Shadee Elmasry – 8 Adhan & Iqama The Call to Prayer
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The speaker explains that the Adhan is a symbol of Islam, and that it is a momentary thing that only men will do. The message of the Adhan is to gather people, to manage time, and to desire something that is flexible and not rigid. The speaker uses examples of different wording in different religious frameworks to explain the concept of flexibility and structure in the sacred law.
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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.