Manual

for the
World Wide
Azan Clock
Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3
2. Contact ...................................................................................................................................... 5
3. Description of the components ................................................................................................. 6
3.1 Description of the LCD ................................................................................................... 6
3.2 Components of the wall clock AL-121 ........................................................................... 7
3.3 Components of the table clock AL-123........................................................................... 7
4. Important hint............................................................................................................................ 7
5. The first steps ............................................................................................................................ 8
6. Clock and alarm functions ...................................................................................................... 10
6.1 Entering date and time ................................................................................................... 10
6.2 Choosing calendar type : Gregorian <=> Hijri.............................................................. 10
6.3 Alarm ............................................................................................................................. 10
6.3.1 Adjust alarm time and activate/deactivate.......................................... 10
6.3.2 Finishing and interrupting the alarm sound........................................ 11
6.4 Daylight saving time...................................................................................................... 11
6.5 12/24 hour display ......................................................................................................... 11
6.6 Temperature display in °Celsius oder °Fahrenheit........................................................ 11
7. Backlight ................................................................................................................................. 11
8. Battery charge indicator.......................................................................................................... 11
9. Prayer times............................................................................................................................. 12
9.1 Overview........................................................................................................................ 12
9.2 Setting the city ............................................................................................................... 13
9.2.1 Choosing a city from the data base..................................................... 13
9.2.2 Entering a location manually.............................................................. 13
9.3 Choosing the school of law ........................................................................................... 14
9.4 Setting delta value.......................................................................................................... 14
9.5 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls............................................................................... 15
9.6 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls seperately ............................................................. 15
9.7 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls globally................................................................. 15
9.8 Auto alarm ..................................................................................................................... 15
9.9 Displaying data .............................................................................................................. 16
9.9.1 Displaying the prayer times................................................................ 16
9.9.2 Displaying geographical coordinates and the timezone...................... 16
9.9.3 Qibla : The praying direction to Mekka ............................................. 17
9.10 Using the removeable compass ................................................................................... 17
10. Schools of law....................................................................................................................... 19
1. Introduction
Congratulations to your new World Wide Azan Clock.

With this clock you hold a technical high quality and by design sophisticated clock,
that, besides the functionalities of usual digital alarm clocks, comes with the ability
to remind you at the prayer times, pretended by the Koran, by playing build in azan
songs.

Regardless if you bought this clocks as one of the wall clock variants or as one of
the table clock variants, you have in your hands the first clock in the world, that
posesses such an extensive functionality. Furthermore it is at the time of printing this
manual the only existing one of this kind.

Perhaps you saw similar products on the market and ask yourself, what makes the
World Wide Azan Clock so singular. To explain this, we give you a short overview
about the meaning of prayer times.

The Islam instructs all religious muslems to pray to God/Allah five times a day.
These times are well defined and depends on positions of the sun over every day.
The prayer times depends on the following occurences: The time of the morning
dawn, the time of midday (the moment, the sun passes the local Meridian in south),
the time when the length of thes shadow of an object is a defined ratio to the shadow
length of this object at midday, the sunset and the time of evening dawn. When
exactly these events will be reached – e.g. how bright the sun light has to be at time
of morning and evening dawn, which ratio shall be for the shadow length (Afternoon
pray) – is a matter of interpretation. Therefore there exists so called school of laws,
that define these events exactly.

Furthermore there are big differences in the correct prayer times resulting by the
declination of the axis of the earth in respect to it's ecliptic (about 23 ½ °, but
changing from year to year) and the generally political and not geographical defined
time zones. By this the prayer times of adjacent may differ by several minutes.
Additionally the times will change because of the irregularities of the used calendars
and the orbit of the earth.

All existing products don't fullfil these complex requests. They only consists of a
data base of prayer times that suffers by the following restrictions:

• Only about 450 cities world wide are stored.

• All times are calculated regarding only one school of law. Therefore they are
only significant for religious people of one special culture region (at this time
exclusively for arabian muslims).
• Es sind nur Zeiten für ein Jahr gespeichert. Damit gelten sie genau genommen
nur für genau dieses Jahr bzw. angenähert nur alle 4 Jahre (Schaltjahreszyklus).
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In contrary to this, the World Wide Azan Clock is world wide the first and in the
moment only product that has the following attributes:

• All times are calculated just in time.

