What's the difference between imam and muezzin?

Imam


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Imaum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The best lactogenic antibody response was observed when IMam X IM X 2 route of immunization was used with live BRV as the antigen.
  • (2) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
  • (3) Mohammed Siddique, a 60-year-old imam, and his 24-year-old son, Mohammed Waqar, punished the boy for perceived shortcomings during religious lessons at the Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia mosque, in Birmingham.
  • (4) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
  • (5) His remarks were translated by sheikh Yahya Safi, executive member of the Australian National Imams Council.
  • (6) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
  • (7) But imams such as Suleiman and Mahmoud Abdel Samir, who wrote a PhD tackling this claim, say it is unlikely Muhammad advocated it.
  • (8) In October 2013, in a sign of how bad things had become, the imam of Yarmouk’s largest mosque issued a fatwa that permitted people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys.
  • (9) (Some Muslims in Egypt claim FGM is an Islamic requirement, though imams who have researched the issue say it has no root in the religion, and point out it is practised far less in other countries with Muslim majorities.)
  • (10) Councils call themselves courts and the presiding imams are judges.
  • (11) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
  • (12) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
  • (13) The election of Shady Alsuleiman, our first Australian-born imam, as ANIC’s president is an important resetting point.” Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more Fierravanti-Wells had herself called for a stronger statement from the grand mufti.
  • (14) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
  • (15) A day earlier, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of the Islamic Republic's most venerable imams, treated the weekly televised gathering at Tehran University stadium to a stern anti-American diatribe.
  • (16) The only moment of respite in a morning of violence was when the mosque's imam called the faithful to prayer.
  • (17) This week’s successful targeting of Haji Imam is another step forward in the struggle against Isis and its brand of nihilistic jihad.
  • (18) But now the imam he normally uses to approve his meat is sick with a suspected case of dengue fever.
  • (19) He is elected by the Australian National Imams Council, which brings together about 200 largely Sunni imams.
  • (20) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

Muezzin


Definition:

  • (n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
  • (2) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
  • (3) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
  • (4) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
  • (5) "I don't want my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to live in a mostly Muslim country where Turkish and Arabic are widely spoken, women wear headscarves and the day is measured out by the muezzin's call to prayer," he said.
  • (6) When its population emerges in the evening to promenade and gather outside cafés, you could imagine you were somewhere in Italy – until you hear a muezzin's call from one of the city's many mosques, or fix your eye on a building that looks like it was transplanted from 1950s Moscow.
  • (7) If our suspicions are confirmed, this would be the first time they have done this and it would mark a new phase.” Crouched on a verge amid ash and soot, Sarfi Abdul Hassan, 73, a muezzin from a nearby Shia mosque, known as a Husseiniya, said his grandson had survived the inferno by hiding in a fridge.
  • (8) In other tweets, he made fun of a muezzin (a caller to prayer) and certain religious practices.
  • (9) A muezzin called for prayer and the whole town began to converge on the mosque.
  • (10) We have not had to do major patching up since 2006 when the Aga Khan’s restoration programme began,” says the Djinguereber muezzin, Mahamane Mahanmoudou.
  • (11) Outside the hospital gates a weeping muezzin gathered protesters for a mass prayer to mourn the death of 10 people on Friday, nine of them pro-opposition tribal fighters and one of them a journalist who died after being shot a few days earlier.
  • (12) But nothing now.” J ust before noon, the muezzin’s call rang from the loudspeaker atop the minaret.
  • (13) Delusionally aimed at Muslims in leadership roles, including muezzins and heads of NGOs, this charter assumes that the likes of the Muslim Council of Britain and al-Azhar – the 10th-century university in Cairo (and why not) – will jump at the chance to sign up to such things as denouncing sections of the Qur'an relating to jihad, confirming that "no violent physical jihad operation will be regarded as sacred" (article 6a) and that "no one who chooses to die in such an operation will be acknowledged as a martyr" (article 6c).
  • (14) God is great,” sang the muezzin, and the mourners pressed their foreheads to the asphalt.

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