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The increasing influence of religion in Syrian society is the result of the failure of the secular regime to implant its ideology in the minds of the people, member of the secular Ba‘th Party, Mus‘ab al -Jindī, says.
Although it has been approved and is waiting for implementation, the unified call for prayer is still controversial. The article discusses the opinions of Islamic scholars and experts on the matter.
The recent plans of the Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] to introduce a single call to prayer has met with huge opposition from the public and a number of Muslim scholars, arguing that the unification of the azān runs contrary to the Islamic sharī‘a.
The Ministry of Awqāf’s plan to unify the Azān [The call to prayer] in Cairo’s mosques has provoked heated controversy in Muslim circles. Opponents to the plan say that introducing a single call to prayer, delivered by a radio network, contradicts the teachings of Islam. The minister of...
The Egyptian minister of awqāf [Endowments], Dr. Muhammad Hamdī Zaqzouq, said the encrypted signal, used to produced a single call to prayer in Cairo’s mosques, would be sent from a broadcasting hub in al-Muqattam and would be scrambled with the signal of the Qur’ān Radio Station.
The minister of Awqāf, Dr. Hamdī Zaqzuq said that the unification of the call to prayers will return the sanctity and spirituality to the call instead of allowing random and noisy voices. He also tried to allay public concern about a possible plan to standardize Friday sermons.
The Islamic calls to prayers will be unified in Egypt through radio receivers’ which will transfer a mu’adhin’s voice from the Azhar mosque to the loudspeakers of thousands of minarets in Cairo and some adjacent suburbs
The government has supplied 4000 recievers to the mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan to unify the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf [endowments] has recently endorsed a proposal to unify the call to prayer that is broadcast from thousands of different loudspeakers in the country’s capital.
Azhar scholars rejected the suggestion to play recorded prayer calls instead of having prayer callers. They said this is not allowed according to the Shari´a.

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