Is it inappropriate to record the call to prayer?
I am currently on holiday in Marrakech, Morocco, and have found that the frequent calls to prayer from mosques throughout the day are quite a core part of life here.
To record some of my experience in this city I would like to take a video of, say, the open markets in the town centre while the muezzin is reciting the call to prayer.
If I take such videos and publish them on social media sites where Muslim colleagues and acquaintances, or perhaps the public, would be likely to see them, is it possible/likely they will take offence?
Is there anything inappropriate, illegal or offensive in the act of recording or publishing this reciting?
There will be nothing in the videos that the average religious westerner would be likely to find offensive, would such videos be taken by foreigners visiting their country. This question is only about the act of recording and publishing videos where the call to prayer is heard, in this instance taken by a non-muslim foreigner.
Best Answer
It is not inappropriate to record the calls to prayer. It is, however, considered a sign of disrespect to cut the recording short before the "muezzin" finishes reciting the call to prayer.
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Can you record the call to prayer?
Typically in modern times, this is done using a microphone: a recitation that is consequently broadcast to the speakers usually mounted on the higher part of the mosque's minarets, thus calling those nearby to prayer. However, in many mosques, the message can also be recorded.Is the call to prayer considered music?
To Inspire And Awe In Muslim countries, the call to prayer is broadcast throughout the city from the tops of minarets; in non-Muslim countries, as a courtesy to neighbors, it is chanted inside mosque walls. The call to prayer is not music, per se. Music is not allowed in the mosque.Can you record in mosque?
You can take photos or shoot videos inside the mosque. However, do not point your camera at believers during their ablution process outside the mosque, nor while they are praying inside the mosque. This is unfortunately the least respected of all rules.Is the call to prayer a prayer?
The call to prayer (adhan) is delivered five times a day by a muadhan to remind Muslims to come to mandatory prayer and leave worldly matters behind.Should we interrupt our prayer if our parents call us? - Assim al hakeem
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I believe Sinead O'Connor has recently done a cover version of it and had it played with full permission on Islamic radio. On her blog she details that she had to use the whole thing with no cuts.
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