Muezzin Jive

28/10/05

One of the five pillars of Islam is prayer. Five times each day, you can hear the call of the muezzin throughout every Muslim city and village. I don't know exactly what he says, but I do know it translates, roughly, as "God is big, yo. God is big, and Mohammed is His homey. All y'all git y'all asses out the bed and go pray, yo."

I'm not sure whether Mohammed held loyalties with East Side or West Siiiiiiiiiiiide, but it doesn't seem to matter here. Pretty much everybody stops what they're doin' and heads for the nearest prayer mat --- a little bit of peace in the 'hood, if only for a few minutes. Cool.