The difference is that some mosques use some shitty ass loud speaker and the guy doing the call can’t hold a note. Like it’s fine if they only do it once a week but a daily call is just way too much. Like church bells are annoying too but at least the sound is way more pleasant. Seriously if Muslims in the west want to be more accepted they need to take into account that they live in a non-Muslim majority country and non-muslims do not need the call to prayer and many find it annoying as hell. Acceptance and tolerance is a two way street, can’t just force other people to accept your traditions if you aren’t willing to accommodate to their traditions too. Like even many churches in my western country have stopped ringing the bells frequently.
Yeah and the morning call to prayer can be a bit much when you’re trying to sleep in.
It feels like it should be possible to have an app on your phone that will make the all of the religious sounds you need to hear, so not sure why it needs to be blasted throughout a neighbourhood. In the past when people had no way of knowing when it was time to go to the Mosque, having a sound everyone in a town could hear made sense, but you really don’t need to wake up the entire neighbourhood at 6am to let a small number of people in that community know it’s time to pray.
Seriously if Muslims in the west want to be more accepted they need to take into account that they live in a non-Muslim majority country and non-muslims do not need the call to prayer and many find it annoying as hell.
Now, the theological arguments on this are very complex (all Qurans must have the original arabic in order to stop arguments over translation, etc), but it would be interesting to hear the call to prayer in english.
I now deeply want to hear the call to prayer sung in English in a heavy Minnesotan accent.
Any accent really. LA, Texan, Georgian (state, not country; you know what, either).
The difference is that some mosques use some shitty ass loud speaker and the guy doing the call can’t hold a note. Like it’s fine if they only do it once a week but a daily call is just way too much. Like church bells are annoying too but at least the sound is way more pleasant. Seriously if Muslims in the west want to be more accepted they need to take into account that they live in a non-Muslim majority country and non-muslims do not need the call to prayer and many find it annoying as hell. Acceptance and tolerance is a two way street, can’t just force other people to accept your traditions if you aren’t willing to accommodate to their traditions too. Like even many churches in my western country have stopped ringing the bells frequently.
Yeah and the morning call to prayer can be a bit much when you’re trying to sleep in.
It feels like it should be possible to have an app on your phone that will make the all of the religious sounds you need to hear, so not sure why it needs to be blasted throughout a neighbourhood. In the past when people had no way of knowing when it was time to go to the Mosque, having a sound everyone in a town could hear made sense, but you really don’t need to wake up the entire neighbourhood at 6am to let a small number of people in that community know it’s time to pray.
Something related and complex is that in turkey, the call to prayer used to be in turkish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_adhan
Now, the theological arguments on this are very complex (all Qurans must have the original arabic in order to stop arguments over translation, etc), but it would be interesting to hear the call to prayer in english.
I now deeply want to hear the call to prayer sung in English in a heavy Minnesotan accent. Any accent really. LA, Texan, Georgian (state, not country; you know what, either).
Fajr is too damn early!