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girls should go to schools. He has thus disgraced the Muslims. 6. The growing of the beard and clipping of the middle portion of the moustache was the practice and order of the Prophet, but Amanulla's orders are against the same. 7. He ordered that boys should go to schools. Boys have the same legal position as grown up girls. In these schools religion, Shariat and the Koranic laws were not taught, but subjects were taught which interfered with the faith of the students. The boys became shameless. . . . . . . . . by education only knowledge regarding the orders of the Koran is intended and not the knowledge of writing European languages and figures, or knowledge about countries or about the kings of the past or the languages of the unbelievers. 8. It is not, and has never been, the practice that grown up Muslims girls should be sent away from an Islamic country for the sake of learning European writing and arts. On account of this undesirable action we Muslims were ridiculed by all Islamic and non Islamic countries. Never did and never will any king practice worse tyranny on the people than this. " The document spoke of Amanullah's adopting the solar year, like European countries, in place of the lunar year; of his making Thursday a holiday in place of Friday; of his opposition to the Lame Mullah of the Khost Rebellion and his imprisonment of Gul Agha. Coming close to the true, deep reason for the rebellion, the Mullahs had written, "He abolished allowances of the mullahs, of the callers to prayer, of the servants of the mosques, which these 135