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Adhan
Muslim call to worship. It is broadcast by a muezzin (caller) from the minaret of a mosque at the five times of daily prayer, nowadays usually through a loudspeaker system.
The adhan was given in a dream to a companion of the prophet Muhammad. Muhammad asked that it be taught to a convert to Islam, an Abyssinian freed slave called Bilal, who was then the first muezzin.
The words of the adhan include the shahadah (testimony). Each of its phrases is repeated twice.
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