Muezzin

Mr. Finkelstein rughtly points out that the Islamification of Britain vis-a-vis the call of the muezzin is yet another brick in the creation of a non-Christian state. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Good Mohammedans pray five times every day, and there is a church officer called a muezzin (mu-ez'-zin), who gives them notice of the hour for prayer. ❋ Addison B. Poland (1885)

Ms Michaeli's so-called muezzin Bill would actually ban the use of such loudspeakers in any place of worship, but is clearly directed at mosques used by Israel's mainly Muslim million-plus Arab minority. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With pride, Kaseem would read the translation of the call, which had been read by millions around the world: Before any prayer session, a man called the muezzin climbs to the top of the mosque’s minaret and sings God is great four times, followed by I testify there is no other God but God twice. ❋ Brad Thor (2005)

 At one time the blind men of the city were employed to call the muezzin from the minarets, lest strange male eyes perceived an unveiled woman such are the wonders of modern science that nowadays the minaret towers are fitted with loudspeakers which do the job far more effectively, and our poor, supported by the State, despise such modest work. " ❋ Jordan, Penny (1997)

The '' 'muezzin' '' in [[Islam]] is a person who leads the call for five daily prayers ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was Umar al-Khattab, who was to be the second caliph after the Prophet's death, who suggested that a person call the others to prayer, to which the Prophet instructed a black Muslim youth, Bilal, to make the call to prayer (hence the name Bilal in some languages becoming synonym to the word 'muezzin'). ❋ Unknown (2008)

"He says the Islamic" muezzin "cry should be ­allowed to ring out just like Christian church bells. ❋ Gandalf (2010)

For one of the works, he painted the first muezzin, an African slave who called worshippers to prayer. ❋ Tripti Lahiri (2011)

This is the impression everywhere produced by this spirit of the sandy wastes; this is the voice of the desert the muezzin cries from the high turrets of the city. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

He heard someone speaking Arabic in a familiar cadence; in the distance, a muezzin was calling the dawn prayer. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Morocco's sultry Soultana—whose sneakers sport pink shoelaces—often takes a break if the muezzin issues the call to prayer while she is performing. ❋ Robin Wright (2011)

Outside the hospital gates a weeping muezzin gathered protesters for a mass prayer to mourn the death of 10 people on Friday, nine of them pro-opposition tribal fighters and one of them a journalist who died after being shot a few days earlier. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As the sun sets, the heat of the day gradually subsides, dogs bark and the muezzin leads the call to prayer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The muezzin may call for prayer and still you may not find anybody in the mosque, but you can never break the fast [before dusk] publicly during Ramadan .. you would be regarded as a heretic or the like in the eyes of all .. even to bar regulars and to those who never pray .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like the morning glory of a meat minaret from which the muezzin sings out the call to ... well, a more fleshly form of reverence than prayer. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)