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The call to prayer (adhan)

الأذان

The public call to prayer in its fixed formula: Allahu akbar, the two testimonies, 'hurry to prayer' and 'hurry to success', with an added phrase at dawn.

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The public call to prayer in a fixed form: Allahu akbar, the two testimonies, 'come to prayer' and 'come to success', with the 'prayer is better than sleep' at dawn. {1 2}

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Based on
Qur'an 62:9

People and things also explored

The change of the qibla· The Prophet's Umrah from al-Ji'rana· Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca)· Sa'i (walking between Safa and Marwa)· Tawaf (circling the Kaaba)· Inside Mecca· One Night in Al-Aqsa· Journey to Mecca

Sources

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
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islam.museum contributors. “The call to prayer (adhan)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/practice/adhan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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The change of the qibla

The direction of prayer was changed from Jerusalem to the Kaaba in Mecca, about a year and a half after the Hijra. Al-Samhudi gathers the reports: toward Bayt al-Maqdis sixteen months on al-Bara's account in Muslim (seventeen for Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib), the turn falling in mid-Rajab of year two on the soundest view — at zuhr in the Banu Salama mosque where two rak'as had been prayed, or at fajr in Quba in the Sahihayn's version carried by a runner — while Ibn Hajar makes 'asr the first prayer faced to the Kaaba.