The word · Worship
أَذان
Adhan
The call announcing that a prayer time has entered, given aloud before each obligatory prayer.
Also written · Azan · Athan · Adan · Ezan · Azaan · Adhaan · call to prayer · Muezzin · Muadhdhin · Bang
The meaning
What Adhan means in Islam
It was taught to the companions in Madinah after they discussed how to gather people, and Bilal was its first caller. Its lines declare Allah's greatness, the testimony of faith, and the summons to prayer and to success. The Fajr adhan adds the line that prayer is better than sleep. The one who calls it is the muezzin.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
- Fath Makkah: Idols FallThe Path · chapter 42
- Surah Ash-SharhSurah 94 · The Opening of the Breast
- Ash-Shafa'a: Maqam MahmudThe Path · chapter 67
Words that sit beside it
- IqamahThe second, shorter call given immediately before the congregation starts the prayer.إِقامَة
- Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, IshaThe five obligatory prayers: dawn, past midday, afternoon, just after sunset, and night.الصَّلَواتُ الخَمْس
- Jama'ahPraying together behind one imam, which multiplies the reward of the prayer many times over.صَلاةُ الجَماعَة
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- HaydMenstruation, during which prayer and fasting are lifted and intimacy is paused.حَيْض
- Laylat al-QadrThe night in Ramadan that the Qur'an calls better than a thousand months.لَيْلَةُ القَدْر
- QiyamThe standing part of the prayer, where al-Fatihah and other verses are recited.قِيام
- SiwakA twig used to clean the teeth, recommended before prayer, wudu, and on waking.سِواك
- TaqsirTrimming the hair rather than shaving it, the alternative way to leave ihram.تَقْصير