The call to prayer heard from minarets five times daily in all
Moslem lands is as follows: The muezzin cries it in a loud voice
and always in the Arabic language: “God is most great! God is
most great! God is most great! God is most great! I testify that
there is no god but God! I testify that there is no god but God!
I testify that Mohammed is the apostle of God! I testify that
Mohammed is the apostle of God! Come to prayer! Come to prayer!
Come to prosperity! Come to prosperity! God is most great! God
is most great! There is no god but God!” In the call to early
morning prayer the words “prayer is better than sleep” are added
twice after the call to prosperity. (Text.)--SAMUEL M.
ZWEMER, “The Moslem World.”
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