Hadith 116

(The books) ‘Al Ilal’ and ‘Al Uyoun’ – From Abdul Wahid Bin Muhammad Bin Ubdous, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Quteyba, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan among what he reported, ‘From Al-Reza-asws (in argumentation): ‘If he says, ‘Inform me about the Azaan, why have they been Commanded with it? ’
It will be said, ‘For many reasons. From these is that it would be a reminder for the forgetful and an alertness for the heedless, and an introduction for the one who is ignorant of the timing and is too busy from the Salat, and that would be a call to worship the Creator being desirous in it, acknowledging to Him-azwj with the Oneness, openly announcing the Eman with Al Islam, a proclamation for the one who had forgotten it, and rather he is called ‘Muezzin’, because he proclaims Azaan of the Salat’. If he says, ‘Why does he begin it with the Takbeer (Allah-azwj is Greatest), before the ‘Tahleel’ (There is no god except Allah-azwj)? ’
It will be said, ‘Because he intends to begin with His-azwj Mention and His-azwj Name, because the Name of Allah-azwj the Exalted in the Takbeer is in the beginning of the sentence, while in the ‘Tahleel’ the Name of Allah-azwj the Name of Allah-azwj is in the end of the sentence. So he begins with the sentence in which the Name of Allah-azwj is in its beginning, nor in its end’. If he says, ‘Why has it been made to be double, double (sentences)? ’
It will be said, ‘Because the repetition in the ears of the listeners would be an emphasis upon them if anyone had forgotten from the first, he would not be forgetful from the second, and because the Salat is of two Cycles, two Cycles, for that reason, the Azaan is double, double’. If he says, ‘Why has the Takbeer been made to be in beginning of the Azaan as four? ’
It will be said, ‘Because the beginning of the Azaan begins at heedlessness, and there isn’t any speech before it. It alerts the listener to it, so that is made as an alertness for the listeners to what is after it in the Azaan’. If he says, ‘Why have the two testimonies made to be after the Takbeer? ’
It will be said, ‘Because beginning of the Eman, rather it is the Tawheed and the acknowledgment to Allah-azwj Migh