• Woman moved by the Muslim call to prayer
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[media][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF47Ec5wBK4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF47Ec5wBK4[/URL][/media] I have never been one for religion, but regardless if the motive this speaks more about human unity than any religious doctrine.
"Beutiful sounds!" [b]AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH[/b]
I was in dubai a couple of years ago and the call to prayer is pretty surreal
I've always liked the call to prayer, for some reason.
And I thought the bells from the 3 churches around my neighborhood was annoying enough
This gives me a reason to post French comedy. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtNoiW6pBrQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;44895336]I've always liked the call to prayer, for some reason.[/QUOTE] You wouldn't if you lived in a country which had other religions and is "secular/sickular" like mine is. Them being allowed do the call of prayer has resulted in my local temple (on the other side of the street) deciding to go into an arms race with the mosque over which one can be most obnoxious. In the morning, at the crack of dawn, I have to hear this call to prayer from the mosque and almost immediately after, I have to hear the temple belt out devotional sounds. Nobody will dare say a damned thing because "how dare you encroach on my religious freedoms". It's a fucking living nightmare, I tell you. Oh, and the "Loves of Jesus Christ" group the next lane over has also decided to get in on the loudspeaker action - thankfully, the worst they can do is on Christmas and even then, they give me free cookies to apologize for any inconvenience due to their Mass, so they have bought my silence with chocolatey home baked goodness. Although if that Ms. Mascarenhas pinches my cheeks one more goddamn time I will go mental.
When I was on holiday in Turkey, my hotel was right next to a mosque. The call to prayer isn't that moving when it happens right next to you at 4 am in the middle of the night.
[QUOTE=Lexinator;44895317]I was in dubai a couple of years ago and the call to prayer is pretty surreal[/QUOTE] You get used to it after awhile. It's actually kind of relaxing. What's more annoying is the drag racers you regularly hear skidding down the road at about 2 in the morning.
Its really really damn beautiful, the whole atmosphere is loaded with pure energy. Went out on the roof every evenin when i spent a week in Kuwait, just to hear them sing.
It was a bit annoying in Egypt however. Mainly because there were just poles with speakers everywhere, and only one guy singing through all of them at like 5 in the morning. It's their country though so I can't complain.
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;44895878]You get used to it after awhile. It's actually kind of relaxing. What's more annoying is the drag racers you regularly hear skidding down the road at about 2 in the morning.[/QUOTE] When I was a kid, I used to get so annoyed when they would pause the 2 o' clock cartoons on Chanel 33 (I forget what they call it now, EDTV? DTV?) and I would be left stuck for about 5 minutes with the TV just stuck with this fancy looking calligraphy and this dude sounding like the arab version of vincent price reciting the prayer. When you mess with my Tom & Jerry cartoons as a 9 year old, shit gets [I]personal.[/I]
This becomes annoying as fuck when you witness it day-in day-out. The call to prayer sounds lovely, but when you have 4 mosques blaring it out in the local area, it just becomes an amalgamation of irritating noises and ends up giving you a headache. It's like the mosques want to out-compete each other or something, it's dumb.
Yeah alright love its a bit of chanting.
Try calling this beautiful at 5am. Every. Day. Oh, you've had a long day and want to sleep? Let me sing a song to help you with tha -MUINWAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA-
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;44895336]I've always liked the call to prayer, for some reason.[/QUOTE] I think it's the idea that members of a society can agree to shut down in respect to something larger than themselves is what makes it so beautiful. Compare to: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uK5uz7d-Oo[/media]
All these Muslim propoganda videos really tick me off. Sugar coating the hell out of all of it. Also lmao at the comments, any sort comment not praising the video is followed by hatred. I also live in a majority Muslim neighborhood, 5am every fucking morning without fail, this loud obnoxious noise wakes me up. (I have to work night shift until 2am every day). And to top it off I live 5 blocks away from the mosque, so they feel the need to amplify the volume so much that it's loud as fuck to make sure EVERYONE hears it, and I mean absolutely EVERYONE. (I'm used to living in the city so I can deal with sleeping through city noise, but christ this shit still wakes me up).
it is an ethereal experience, but every morning it must get old very quickly. [editline]25th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Vasili;44896790]Yeah alright love its a bit of chanting.[/QUOTE] To be moved to tears by sound alone is pretty astonishing m8. Or maybe you think crying is just for the feeble.
[QUOTE=AK'z;44903087]it is an ethereal experience, but every morning it must get old very quickly.[/QUOTE] After a while it just becomes unnoticeable and part of the general soundscape.
