Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The call to prayer before dawn is a remembrance in the form of a call to prayer ]
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Rather, we are of the opinion that the call to prayer before dawn is a remembrance and a call in the form of the call to prayer. What is the legitimate call to prayer by announcing the arrival of the time?
That the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said that Bilal calls at night and did not say he calls the call to prayer, and so he said in Ibn Umm Maktoum. He calls out of suspicion.
He was blind, so he did not call until he was told, “It has become morning,” meaning it is almost morning. The narrator said, “There was as much between Bilal’s call and Ibn Umm Maktum’s call as this one descended and this one ascended, so he called it a call for this possibility, I mean Ibn Umm Maktum’s call to prayer, for Eloquence in the Arabic language matches the wording in what was previously said about Bilal that he calls at night, and what we have said is supported by the hadith of Ibn Umar that Bilal called the call to prayer before dawn came, so Ibn Umar called