Phrases of Adhān and Iqāmah
Issue No.842- Adhān consists of eighteen parts, and they are as follow:اَللهُ اَکْبَرُ (four times)(Allah is greater than any des c r i p tion)اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لا اِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ (two times)(I testify that there is no god but Allah)اَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللهِ (two times)(I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger)حَىَّ عَلَي الصَّلاةِ (two times)(Hasten to prayer)حَىَّ عَلَي الْفَلاحِ (two times)(Hasten to success and prosperity)حَىَّ عَلي خَيْرِ الْعَمَلِ (two times)(Hasten to the best acts which is prayer)اَللهُ اَکْبَرُ (two times)(Allah is greater than any des c r i p tion)لا اِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ (two times)(There is no god but Allah) As for iqāmah, it consists of seventeen parts like adhān, except that in iqāmah, Allahu Akbar is reduced, in the beginning to twice, and at the end " لا اِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ " to once, and after " حَىَّ عَلي خَيْرِ الْعَمَلِ ", " قَدْ قامَتِ الصَّلاةُ" (i.e., Prayer is certainly beginning) must be pronounced twice.
