Adhan (Arabic: أَذَان [ʔaˈðaːn]), also variously transliterated as athan, adhane (in French),[1] ajan/ajaan, azan/azaan (in South Asia), adzan (in Southeast Asia), and ezan (in the Balkans and Turkey), among other languages,[2] is the Islamic call to public prayer (salah) in a mosque recited by a muezzin at prescribed times of the day.
Adhan is recited from the mosque five times daily, traditionally from the minaret. It is the first call summoning Muslims to enter the mosque for obligatory (fard) prayer (salah). A second call, known as the iqamah, summons those within the mosque to line up for the beginning of the prayers. Only in Turkey, Ezan is voiced in five different styles at different times; saba, uşşak, hicaz, rast, segah.[3]
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 and Serbo-Croatian Latin (езан in Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic and Bulgarian, ezani in Albanian).[2] Muslims on the Malabar Coast in India use the Persian term بانگ, banku, for the call to public prayer.[4]
The muezzin is chosen for his ability in reciting the adhan clearly, melodically, and loudly enough for all people to hear. This is one of the important duties in the mosque, as his companions and community rely on him in his call for Muslims to come to pray in congregation.[8] The Imam leads the prayer five times a day. The first muezzin in Islam was Bilal ibn Rabah, a freed slave of Abyssinian heritage.[9][10]
During the Friday prayer (Salat al-Jumu'ah), there is one adhan but some Sunni Muslims increase it to two adhans; the first is to call the people to the mosque, the second is said before the Imam begins the khutbah (sermon). Just before the prayers start, someone amongst the praying people recites the iqama as in all prayers. The basis for this is that at the time of the Caliph Uthman he ordered two adhans to be made, the first of which was to be made in the marketplace to inform the people that the Friday prayer was soon to begin, and the second adhan would be the regular one held in the mosque. Not all Sunnis prefer two adhans as the need for warning the people of the impending time for prayer is no longer essential now that the times for prayers are well known.[citation needed]
The call to prayer is said after entering the time of prayer. The muezzin usually stands during the call to prayer.[23] It is common for the muezzin to put his hands to his ears when reciting the adhan. Each phrase is followed by a longer pause and is repeated one or more times according to fixed rules. During the first statement each phrase is limited in tonal range, less melismatic, and shorter. Upon repetition the phrase is longer, ornamented with melismas, and may possess a tonal range of over an octave. The adhan's form is characterised by contrast and contains twelve melodic passages which move from one to another tonal center of one maqam a fourth or fifth apart. Various geographic regions in the Middle East traditionally perform the adhan in particular maqamat: Medina, Saudi Arabia uses Maqam Bayati while Mecca uses Maqam Hijaz. The tempo is mostly slow; it may be faster and with fewer melismas for the sunset prayer. During festivals, it may be performed antiphonally as a duet.[24] Duration can be 4 minutes, but also longer, and then continuing with the shorter iqama.[25]
In some Muslim-majority countries, television stations usually broadcasts the adhan at prayer times, in a similar fashion to radio stations. In Indonesia and Malaysia, it is mandatory for all television stations to broadcast the adhan at Fajr and Magrib prayers, with the exception of non-Muslim religious stations. Islamic religious stations often broadcast the adhan at all five prayer times.
Prayers take place when light appears at dawn, at noon, at late afternoon, at sunset, and when the night sky appears. In Minneapolis, dawn comes as early as 5:30am and sunset after 9pm during certain times of year.
For those who don't know, azan is the Islamic call to prayer. It is recited from mosques five times a day and lasts around 4 minutes. So that will be around 20 minutes daily. How will a game with such short day-and-night cycles will incorporate azan into it without having it constantly sounding? If there is no azan it'd be pretty immersion breaking because it's a sound that's heard in every Muslim city, town and village for the past 1400 years, no exceptions.
As name say it all... It plays AZAN (Muslims prayer call) for 5 times a day, just set the time as in your country and it plays it automatically. It rests in the system tray and at the prescribed times the Athan sounds and/or displays visual alerts.
