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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 ...
Ali Ahmed Mullah (born 5 July 1947), is the veteran muazzin (caller for prayer) at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for the past four decades. [3] [4] [5] Ali Ahmed Mulla is the longest serving muazzin for the Masjid al-Haram and has been following his family tradition in this profession since 1975.
Bilal ibn Rabah was born in Mecca in the Hejaz in the year 580. [5] There are differing accounts to the racial identity of his father according to historians. One account states that his father was an Abyssinian prisoner of war who had been given the name of Rabah, in Arabic meaning profitable, he had been handed over as a slave to the Quraishi Arab clan of Banu Jumah, this account is highly ...
A caller (Muezzin in Arabic) chants aloud from a raised place in the mosque. [17] Verses from the Quran are recited either loudly or silently. [17] These prayers are a very specific type of prayer and a very physical type of prayer called prostrations. These prayers are done five times a day, at set strict times, with the individual facing Mecca.
At the same time, he continued his duties as an honorary imam and muezzin. He started preaching and teaching around the age of thirty-five. The public followed his sermons in Doğan Bey Masjid, Namazgah Mosque and other mosques with great interest.
Podojak enrolled in the Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa in 1981, which he successfully completed in 1985. In the second grade of the madrasa, he was appointed muezzin of the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, a position he held until 1989.
Muezzin. A call to prayer is a summons for participants of a faith to attend a group worship or to begin a required set of prayers. The call is one of the earliest forms of telecommunication, communicating to people across great distances. All religions have a form of prayer, and many major religions have a form of the call to prayer. [1]
He started his education in 1932 and given his voice afterwards he became the muezzin of Rusi i Vogël mahala mosque. [2] Koçi served as the imam of Drisht from 1938–1939 before assuming the same role in Shkodër. Koçi was promoted to the mufti of Krujë in 1955. The next year, he was named mufti of Kavajë.