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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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According to the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly for Wales, there was a failure to collaborate sufficiently and in gathering crucial information during the planning of the multi-million pound Red Dragon Project at the St Athan Defence Aviation Repair Agency site.
Criticism for hangar handling by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Hundreds of jobs are expected to go from St Athan next year when the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (Dara) is closed by the MoD.
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Judge Sharon Armstrong said the 10-year minimum sentence she imposed was somewhere between what Athan would have gotten had he been convicted as a juvenile in 1982 and what the state's sentencing guidelines now recommend.
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