Azaan
Amazing as it sounds, but fortunately for the Muslims of the
world, It is an established fact. Have a look at a map of the world and you
will find Indonesia
on the eastern side of the earth. The major cities of Indonesia
are Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Saibil. As soon as dawn
breaks on the eastern side of Saibil, at approximately 5:30 am local time,
Fajar Azaan begins. Thousands of Muazzins in Indonesia
begin reciting the Azaan.
The process advances towards West Indonesia
. One and a half hours after the Azaan has been completed in Saibil, it echoes
in Jakarta . Sumatra then follows
suit and before this auspicious process of calling Azaan ends in Indonesia
, it has already begun in Malaysia
.
Burma is next in
line, and within an hour of its beginning in Jakarta , it
reaches Dacca , the capital city of Bangladesh
. After Bangladesh , it has already
prevailed in western India , from Calcutta
to Srinagar . It then advances
towards Bombay and the environment of entire India
resounds with this proclamation.
Srinagar and Sialkot
(a city in north Pakistan
) have the same timing for Azaan.
The time difference between Sialkot , Quetta
, and Karachi is forty minutes, and within this time,
Fajar Azaan is heard throughout Pakistan
. Before it ends there, it has already begun in Afghanistan
and Muscat . The time difference
between Muscat and Baghdad
is one hour. Azaan resounds during this one hour in the environments of
Hijaaz-e-Muqaddas (Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah), Yemen
, United Arab Emirates , Kuwait
and Iraq . The
time difference between Baghdad and Alexandria
in Egypt is
again one hour.
Azaan continues to resound in Syria
, Egypt , Somalia
and Sudan
during this hour. The time difference between eastern and western Turkey
is one and a half hours, and during this time it is echoed with the call to
prayer.
Alexandria and Tripoli
(capital of Libya
) are located at one hour's difference. The process of calling Azaan thus
continues throughout. The whole of Africa .
Therefore, the proclamation of the Tawheed and Risaalat that
had begun in Indonesia reaches the
Eastern Shore of the Atlantic Ocean after nine and half
hours.
Prior to the Azaan reaching the shores of The Atlantic, the
process of Zohar Azaan has already started in east Indonesia
, and before it reaches Dacca ,
Asar Azaan has started. This has hardly reached Jakarta
one and half hours later, the time of Maghrib becomes due, and no sooner has
Maghrib time reached Sumatra , the time for calling Isha
Azaan has commenced in Saibil!
When the Muazzins of Indonesia are calling out Fajar Azaan ,
the African Muazzins are calling the Azaan for Isha. If we were to ponder over
this phenomenon thoughtfully, we would
conclude the amazing fact that there is not even a single moment when hundreds
of thousands of Muazzins around the world are not reciting the Azaan on the
surface of this earth.
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