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We take MASJID here to mean prostration point, or place. One may say the Arabic word MASJID' also means a temple wherein Muslim worship. True; but the adjctive" clean," helps to take the second meaning of the word, i. e. Besides that; many other traditions we have received from our Imams, by which we understand that, here, the soil is meant and not the house of public religious worship.

17 VISITING THE TOMBS OF THE APOSTLES AND IMAMS (PILGRIMAGE)

WE BELIEVE that pilgrimages for visiting thetombs of the Apostles and Imams, as well as the scholars and the martyrs, is a definite religious precept which has to be observed, although not a must.

In many books of the SONNI Scholars, same asthose written by SHIITES, many a traditin is narratedfrom the prophet that he has recommended the

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