[ SECRET POST #2244 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2244 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Confession thread

[badass_tiger]

I still can't memorise what to answer to the line of the azan 'Prayer is better than sleep' because I rarely wake up early enough to practice it whenever I do memorise it. /shame

On a somewhat related note, I cried yesterday because of the song 'The Prophet's Hands'.

Re: Confession thread

[al28894]

Huh, do you have an alarm clock by your bedside? Can you configure your phone to wake you up?

And don't worry, I once cried to Mahir Zain's "Palestine Will Be Free"

Re: Confession thread

[oroburos69]

Link? :D

And possibly explain what an azan is? *super curious now that I live between 4 different mosques*

Re: Confession thread

[badass_tiger]

The azan is the call to prayer. It signals that you can start delivering the prayers (if you hear it before sunrise, it's Fajr, if it's around early afternoon, it's Zuhr, etc.) The call for each prayer is the same, except for the dawn prayers, which adds the line 'As-salatu khayru minna an-nawm' which means 'Prayer is better than sleep'. After every line of the azan that we hear, it's obligatory to 'reply' (basically just say it aloud). Most lines you reply with exactly the same phrase, except for 'Come to prayer' and 'Come to success', which you reply with 'No power and no strength except with Allah', and also the aforementioned line added to Fajr azan (the answer to which, like I said, I can never remember).

The Prophet's Hands. Childhood song, but listening to it as an adult, it takes on a fresh meaning. Some days, I look around me and wish that I could give it all up to go climb into the past and live with the Prophet (and that's a quote from another song!). It would be such an honour for me to have ever personally known a man like that.

Re: Confession thread

[oroburos69]

That's so beautiful. It's so...deep! The lyrics actually mean something, and it's so beautiful...oh look, you got me sniffling too. :P

Thanks so much for sharing!

I hear those! They sound so pretty. Do they have special ones on certain days? Sometimes I think they're saying something different, but I'm always asleep in the mornings, so it's not that.

Re: Confession thread

[badass_tiger]

That's nasheed for you. A whole genre of music with dozens of musicians, dedicated to singing about the one religion.

Oh, you're probably hearing Quran recitation! Some mosques will have public Quran recitations a few minutes before azan, to get you in the mood to pray. Or it might be the khutbah. On Fridays, it's compulsory for Muslim men to go to the mosque and pray Friday prayer instead of Zuhr prayer, where a man is assigned the role of 'khatib' and gives the khutbah, which is a sermon. Usually, it's given first in Arabic, and then in the local language. I think it's the equivalent of a Sunday sermon in church. Fridays are considered the best day of the week, and before translating the sermon into the local language, the khatib will sit down, and any good prayers you make in that time will be granted to you.