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e. Maghrib prayer at Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia. The Maghrib prayer ( Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers). If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one. According to Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after sunset, following Asr ...
Adhan. The athan [a] ( [ʔaˈðaːn], Arabic: أَذَان, romanized : adhān) is the first Islamic call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin at five times of the day in a mosque, traditionally from a minaret. The adhan is also the first thing recited in the ear of a newborn baby. It is often the first thing recited in a new home.
The Iftar Cannon (Madfa al iftar, Arabic: مدفع الافطار, literally 'cannon for breaking the fast'l) is an ancient tradition that started in Egypt and spread to several surrounding Muslim countries. Every day minutes before the Maghreb adhan, a cannon would fire a single shot to notify people the time of Iftar in Ramadan, when Muslims ...
The qibla is the direction of the Kaaba, a cube-like building at the centre of the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca, in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia. Other than its role as qibla, it is also the holiest site for Muslims, also known as the House of God (Bayt Allah) and where the tawaf (the circumambulation ritual) is performed during the Hajj and umrah pilgrimages.
Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت lit. ' Society of Preachers ', also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") is an international Islamic religious movement focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and secondarily give dawah (calling) to ...
Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed as a guide for humanity with clear proofs of guidance and the standard ˹to distinguish between right and wrong˺. So whoever is present this month, let them fast. But whoever is ill or on a journey, then ˹let them fast˺ an equal number of days ˹after Ramaḍân˺.
United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) are neighbouring countries in the Middle East and Persian Gulf region, and share extensive political and cultural ties. Saudi Arabia maintains an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate in Dubai of the U.A.E., while the U.A.E. has an embassy in Riyadh and a consulate in ...
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. Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five ...