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A United States Navy muezzin performing the adhan indoor with a microphone.. The muezzin (/ m (j) u ˈ ɛ z ɪ n /; [1] Arabic: مُؤَذِّن) is the person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret.
Adhān, Arabic for 'announcement', from the root adhina, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures. [1] [2]It is commonly written as athan, or adhane (in French), [1] azan in Iran and south Asia (in Persian, Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi), adzan in Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Malaysian), and ezan in Turkish, Bosnian ...
The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles . If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one.
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.
Tourists walk past the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure on July 21, 2024 in Giza, Egypt. (Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)
Mall of Egypt is a shopping mall in 6th of October, Giza Governorate, Egypt, about 32 km west of central Cairo. It is the first shopping destination of its kind in Egypt. The mall is owned and managed by the Majid Al Futtaim Group, [1] operating across the Middle East and North Africa region. Mall of Egypt is located on Al Wahat Road in 6th of ...
A community prayer service is being held Sunday evening at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen after eight victims were killed and seven wounded by a gunman on Saturday at Allen Premium Outlets mall ...
A mosque minaret in Hyderabad, Pakistan fitted with loudspeakers.. Loudspeakers were invented in the early 20th century, and they were introduced in mosques in the 1930s, where they are used by a muezzin for the adhan ("call to prayer"), [1] and sometimes for khutbah in Islam.