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scot47
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 Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:33 pm Post subject: That 4 AM Prayer Call |
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How do you cope with it ? It never bothered me but I never lived too close to a Mosque with a High amplification loudspeaker !
This - and shop closing at prayer times - is top of the hate list for a lot of newcomers to Arabia Felix. |
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cultofpersonality
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| I just sleep through it...it has never really bothered me! |
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cnthaiksarok
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That's my wake-up and exercise alarm.  |
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ogio
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In the short time I have been here I have developed the ability to sleep through the 4am racket and yet wake up a few hours later to a much quieter alarm.
I've added this skill to the others marked "Things in the KSA that will be zero use to me when I leave" |
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sicklyman
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| I leave my AC on every night of the year. It acts like white noise and kills all traffic, street and mosque noise stone dead. Course, in the winter it's on 'warm' but whatever the weather, it's on. |
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mashkif
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:44 am Post subject: Re: That 4 AM Prayer Call |
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| scot47 wrote: |
How do you cope with it ? It never bothered me but I never lived too close to a Mosque with a High amplification loudspeaker !
This - and shop closing at prayer times - is top of the hate list for a lot of newcomers to Arabia Felix. |
Managed to tune it out quite quickly. Incidentally, I always found it hypocritical (though that's religion for ya) how people who refuse to use toothpaste, because their "prophet" didn't, have no problem using loudspeakers, automobiles, or computers.
But anyway...
What DID annoy me were the mwazins who would clear their throats and even hack out some phlegm right into the mic before belting out their spiel >.< |
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plumpy nut
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plumpy nut
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:23 am Post subject: Re: That 4 AM Prayer Call |
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bigdurian
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Not an issue for me. I very rarely wake up. If I am up, it normally acts as a good signal that it's time to call it day and go to bed.
Also agree about the clearing the throat. Why do that over the mic!! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Anybody who has been to Jakarta, Indonesia and stayed at the Tatar Hotel or the Jalan Jaksa area knows that the mosques do the same thing at 4:00 AM there also. It's not just Saudi Arabia. |
And Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait... etc... etc...
It is a constant in Muslim countries, and to be honest, I liked it. I found it useful to tell the time each day... and many muezzins have wonderful voices. Fortunately I never had a mosque right next door, so I was able to use either the AC or my "white noise" machine to mask the sunrise call (it is NOT a time of the clock - sunrise, noon, sunset, dark) and it wasn't a problem.
One of my favorite memories of noisy Cairo was that moment of unique quiet just before Iftar during Ramadhan - almost the only silence ever in that noisy city - like the city was holding its breath waiting to hear the call so that they could break the fast. On the next block was a small neighborhood mosque in an underground parking garage. He had no sound system. Just his voice... a marvelous voice... he was nearly always the first to call... and he was soon joined by the dozens of other mosques within hearing. I used to get a cup of tea and wait out on my balcony... waiting with the rest of the city. I have always been sorry that I didn't have the ability to record it back in the 80s.
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Not a good idea to go and confront the congregation at 4 am and ask them to turn the volume down ? Word on the street is that a misguided teacher tried that recently and got a frosty reception. |
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CANDLES
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| I found it eerie when I first came to KSA, but afterwards took it in my stride. Funnily enough when you don't hear it, you miss it- all 5 of them! |
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mahdi1432
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I cope very well.
I'm the one who does it for my nearby mosque. Alhamdulillaah.
plumpy nut can you please restate your statement in a clear manner? I did not understand what you are trying to convey. |
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jargonscott
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| bigdurian wrote: |
Also agree about the clearing the throat. Why do that over the mic!! |
Oh man. Though I have experienced that a number of times, the most memorable one was heard while strolling on a beach (sand with trash) in Jubail. After hacking and coughing throughout the call, the guy forgot to turn off the mic at the end and proceeded to broadcast a 5 minute phone call. |
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Mr. Leafy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| When I first arrived in another country which has many mosques the school sent one teacher along with the driver to pick me up at the airport. The whole way back into the city she was trying to convince me how awful it was living with mosques. I assured her I was well travelled and had lived abroad before and was familiar with it. She just went on and on and I kept taking it in stride. Finally she got very exasperated and said, ‘You just don’t understand! It wakes everyone up!’ I looked at her and calmly said, ‘Yes, that’s the point’. My ‘welcoming committee’ spent the next six months snarking at me. |
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