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What do muezzins recite before adhan?

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Topic: What do muezzins recite before adhan?

Posted By: Wanderingmupper
Subject: What do muezzins recite before adhan?
Date Posted: 03 July 2016 at 7:06am

I'm traveling in the Middle East and noticed that a few minutes before adhan, muezzins recite something. The speaker quality is really bad so I usually can't hear or understand what they're saying, but someone said they usually recite something from the Quran. However, a few times it sounded like something else.

Can anyone help me understand what they usually say before adhan?

It confused a few new travelers who mistook it for maghrib adhan and began eating for iftar too early.

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Posted By: asep48garut60
Date Posted: 25 August 2016 at 5:52pm

that is read by the muezzin before adhan is the word of Allah in the Qur'an, Surah Al Ahzab 33:56
�Verily Allah and the angels recite shalawat to the Prophet (Muhammad). O ye who believe, recite shalawat to the Prophet and say regards respect to him�.

Shalawat is a special salvation prayer to the prophet Muhammad.

You don't need to be confused because the function of adhan besides a call to shalat, and also as notification to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan (especially for maghrib adhan)