The Voice That Calls Five Times
How the Islamic Adhan Performs the Office of Sraosha, the Zoroastrian Yazata of Prayer eFireTemple “Sraosha, a major deity (yazata) in Zoroastrianism, whose great popularity reserved a place for him in Iranian Islam as the angel Surōsh.” — Encyclopaedia Iranica, entry on Sraosha “I shall invoke Sraosha, mightiest of all.” — Yasna 33:5, attributed to Zarathustra himself “God is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Hasten to prayer.
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How the Islamic Adhan Performs the Office of Sraosha, the Zoroastrian Yazata of Prayer eFireTemple “Sraosha, a major deity (yazata) in Zoroastrianism, whose great popularity reserved a place for him in Iranian Islam as the angel Surōsh.” — Encyclopaedia Iranica, entry on Sraosha “I shall invoke Sraosha, mightiest of all.” — Yasna 33:5, attributed to Zarathustra himself “God is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Hasten to prayer. Hasten to success.” — The Adhan, called from every minaret five times daily The Persian Angel Who Walked Into Islam There is a feature of Iranian Islamic angelology that has not been adequately accounted for in the comparative-religion literature.
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Yasna · Gathas · Avesta · Quran
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Mary Boyce