Google Map for interactive islamic prayer time calculations - first beta released for testing

The modern muslims are getting used to using a religioussoftware and information services (e.g. sms) to get a right time for prayer (salat),that is regarded as an important part of muslimÂ's life. Accurate calculations of muslim prayer times for every location is a non-trivialtask, because the time of prayer depends on the sunrise and sunset times and geographical location. The sunset and sunrise is different in different locationsand change throughout a year. Historically, prayer timing was determined by Islamicreligious scholars and the prayers were informed about start of a prayer by themuezzin 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 prayertimetable more and more important.One possibility is to use Azan Islamic software for mobile and PCs, sms azanservices that created a market for religious software developers. With the start RSSera 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 anyother computer device. To help muslims finding locations they live in or going to visit remaining informedabout correct prayer timming now they can use Google maps.At the moment the tool has a limited functionality. The Google Maps interface lets auser to drag the marker, representing the prayer's geographic position, to therequired location and click on it to request a calculation. A user is to provide thetime zone information (GMT offset) and indicate if the daylight saving time has tobe employed (see Namaz Prayer Times Calculation Method Reference). Single click tothe "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 IslamicInformation Directory, Pray In Time Islamic Information Center invites users toprovide islamic resources information for inclusion on Worldwide Interactive MuslimMap.

Salat (also salah, namaz, solat, solah, solaat, solaah, salaat, namaaz and otherspellings) (Arabic: صلاة, Qur'anic Arabic:صلو& #1577;, Persian: نماÃning to pray, or tobless, generally refers to prayers that Muslims offer to God (Arabic:Allah) and mostcommonly refers to the five dailyritual prayers in Islam. It is one of the FivePillars of Islam in Sunni Islam, and one of the ten Branches of Religion in Shi'aIslam. As such, it is compulsory (fard) upon every Muslim. It is quite commonlyknown with the Persian word namāz (नमाज& #2364;نما&# 1586;) in Iran auth Asian languages such as Urdu, Hindi andTurkic languages Adhan (Athan, Azaan, azan and other spellings)(أَ 84;َان) is the Islamic call to prayer, recitedby the muezzin. The root of the word is ʼḏn "to permither derivative ofthis word is uḏun, meaning "ear". Adhan is called out by the muezzin from aminaret of a mosque five times a day (Sunni Islam) or three times a day (Shi'aIslam) summoning Muslims for fard (mandatory) salah (prayers). There is a secondcall known as iqama that summons Muslims to line up for the beginningof the prayers

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