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From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
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.
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 ...
Time ends. Most scholarly opinions follow the Hanafi school, that Isha'a begins when complete darkness has arrived and the yellow twilight in the sky has disappeared. According to a minority opinion in the Maliki school, the prescribed time for Maghrib prayer ends when the red thread has disappeared from the sky.
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.
Hussainabad (Urdu: حسين آباد) is one of the neighbourhoods of Malir Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. [1] Another place with the same name also located in Block-3 of F.B. Area, Karachi and famous for its food street, namely Hussainabad Food Street, is mainly populated with Sunni Muslim Memon of Okhai community.
Karachi Time (Urdu: کراچی وقت, abbreviated as KART, LMT or Local Mean Time) was a time zone set at UTC+04:28:12 ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and observed prior until 1907 in Karachi. The local time was established by the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. [1] [2] From 1951 to 1971, the term Karachi Time was again used to denote ...
Grand Jamia Mosque (Urdu: گرینڈ جامع مسجد, romanized: graiṇḍ jāmi' masjid), is a cultural complex under construction in Bahria Town Karachi, Pakistan. When completed, the complex will include what would be Pakistan's largest and the world's third-largest mosque according to capacity. [ 2 ]