Bilal: The Pleasant Call to Islam
In the history of Islam, there are heroes of faith, men and women whose lives inspire us to be better people, better Muslims. Many of them were Companions of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and they experienced the growth of Islam right from the beginning. Many of them suffered hardships and great persecution for the sake of Islam, the Message of Allah. Their impeccable characters an...

Have you ever heard the Call to Prayer?
If you live in a Muslim country, then you hear the call to prayer often throughout the daily routine. But here it might be better to use the verb "listen" rather than the verb "hear".... You hear the call to prayer five times a day, but do you listen to it? This call to prayer has become so much a part of our daily lives that we merely hear it and therefore we may not be aware of its true meaning...

Where in the world is the first Call to Prayer recited?
Do you know where the first Call to Prayer is read every morning? Where the first iqama is recited and who prays the first daily prayer?   For millions of years the sun has first sent its rays to this place; it is the Kamchatka Peninsula which lies to the east of Japan and under Russia, flowing like a hook onto the ocean… The first people to see the rising sun are those in Kamchatka.   They are t...

What is the Call to Prayer?
The word adhan is an Arabic word in the infinitive form with the dictionary meaning of "to inform, to announce, to call"; when this word is used for the recitation from the minarets of mosques at the time of compulsory prayers, it is the special announcement made to the believers five times a day. The word muezzin, which comes from the same root, means "one who reads the adhan", while mi'zene me...