Kind: captions Language: en [Music] AC [Music] alhamdulillah the chapter that deals withan and and these are two commonly used terminologies when it comes to Salat so what is aan aan linguistically is to announce Allah says in the Quran which translates to that and it is an announcement it an aan from Allah and his Messenger to the people so this is the linguistic definition of aan to announce but in Islamic uh or legislative um definition it's an announcement consisting of specific words that the time for prayer has begun so it is to announce to the people that the time has begun while is a announcement calling the people to begin the prayer specific words that the prayer is now about to start so the first one aan is for announcing that the time is due is the actual congregation or the individual who is about to begin the prayer when was it prescribed it was prescribed in the first year of hij as per the Hadith of Abdullah Z who said that the prophet Alat wasam instructed the people to make a Clapper so that it could be beaten to announce or to summon the people to prayer he says that he saw a man in a a vision in a dream and he said to him would you sell me your Clapper and the man said what are you going to do with it he said I'm going to summon the people for prayer and the man said should I show you something that is better and as all the companions want what is best Abdullah Z said of course so the man said to him you say and he repeated the phrases of thean allahar allahar Allah and then he came after a while and he said when you you want to call the people to the prayer itself which means that the prayer is about to begin you say the following and he gave him the phrases of the and then he woke up so in the morning he went and said to the prophet Alat wasam about his dream and the prophet said that this is a true Vision inshallah go and teach it to Bal so that he would call the people to prayer because he has a more beautiful and softer voice than yours so he taught it to bil and Bal gave the aan Omar may Allah be pleased with him heard the aan and came rushing out of his home to the prophet sallallah alai wasallam and he said to him by Allah I saw the same dream oh prophet of Allah and in the dream I was also taught the same aan so the prophet said am all praise be to Allah and this is how the dream that was a true Vision became the announcement for prayer all over the world where you would not find a single area a single place on Earth that the aan is not being called Round the Clock Subhan Allah all over the globe the same phrases the the same aan the same words this is what unites the Muslim all over the place and the virtues of the aan is to announce that this Village this town this city is inhabited by Muslims the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam whenever he wanted to invade a country or a region he would ask his companions not to do so until it was the time for Salat and if they heard aan they knew that these are Muslims and they would be left alone so this beautiful call for aan what are some of the virtues of it there are virtues that can't be counted you cannot put it into material the prophet saidat if people knew what there is of virtue in the call to prayer and the first draw and could find no way except drawing lots for them they would draw Lots meaning that if the people knew the reward in calling for the aan or the reward in standing in the first draw they would fight over it until to solve the problem they would draw the lots to know who would qualify to call call for the aan or to step in the first row then they would have done that unfortunately nowadays you enter masjids and the Masjid has like 50 or 60 people waiting for the prayer and you ask has anybody called the Adan they said no no the MU did not come so why didn't any one of you step forward said I can't Subhan Allah they're shy or they're ashamed of calling the aan and this shows how weak the Iman in people's hearts uh uh is and likewise in the first St most people fight for the last row even if they say a spot if they see a spot in the first row they start please go ahead no no you go ahead and invite others to move forward and neglect this great reward also the prophet saidat that the MU those who call for the aan will be the people with the longest necks on the day of Resurrection and this can be understood metaphorically in the sense that the Arabs would call a person with a long neck meaning that he has honor and he has dignity and he has a good reputation among the people that makes him stand out in a crowd so some say that it is not literally that they would have long neck necks like giraffes for example rather that they will be identified on the day of Resurrection among all the billions and trillions of people of being people of Honor for their beautiful job of calling the aan and Allah Knows Best [Music] for [Music] for