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The adhan, or the Islamic call to prayer, is an important religious tradition in Qatar. Broadcast from mosques across the nation, the adhan is recited five times daily to announce the prescribed prayer times: Fajr (dawn), Duhr (midday), Asr (afternoon), Maghrib (sunset), and Isha (night). These times are determined by the position of the sun ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
Qatar National Day: اليوم الوطني لقطر: National Day of Qatar. [2] [3] 1st, 2nd, 3rd Shawwal: Eid al-Fitr: عيد الفطر: Commemorates end of Ramadan. [2] [3] 10th, 11th, 12th Zulhijjah: Eid al-Adha: عيد الأضحى: Commemorates Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son. Also known as the Big Feast (celebrated from the ...
The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles . If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one.
Simaisma is situated on the eastern coast of Qatar. It forms the northernmost extension of the southern sector of Qatar's interior plain region. The area around Simaisma, as part of this southern sector, has a generally flat surface that gradually increases in elevation from towards the south and west, with heights ranging between 11 metres (36 ...
Adhān, Arabic for 'announcement', from the root adhina, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures. [1] [2]It is commonly written as athan, or adhane (in French), [1] azan in Iran and south Asia (in Persian, Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi), adzan in Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Malaysian), and ezan in Turkish, Bosnian ...
An Ordnance QF 25-pounder used as the Iftar Cannon at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. The Iftar Cannon (Madfa al-ifṭār, Arabic: مدفع الافطار, literally "cannon for breaking the fast") is a long-held tradition that began in Egypt and spread to several surrounding Muslim countries.
Asr prayer at the Kaaba. The Asr prayer (Arabic: صلاة العصر ṣalāt al-ʿaṣr, "afternoon prayer") is one of the mandatory five daily Islamic prayers.. The Asr prayer consists of four obligatory cycles, rakat.