[QUOTE=Azza;44900689]All these Muslim propoganda videos really tick me off. Sugar coating the hell out of all of it. Also lmao at the comments, any sort comment not praising the video is followed by hatred. I also live in a majority Muslim neighborhood, 5am every fucking morning without fail, this loud obnoxious noise wakes me up. (I have to work night shift until 2am every day). And to top it off I live 5 blocks away from the mosque, so they feel the need to amplify the volume so much that it's loud as fuck to make sure EVERYONE hears it, and I mean absolutely EVERYONE. (I'm used to living in the city so I can deal with sleeping through city noise, but christ this shit still wakes me up).[/QUOTE] Shocking news flash: Religious organisations like to make sure that people following that religion can hear them! Have you never lived near a church? The bells are just as loud if there's a wedding going on, and yeah it's not 5 times every day but it still happens.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44903142]Shocking news flash: Religious organisations like to make sure that people following that religion can hear them! Have you never lived near a church? The bells are just as loud if there's a wedding going on, and yeah it's not 5 times every day but it still happens.[/QUOTE] Heaven help you if you live in one of those backwater towns where churches are still allowed to ring the bells every half hour starting from seven in the morning. On the plus side, you won't really need an alarm clock anymore.
Never heard a call to pray, in my neighbourhood there is 3 churches which are about 5 minutes away from me The only thing I hear in my neighbourhood at 2am is the faint sounds of cars driving, some dickhead hooning or police sirens
[QUOTE=V12US;44903222]Heaven help you if you live in one of those backwater towns where churches are still allowed to ring the bells every half hour starting from seven in the morning. On the plus side, you won't really need an alarm clock anymore.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't call my city backwater but churches still ring every half hour here afaik. Also at night there's a watchman who yells every hour from the Cathedral's tower :v:
Ugh.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44903142]Shocking news flash: Religious organisations like to make sure that people following that religion can hear them! Have you never lived near a church? The bells are just as loud if there's a wedding going on, and yeah it's not 5 times every day but it still happens.[/QUOTE] While I have nothing against it, church bells don't ring that early at all. I'd understand if people got tired of this - and honestly I think you would too.
[QUOTE=snookypookums;44895488]You wouldn't if you lived in a country which had other religions and is "secular/sickular" like mine is. Them being allowed do the call of prayer has resulted in my local temple (on the other side of the street) deciding to go into an arms race with the mosque over which one can be most obnoxious. In the morning, at the crack of dawn, I have to hear this call to prayer from the mosque and almost immediately after, I have to hear the temple belt out devotional sounds. Nobody will dare say a damned thing because "how dare you encroach on my religious freedoms". It's a fucking living nightmare, I tell you. Oh, and the "Loves of Jesus Christ" group the next lane over has also decided to get in on the loudspeaker action - thankfully, the worst they can do is on Christmas and even then, they give me free cookies to apologize for any inconvenience due to their Mass, so they have bought my silence with chocolatey home baked goodness. Although if that Ms. Mascarenhas pinches my cheeks one more goddamn time I will go mental.[/QUOTE] I much rather the buddhist chanting here though, they chant it a way that makes it sound so robotic. Like during my grandpa's funeral, they went on for hours! Fucking incredible. [video=youtube;R0AImOc4wpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AImOc4wpE[/video] Christian monks chant are pretty damn incredible as well.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;44903772]I much rather the buddhist chanting here though, they chant it a way that makes it sound so robotic. Like during my grandpa's funeral, they went on for hours! Fucking incredible. [video=youtube;R0AImOc4wpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AImOc4wpE[/video] Christian monks chant are pretty damn incredible as well.[/QUOTE] One of the good things about Buddhist temples is that they generally tend to be (atleast, in major cities of India) in out of the way places so even if they did do all of this, it wouldn't be as much of an inconvenience apart from the fact that it sounds,well....pretty metal :v: . On the other hand, fun fact - after my mom heard me listening to Static X - Skinnyman in NFS:MW, she's convinced they nicked one of the South Indian's most beloved devotional songs - the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprabhatam"]Suprabadham[/URL]. I'll leave it up to the FP to see if there's a similarity between the two. Hear the cadence, in particular. [video=youtube;cNTkez069QU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTkez069QU[/video] [video=youtube;LkzNn7AMkdg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzNn7AMkdg[/video] Btw, that last video - this is the thing that Hindu temples play at the crack of dawn down south. :suicide:
I live in the country with the largest number of Muslims in the world and every day at 6AM they always do their call to prayer. Its good because I don't need to buy an alarm clock. Pretty neat stuff.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;44903772]I much rather the buddhist chanting here though, they chant it a way that makes it sound so robotic. Like during my grandpa's funeral, they went on for hours! Fucking incredible. [video=youtube;R0AImOc4wpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AImOc4wpE[/video] [B]Christian monks chant are pretty damn incredible as well.[/B][/QUOTE] Damn straight. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiK8F2NviTc[/media] I'm beginning to think the woman was moved to tears by the chanting because she's never really had a religious experience before.
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