As per the history from Sheikh Ahmed Al Ansari, one of the Haram’s esteemed Muadhins, just before the Isha prayers.
He shared an amazing fact about the longstanding adhan tradition at the Masjid an-Nabawi, reminding us of a time when the call to prayer was delivered in a way we rarely think of today.
Before the advent of microphones and loudspeakers, Muadhins would climb the spiral stairs of the minarets in the King Saud expansion to call the adhan.
This tradition dates back to when voices alone echoed through the holy site, carried by the Muadhins from the minaret peaks.
The King Saud expansion’s minarets are among the oldest, and it was these four towers that once saw Muadhins journeying to their highest points to project the adhan across the vicinity of the Haram.
When the King Fahd expansion was completed, the mosque came to have a total of 10 minarets. However, as technology advanced, the need to climb these towers faded.
After the year 1979 CE (1400 AH), the tradition of scaling the minarets ceased entirely, and microphones took on the task of amplifying the adhan across Makkah.
Today, we see six newer minarets that have never been climbed by a Muadhin, standing as markers of this historical shift.
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