Three years ago, city officials worked with the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque to allow the adhan to be broadcast outdoors five times daily during Ramadan. Prayers are said when light appears at dawn, at noon, at mid- to late afternoon, at sunset and when the night sky appears. In Minnesota, dawn arrives as early as before 5:30 a.m. in summer, while sunset at the solstice happens after 9 p.m.
"Sometimes you don't hear the Adhan and you sleep, you cannot wake up and come to the Adhan. Now it's clear, like crystal. You hear and you'll be happy to come and pray and join," said Minneapolis resident Omar Mohamed.
Imam Sharif Mohamed of Dar Al-Hijrah mosque says he would encourage mosques in neighborhoods where most people are not Muslim to refrain from all five calls. For his mosque, he expects this change will attract more people.
These distinctive questions open up another set of inquiry: Is there only one form of the Azan in Indian Islam that is recited five times a day from mosques? What is the status of the loudspeaker in contemporary Islamic religiosity? Is the loudspeaker sacred? Do Islamic scholars consider the effect of the loud noise of the Azan?
The Azan (Adhan in Arabic) is an Islamic call delivered by a muezzin (the person who recites the Azan) from the mosque five times a day. The purpose of the Azan is to invite Muslims for obligatory (farz) prayers, the salat (or what is also called namaz in north India).
Mosques were previously allowed to broadcast the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, three to four times a day to comply with city noise ordinances. Mosques previously could not broadcast the adhan in the early mornings or in the evenings. Muslims pray five times throughout the day.
The Minneapolis City Council passed a resolution last March allowing the broadcast of the adhan year-round. A noise ordinance disallowed broadcasting it over a loudspeaker during the early morning and late night. Islamic prayer times depend on the position of the sun, so the exact times of each prayer varies from day to day.
People often ask, why do Muslims offer 5 times Namaz or prayers each day? Modern society thinks of it as some kind of a burden or pressure. So I would like to accentuate something on this subject today.
Namaz, a word, binds every Muslim on this planet from a thread that connects them to Allah. It offers a wise path to His devotee to connect and know Allah better. Muslims perform five times prayers a day as it is obligatory. If you do not offer prayers, Allah will punish you on the day of judgment.
Offering 5 times Namaz a day is one of the most important pillars of Islam. However, circumstances do sometimes arise where prayer time may be missed. Tradition dictates that Muslims should make up their missed prayer as soon as possible after they miss out.
Prayer times in Anaheim today begin at 5:38 AM AM with the Fajr prayer and end at 6:01 PM with the Isha prayer. Fasting today will last 11 hours and 9 minutes.In Anaheim City, the next prayer is Dhuhr at 11:50 AM.
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A member of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center recites the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Minneapolis. The adhan exhorts men to go to the closest mosque five times a day for prayer, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Abubakar, which hosts some 1,000 men for Friday midday prayers, plans to hold meetings with neighbors before publicly broadcasting publicly the call this summer. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Wali Dirie, executive director of the Islamic Civic Society of America Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, opens rooftop speakers used to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Minneapolis. During the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, the mosque was given a special permit to broadcast the prayer for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. That led to a recent resolution authorizing mosques to broadcast the adhan three times a day. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, left, and Wali Dirie, executive director of the Islamic Civic Society of America Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, center, talk on the roof of Dar Al-Hijrah, where the call to prayer, or adhan, is publicly broadcast, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Minneapolis. The call currently plays three times a day. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
An imam leads Friday prayers at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Minneapolis on Thursday, May 13, 2022. During the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, the mosque was given a special permit to broadcast the prayer for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. That led to a recent resolution authorizing mosques to broadcast the adhan three times a day. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Ahmad Abdi looks toward the back of the mosque during Friday prayer at the Dar Al-Hijrah in Minneapolis on Thursday, May 13, 2022. During the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, the mosque was given a special permit to broadcast the prayer for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. That led to a recent resolution authorizing mosques to broadcast the adhan three times a day. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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