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Loudspeakers are sometimes also used inside mosques to deliver sermons or for prayer. [3] Electrically amplified adhans have become commonplace in countries such as Turkey and Morocco, [4] whereas in others such as the Netherlands only 7 to 8% of all mosques employ loudspeakers for the call to prayer. [5]
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]
Mohammad therefore decided between a fire, a bell, a Jewish horn and the nāqūs for the muezzin's call to prayer . [2] Apparently, in the early days of Fustat, the Muslims struck the nāqūs as an early-morning call to prayer. [3] The sound of the nāqūs as a call to prayer was heard along with the crowing of the cocks. [4]
In Gaza, call to prayer rings out from bombarded mosque. Fadi Shana and Mohammed Salem. November 30, 2023 at 3:55 AM. By Fadi Shana and Mohammed Salem.
The formal function of a minaret is to provide a vantage point from which the muezzin can issue the call to prayer, or adhan. [3] The call to prayer is issued five times each day: dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and night. [7] In most modern mosques, the adhān is called from the musallah (prayer hall) via microphone to a speaker system on ...
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 ...
The word iqāma itself is multivalent, but its most common meaning outside the inauguration of prayer is in the context of immigration law, referring to a long-term visa for a foreign national. In some cases, as in Egypt , it is a stamp on the foreigner's passport; in others (as in Morocco and Saudi Arabia ) it is a separate identity document ...
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 ...