Call to Prayer (Adhan) أذان

The call to prayer in a dream signifies the pilgrimage (Hajj) during the months of pilgrimage. It may also signify tale-bearing, and announcing something that stirs up movement, relocation and preparation for war. The call to prayer may also signify theft. The call to prayer may signify high rank, office, elevation, and a word that is heeded, and a wife for an unmarried man. The call to prayer may also signify true news. If he calls the prayer facing away from the qibla, or calls it in a language other than Arabic, or has a blackened face as well, he may be spreading lies and tale-bearing, and this may also signify heretical innovations and rebels (Khawarij) in that town. The caller to prayer (muezzin) is one who calls to good, a broker, one who conducts marriage contracts, the king's messenger or his chamberlain, or the crier in the army. If he gives a complete call to prayer and it is in the months of pilgrimage, it may signify the pilgrimage. If a woman calls the prayer in a dream from the minaret of the congregational mosque, a great heretical innovation will appear in the town. If little boys call the prayer, ignorant people or rebels will seize power, especially if the call is at the wrong time.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer from a minaret, if he is fit for office, will obtain an office as far as his voice reached and carried. If he is not fit for office, his enemies will multiply and he will gain the upper hand over them. If he is a merchant, he will profit in his trade. The call to prayer may signify supplication, kindness, acts of obedience and doing good, and it signifies safety and rescue from the schemes of Satan.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in a well: if he is in the lands of unbelief, he will call people to the way of religion; if he is in the lands of the Muslims, he is a spy, or perhaps a heretic calling people to his innovation.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer, if he is a religious person he enjoins what is right; if he is a sinner he will be beaten.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer and no one answers him belongs to a people of wrongdoers.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer on his neighbor's roof is betraying him with his wife.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer on top of the roof of the Kaaba is a heretic, or one who reviles the Companions of the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer while lying down, his wife backbites people and hurts them with her tongue; and if he is unmarried he will marry.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in his marketplace is a spy for thieves.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer at the ruler's gate will bear true witness. The call to prayer in alleys and markets signifies a good life. It is also said that whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in a caravan will be accused of theft. The call to prayer also signifies parting from a partner.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in a ruined place, it will be rebuilt and many people will be in it.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in a bathhouse will catch a fever. The call to prayer, or raising the voice in the remembrance of God Most High, signifies drawing close to great men, especially if it is in a beautiful voice and people listen to it attentively.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer over a gathered group of people is calling people to the truth while they are wrongdoers. The call to prayer may signify gaining understanding in religion, and the call to prayer may be a summons to some matter on behalf of the ruler.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer but does not remember the “God is Greatest” and “There is no god but God” will gloat over his enemy.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer in the sky and the people have answered him is a man who calls people to good and they answer him, and perhaps everyone who answered will perform the pilgrimage.

Whoever sees that he called the prayer once or twice, then gave the iqama (second call) and prayed an obligatory prayer will be granted a Hajj and an Umrah.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer on a hill will obtain an office from a foreign (non-Arab) man; and if he is not fit for office, he will come upon a profitable trade or a prestigious craft. If he sees that he left something out of the call to prayer, added to it, or changed its words, he will wrong people in proportion to the addition or omission.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer on a wall is calling men to reconciliation. If he calls the prayer on top of a house, its people will die.

Whoever sees a boy calling the prayer, it is a vindication of his parents from lies and slander.

Whoever sees that he is calling the prayer for amusement and play will lose his mind. Whoever hears a call to prayer in the market, it is the death of a man from among the market people. Whoever calls the prayer on a rubbish heap is calling a fool to reconciliation, and it will not be accepted from him.