When I visited Israel, one of the first things I heard wasthe Muslim
call to prayer sounding over Jerusalem.
As dinner in the back room wraps up,
the call to prayer sounds.
Not exact matches
This time, when they started driving again, one of the brothers produced a CD with music that Danny said
sounded like a Middle Eastern
call to prayer.
He wears a ring that says in Arabic «There is no god but Allah» and with his own mouth has stated «The most beautiful
sound I have ever heard is the Muslim
call to prayer» NO Christian would EVER say such a statement because it BRAKES number one in God's top ten... «I am the LORD thy God»
In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the
call to prayer as «one of the prettiest
sounds on Earth at sunset.»»
He wears a ring that says in Arabic «There is no god but Allah» and with his own mouth has stated «The most beautiful
sound I have ever heard is the Muslim
call to prayer» NO Christian would EVER say such a statement because it BRAKES number one in God's top ten... «I am the LORD thy God Thou shalt have no other gods» Allah is Satan.
«The morning
call to prayer is the most beautiful
sound I have ever heard.»
From Dianna: You seem
to have a pretty unusual faith journey, but one thing I notice throughout each of the four major steps (Catholic - Hindu - Anglican - Orthodox) is the inherent beauty in each of those worship styles - Catholicism has a very beautiful set routine of liturgy, the Hindu
call to prayer is (
to me) one of the most beautiful
sounds in the world, and Anglican services tend
to be quite beautiful as well.
If you play Jimmy Hendix's «Vodoo Chile» during the mullahs
call to prayer... when they sync up it
sounds pretty awesome...
Then I heard the two strange
sounds I still associate with evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then, from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin,
calling the Muslim faithful
to evening
prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary,
to holy war.
This coming from a person that was born into the muslim faith / ideology who said that the muslim
call to prayer was the most beautiful
sound he has ever heard!
And as for that annoying
call to prayer, why should a vastly Christian or even secular society be forced
to endure that horrible
sound, and why can't the Muslims find a way
to do it that does not impede on my right not
to have
to hear it.
Obama himself says «My Muslim faith» «the muslim
call to prayer is the most beautiful
sound» «america is not a christian nation» Does that
sound Christian
to any of you.
The muslim faith comment was a slip of the tongue, and he said the
call to prayer was «one of the prettiest
sounds on Earth at sunset.»
We also pipe in
sounds and smells: the
call to prayer in Arabic, diesel fumes, even the body odor of the guy next
to him.
Because when you're ten years old and getting ready for bed, on a night that's just like any other night, no darker or starrier or more silent or more full of smells than usual, with the familiar
sound of the muezzins
calling the faithful
to prayer from the tops of the minarets just like anywhere else... no, when you're ten years old - I say ten, although I'm not entirely sure when I was born, because there's no registry office or anything like that in Ghazni province - like I said, when you're ten years old, and your mother, before putting you
to bed, takes your head and holds it against her breast for a long time, longer than usual, and says, There are three things you must never do in life, Enaiat jan, for any reason... The first is use drugs.
Yet, this is a country of contradictions: despite the ostensible unimportance of Islam in Turkish society and its total exclusion from the business of government, every day at 5 p.m. the country reverberates
to the haunting
sound of the muezzin's
call as 40 million Turks make their way
to prayers.
We remember how crystal clear the water was — and the exotic
sounds of the Muslim
call to prayer coming from across the bay.
Evening was starting
to settle on the small island of Gili Trawangan, and as the sun started
to set, the
call to prayer started
to sound.»
Within the azan (
call to prayer), «AAAAAAAAAAAH» is leading
to the word «Allah», the lengthening of the words and
sounds by the singer / muezzin is a variable characteristic.