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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. [2] [3] The muezzin plays an important role in ensuring an accurate prayer schedule for the Muslim ...
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 ...
In a mosque, the muezzin broadcasts the call to prayer at the beginning of each interval. Because the start and end times for prayers are related to the solar diurnal motion, they vary throughout the year and depend on the local latitude and longitude when expressed in local time.
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. Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five times a day for the call to prayer. [2]
An Imam of Friday Prayer is expected to be distinguished for intellect (), faith (), and righteousness.Traditionally, a Friday prayer imam must be male and, according to some, also of legitimate birth. [7]
The most unusual feature is the brick minaret on which a pavilion shelters a large skin drum , which is used to summon the faithful to prayer instead of the more common muezzin. Whereas a bedug normally hangs under the eaves of a mosque veranda, in the Kudus Mosque it sits in a tower like a Balinese Hindu temple kul-kul or signal drum used to ...
The first season of Hafiz Indonesia was held in 2013. The show aired every Monday-Friday at 14:30 pm from July 8, 2013, to August 6, 2013. The first winner of Hafiz Indonesia 2013 is Hilya. [1] The 2nd season of Hafiz Indonesia aired every day at 14:00–16:00 WIB during Ramadan 1435/July 2014.
The presence of foreign Muslims in Indonesia does not, however, demonstrate a significant level of local conversion or the establishment of local Islamic states. [8]: 3 The most reliable evidence of the early spread of Islam in Indonesia comes from inscriptions on tombstones and a limited number of travellers’ accounts. The earliest legibly ...