When the massacre was yet proceeding, a Muezzin ascended to the steeple of the Armenian church and began to call the faithful to prayer.
A great tower is still standing, from which, five times a-day, the Muezzin calls Mahommedans to prayer, marks the site of the great Christian seminary of the fourth century.
Five times a day the voice of the muezzincalls them to prayer.
The voice of the Muezzin chanting the sunset call to prayer--the prayer of Moghreb--seemed only to emphasize the vast silence.
Go then, bring down the infidels that have stood in the minaret above, where the Muezzin calls to prayer;" sharply called Abdalla, and waved an arm towards the tower where Dicky and Renshaw were.
Then, piercing and painfully musical, came the call of the Muezzin from the turret of the mosque a quarter of a mile away.
The only danger would lie in the crowd discovering us in this holy spot, where the Muezzin calls to prayer, and giving us what for, before he could interfere.
Valid, the son of Abdalmalek, was the first who erected a minaret or turret; and this he placed on the grand mosque at Damascus, for the muezzin or crier to announce from it the hour of prayer.
On a still evening, when the Muezzin has a fine voice, which is frequently the case, the effect is solemn and beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom.
If I have good luck (which is extremely improbable) I would make the Muezzin No.
It is the hour the Muezzin calls," said David gently.
George had witnessed prayers so often that he no longer gave attention to the muezzin calling at eventide from a minaret.
Beneath the vaulted roof can be heard the voice of an invisiblemuezzin announcing the sunset from some wooden minaret.
No sooner had the caller taken his leave than orders were sent to have the sweet-voiced muezzin restored to his former position in the vicinity of the consulate.
The muezzinhad a musical voice, and the consul enjoyed hearing the call to prayer in the summer evenings.
When I said to him that the voice of the muezzin in the neighboring mosque was not so clear as it might be, he told me the following incident in his father's life: The French consul in Tripoli lived near a mosque.
In the mosque near my house there was a muezzin who gave the daily call to prayer in a voice that went to the heart of the hearer, and it would not have been strange if he had won my allegiance to Islam.
Morning and evening the imprisoned pee-wit awakens the echoes with his ratchetty call, and every sunset is commemorated by the sincerely plaintive utterances of the muezzin mentioned above.
Somewhere, not far away, every evening the faithful are summoned to prayer by a muezzin with the most musical and pathetic voice I have heard in all Islam.
As soon as the muezzin calls to evening prayers, I lay aside my skin, betake myself to the mosque, perform my ablutions, and return thanks to Allah.
The night slowly descended, the glow of the southern sky grew ever paler on the half-moons of the minarets, till they grew gradually quite dark and the cry of the muezzin resounded from the towers of the mosques.
The matin voice of the muezzin is regularly heard, and the Jama el Musjid is believed to be the abode of guardian angels, who stretch the strong pinion of protection over the heads of the Faithful.
Had we kept on trusting the azymites, whether Roman cardinal or apostate Emperor, a muezzin would ere long, perhaps to-morrow, be calling to prayer from the dome of Hagia Sophia.
One of them is a muezzin by profession; and if he can but catch sight of the sun, he will never miss the five hours of prayer.
Muezzin calls from the Mecca mosque; thither we will now proceed, and afterwards transact our business.
But I had little time to observe more; the sonorous and melancholy call of the Muezzin had ended, and the few attendants for the afternoon prayer had spread their carpets and commenced their devotions.
With the aid of the reprobate muezzin I discovered that Citt Mary is held in the westerly wing of the palace, and guarded by Hakem and a few other eunuchs.
And the time flew rapidly, and the muezzin from the minaret of the garden mosque began to chant invitation to the evening prayer, "Allah-hu-Akbar!
For the latter part of it the old man had slept peacefully, like a child; and as the muezzin was crying the invocation to early prayer, and the sentence, "Prayer is better than sleep!
Then Bilal became the devoted servant of Mahomet; and, in fulfilment of a dream, he was made the First Muezzin to sound the Adzan, the Call to Prayer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muezzin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
