Released on = November 23, 2006, 5:36 am

Press Release Author = Organization Pray In Time Islamic Information center

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = Pray In Time Islamic Information Center presents the first
public BETA version of its Google Maps based interactive namaz prayer times
calculation tool.

Press Release Body = The modern muslims are getting used to using a religious
software and information services (e.g. sms) to get a right time for prayer (salat),
that is regarded as an important part of muslim's life.
Accurate calculations of muslim prayer times for every location is a non-trivial
task, because the time of prayer depends on the sunrise and sunset times and
geographical location. The sunset and sunrise is different in different locations
and change throughout a year. Historically, prayer timing was determined by Islamic
religious scholars and the prayers were informed about start of a prayer by the
muezzin from a minaret.
Now in the most of modern cities there it is difficult for muslims to hear an azan
(call to prayer) that makes alternative way of informing prayers about prayer
timetable more and more important.
One possibility is to use Azan Islamic software for mobile and PCs, sms azan
services that created a market for religious software developers. With the start RSS
era this service became available globally for free. It only requires an RSS reader
(such as IE 7.0) and hence can run on virtually any PC, PDA, cell phone and any
other computer device.
To help muslims finding locations they live in or going to visit remaining informed
about correct prayer timming now they can use Google maps.
At the moment the tool has a limited functionality. The Google Maps interface lets a
user to drag the marker, representing the prayer\'s geographic position, to the
required location and click on it to request a calculation. A user is to provide the
time zone information (GMT offset) and indicate if the daylight saving time has to
be employed (see Namaz Prayer Times Calculation Method Reference). Single click to
the \"calculate\" button redirects to the results of the calculation.
In a few days Pray In Time is going to add geographic location interpretation
(country, region and a closest habitable place identification). As Pray In Time
Islamic Information Center develops into a full featured location-based Islamic
Information Directory, Pray In Time Islamic Information Center invites users to
provide islamic resources information for inclusion on Worldwide Interactive Muslim
Map.

Salat (also salah, namaz, solat, solah, solaat, solaah, salaat, namaaz and other
spellings) (Arabic: صلاة, Qur\'anic Arabic:
صلوة, Persian: نماØning to pray, or to
bless, generally refers to prayers that Muslims offer to God (Arabic:Allah) and most
commonly refers to the five dailyritual prayers in Islam. It is one of the Five
Pillars of Islam in Sunni Islam, and one of the ten Branches of Religion in Shi\'a
Islam. As such, it is compulsory (fard) upon every Muslim. It is quite commonly
known with the Persian word namāz (नमाज़
نماز) in Iran auth Asian languages such as Urdu, Hindi and
Turkic languages
Adhan (Athan, Azaan, azan and other spellings)
(أَذَان) is the Islamic call to prayer, recited
by the muezzin. The root of the word is ʼḏn \"to permither derivative of
this word is uḏun, meaning \"ear\". Adhan is called out by the muezzin from a
minaret of a mosque five times a day (Sunni Islam) or three times a day (Shi\'a
Islam) summoning Muslims for fard (mandatory) salah (prayers). There is a second
call known as iqama that summons Muslims to line up for the beginningof the prayers


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Contact Details = Name Abu Yusuf
Organization Pray In Time Islamic Information center
Address: Bayerstrasse 31, 80335, Munich
Zip code 80335
Tel: +49 89 975 - 5 79 06
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