• The build in data base stores the coordinates of 6484 cities in 178 countries that
can be selected by entering a 4-digit code into the clock. The main criterium
choosing the cities was the percentage of muslim people in the population.
• In spite of the very good coverage by the ability to select more than 14 times
cities as in comparable products, you have the ability to get calculated the exact
prayer times for every location on earth by entering it's geographical
coordinates.
• There are in total 8 school of laws in two variants (Hanafi and Shafi)
implemented. So you can choose out of 16 variants of school of laws. By this
nearly every muslim of every nationality and every cultural region are reached.
• Regarding that the times are not stored but gets calculated, you have the actual
prayer times every year. The correctness of the times are checked up to the year
2100
• Additionally the so called Qibla, the direction to Mekka, will be calculated for
every city of the data base or the manually entered city. The qibla gets
displayed graphically on the LCD using a compass like look and gets displayed
in new degrees. With its value and the removeable compass that is integrated
into you clock, it is easy for you to determine the direction to Mekka.

All this features makes the clock a real World Wide Azan Clock.

Because of the complexity of the clock, on the next pages you get a detailled
instruction how to use your clock. In the appendix you will find a list of code
numbers orderd by countries and cities.

Now we hope you will use and enjoy new new World Wide Azan Clock.

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2. Contact
Visit our 3-language (english, turkish, german) homepage on

http://www.weltgebetsuhr.de

or

http://www.ezansaati.de

Here you get detailled information about our products. Furthermore links to relevant
web sites and an online prayer time calculator.

Hier erhalten Sie ausführliche Informationen rund um unsere Produkte, desweiteren

Links auf relevante Internetseiten, sowie einen Online-Gebetsrechner.

If you have questions, remarks or suggestions, feel free to e-mail me at:

[email protected]

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3. Description of the components

3.1 Description of the LCD

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8 9 10 11 12 13 14

1 Name table clock 12 Temperature/Latitude

2 AM symbol 13 Prayer time/Longitude

3 Alarm symbol 14 Azan activation symbol

4 Busy symbol 15 Prayer type

5 PM symbol 16 Delta

6 Compass 17 Daily alarm

7 Sun (Gregorian calendar) 18 School of law

8 Moon (Hijri calen) 19 City code

9 Battery capacity 20 Daylight saving time

10 Date 21 Global Azan On/Off

11 Day of week 22 Time/Qibla in degrees

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3.2 Components of the wall clock AL-121

1 Big LCD 6 Volume control

2 Small LCD 7 Plug in hole for adapter

3 Button panel 8 Removeable compass

4 Wall mount hole 9 Battery case

5 Clock stand 10 RESET button

3.3 Components of the table clock AL-123

1 LCD 4 Speaker 7 Volume control

2 Keypad cover 5 Compass 8 Plug in for Adapter

3 Keypad 6 Battery case 9 RESET

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4. Important hint
Because of the many functionalities of your World Wide Azan Clock and the
complex adjusting steps it is not always obvious in which mode the clock works at a
given time. Therefore the button NORM exists. Pressing this button will always
switch the clocks internal state back to the normal clock mode (display mode)
without making any changes permanent. (This is not due for adjustments of the user
defined city).

5. The first steps

In this chapter the first steps you should do in order to let the clock display the
correct prayer times for your city. We strongly advise to work through the following
points step by step to avoid later surprises.
1. Adjust daylight saving or normal time

Becausse the World Wide Azan Clock can be used world wide (as its name says)
and there exist different rules for the periond of daylight saving time depending
on the countries it is not possible to automatically calculate if at a given time
daylight saving time has to be used or not. Because of the fact that this
adjustment has effect on all times (actual time, alarm time, prayer times, auto
alarm) it is necessary to make this adjustment before any other adjustment.

New delivered clocks are adjusted to normal time. If for you now is daylight
saving time, you have to press the DST button until in the upper right part of the
LCD the text „DST ON“ gets visible. If you have normal time, this text must not
be visible.

2. Adjusting time and date

Next you should adjust the actual time and date. Before doing so, assure that the
clock works with the gregorian calendar because it is not possible to adjust the
date while the clock works in Hijri calendar. You see the calendar mode by the
visibility of a symbol in the bottom left corner of the LCD. A sun icon shows
that the gregorian calendar (sun calendar) is adjusted; a moon symbol shows that
the Hijri calendar (moon calendar) is selected. To switch to the gregorian
calendar press the button G/H until the sun symbol gets visible.

Afterwards press the CLOCK button. The flashing of the hour part of the actual
time shows that you now can adjust the actual hour by pressing UP and DOWN
buttons. After selecting the actual hour, pressint SET switches the mode to
adjust the minutes of the actual time. This is also done by pressing UP and
DOWN. Pressing SET again enables you to adjust the date. First you can select

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 the current year. Pressing SET lets you adjust the month number and pressing
SET once more lets you adjust the day number. In order to save your settings
you have to press the CLOCK button again. In order to get the accurate seconds,
you should wait pressing CLOCK until your reference clock (TV, watch, ...)
changes the minute. This is because setting the time and date resets the seconds.

After storing the time and date you have to wait some seconds because the clock
now automatically calculates all the prayer times for the current day. During the
calculation the symbol „Cal“ is visible in the upper left corner of the LCD.

