Shadee Elmasry – 8 Adhan & Iqama The Call to Prayer

And one of the greatest symbols of Islam

is the event. It's something that everyone hears

whenever they go to the Muslim world and

is associated,

very closely to the religion of Islam. It's

also the summary

of the entire religion as it begins with

praising Allah and then uttering the testimony of

faith,

and it's announced publicly.

Now the Adhan and Iqam are things that

are specific to the men,

so it's something that only men will ever

do and the adhan is done essentially to

gather people. However, if you're in your house

or if you're praying alone somewhere and you

wish to call the adhan because you love

the adhan, there's no harm in that. There

are a couple of different ways to do

the adhan. You may hear the adhan,

said and the iqama

said in slightly different manners and that's all

fine based upon what the scholars,

took from the companions.

Now the psychology behind it is also something

important to know and it's that it's the

idea that

nothing just comes suddenly and Allah doesn't spring

anything upon you. Rather, you have the Adhan,

it gets you in the mood for the

prayer, it reminds you, it it notifies you

that the time is in. It also helps

you, manage your time. You do something from

this Adhan to this Adhan for example and

people used to meet each other at certain

Adhan's, okay, and at the masjid.

And then the iqamah is telling us that

the imam is here and the prayer is

about to begin, so we get into our

rows. And then the imam says

some word of reminders such as straighten your

rows, fill the gaps, turn to Allah with

pious hearts, things like this in any language

and that's when you know that this is

it. So you have ultimately end up with

3 phases of the prayer. But first, let's

take a look at the wording of the

Adhan.

The Akama as well has different wordings, so

let's take a look at this wording.

Now as you travel the world and travel

different Masajid, you might hear hear different variations

of the iqama and all these are valid

and there are insignificant differences. For example, you

may hear kadakamatasalah

being said twice. You may hear the entire

iqamah

being said exactly like the adhan. Alright. Everything

repeated,

two times and that also has its validity.

So there in our law, we have flexibility.

Someone might be saying, oh, I wish everything

was just one way, but that's a sign

of sort of rigidity in the law. And

the prophet

he taught things differently at different times,

sort of giving us a

hint that there's flexibility.

So our religion is firm yet flexible at

the same time and you don't want something

to be so, too firm that it's rigid

and it breaks. Okay? So, not adaptable.

Alright? Whereas, you don't want something to be

so flexible like, oh, just call it say

whatever, you know, comes to your heart then

you have chaos. Alright? So you need some

structure

and so what we call this is muruna

which is flexibility. We have firmness,

we have structure, but we have flexibility and

the adans and the the different,

variations

is one of the many reflections of that

in the sacred law.