Greatest.

~I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah. (Twice)

~I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger. (Twice)

~Come to prayer. (Twice)

~Come to eternal success. (Twice)

~Allah is the Greatest. (Twice)

~None has the right to be worshipped but Allah. (Once)

The words of the adhan for each prayer are the same but for the Fajr prayers, the following words are added after the "come to eternal success" line:

~Prayer is better than sleep. (Twice)

After The Adhan:

While the adhan is being announced, it should be listened to carefully with due attention. When the muezzin proclaims the words, "come to prayer, come to eternal success," one should say:

"We are helpless to do good or abstain from evil without Allah's help, Most High and Great."

The adhan is usually followed by supplication to Allah and "Iqamah" which signals the start of the prayer.

The Significance:

It is an amazing fact that the words of the adhan have remained unchanged since 622AD, when the Prophet Muhammad asked his trusted companion, Bilal ibn Rabah to give the first adhan. The immortal and eternal call to prayer is still being announced in every mosque of the world five times a day irrespective of its geographical or regional location.

Even more miraculous is the fact that there is not even a single moment in time when hundreds of thousands of muezzins around the world are not reciting the adhan on the surface of this earth.

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