Most high God! most high God! most high God! I acknowledge that there is no other except God! I acknowledge that Mohammed is the Prophet of God! Come to prayer! Come to prayer! Come to the temple of salvation! Great God! Great God! There is no God except God." In the morning after the words "Come to the temple of salvation," the following is added, "Prayer is to be preferred to sleep! prayer is to be preferred to sleep!" Various purifications are enjoined before the duty can be properly commenced, "O true believers when ye prepare yourselves to pray, wash your faces and your. hands unto the elbows, and rub your heads and feet unto the ancles ." In certain cases a dispensation is