3. Adjusting the city

The next step is to inform the clock for which location the prayer times shall be
calculated. In the beginning we suppose you to select a city from the build in
data base. This is because adjustment of user defined locations is a little more
comples. In the appendix you will find a sorted list of all 6484 stored cities
together with their 4-digits city code. First find the city your living in or, if your
city is not listed, a city next to your home city and remember the 4-digits city
code. To enter this code, press the button CITY. The flashing of the first digit in
the upper right corner of the LCD shows that you now can change the thousands
of the city code by pressing UP and DOWN. Pressing SET one ore more times
lets you step through the single digits (hundreds, tenths, ones). To store the
entered city press CITY finally. The now visible symbox „Cal“ again shows you
that the clock calculates the appropriate prayer times for the just entered city.

4. Displaying the prayer times

In the bottom right corner of the display you now see the next actual prayer time
(or time of sunrise = shuruq). To show all other prayer times press the button
AZAN one or more time. Attention: Do not press down the AZAN button for
more than 1 second because then the clock switches to adjusting mode for azan
related data.

5. Turning on the prayer sound

By pressing the button TALK you can listen to the next prayer song (the one
related to the next prayer time visible in the display)

6. Activation of the prayer sounds

When new delivered, all prayer times and their according auto alarms are
deactivated. To activate the prayer times press the button AZAN ON/OFF until
the symbol (( o )) in the upper right corner of the LCD gets visible.

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 Congratulations!

You have done the basic adjustments and from now on will be reminded
automatically for the prayer times that are correct for your home city by playing
related prayer songs. In order to make further settings like school of law, delta
values, auto alarm or adjusting arbitrary locations by their coordinates see the
appropriate chapters in this manual.

6. Clock and alarm functions

6.1 Entering date and time

To enter the current date and time press the button G/H in order to enter the calendar
modus; G/H stands for Gregorian/Hijri.

In calendar modus you switch the components by pressing once or more the SET
button. Here you can choose the components calendar type, hour, minute, year,
month and day in this order. The actual active component you recognize by the
flashing digits.

With the buttons UP and DOWN you can choose the values.
Attention
Is the calendar in the mode displaying the Hijri date (the islamic moon calendar), it
is not possible to change the date. This means, you can only change the gregorian
calendar and then switch to Hijri if you like (see next paragraph).

Durch erneutes Betätigen der G/H-Taste werden Ihre Einstellungen gespeichert und
der Kalendermodus verlassen; das Drücken jeder anderen Funktionstaste beendet
den Kalendermodus ohne Änderungen zu übernehmen.

6.2 Choosing calendar type : Gregorian <=> Hijri

The World Wide Azan Clock has the ability to display the current date by two
calendar types: Once as the usual gregorian calendar (a sun based calendar) and as
Hijri calendar (a moon based calendar). In order to switch between these types press
the G/H button. If you see a flashing sun symbol in the lower left corner of the LCD,
the calendar actually displays the gregorian date. A flasing moon symbol informs
you that the date is displayed as Hijri. By pressing UP and DOWN you can switch
the current calendar type.
Pressing G/H again stores the changes. Pressing any other funcion key discards the
changes you have done.

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6.3 Alarm

6.3.1 Adjust alarm time and activate/deactivate

To adjust the alarm time press the button DAILY; Daily stands for daily alarm.
You select the components by pressing the SET-Button one or more times. So you
choose the components alarm on/off, alarm hour, and alarm minute. The active
component you can see by the flashing digits or the alarm symbol.
By pressing the buttons UP and DOWN you change the values. If the alarm is
activated, you can recognize at the flashing symbol in the upper left corner of the
LCD.
Pressing DAILY again stores your changes. Pressing any other function key lets you
leave the alarm mode without saving the changes.

6.3.2 Finishing and interrupting the alarm sound

When the alarm rings you can interrupt it by pressing any key besides DAILY. The
alarm then will ring again after 5 minutes. It will be repeated up to 2 times. Pressing
Daily will immediately turn the alarm off.

6.4 Daylight saving time

By pressing the DST button you switch between summer and normal time. If the
daylight saving time is activated, you can see by the text DST ON in the upper right
corner of the LCD. When DST is activated there will be one hour added to the actual
time and to all prayer times.
We knowingly decided not to have the daylight saving time automatically switched
bye the clock itself, because there exists many different definitions of when DST
beginns and ends. Furthermore because the World Wide Azan Clock makes it
possible to enter arbitrary geographical coordinates, it is not possible to assign these
coordinates a defined time zone.

6.5 12/24 hour display

Pressing the SET button on its own (while in normal clock modus) you can switch
between 12 and 24 hour display. You can see if you are in 12 hour display by a
visiple AM or PM in LCD.

6.6 Temperature display in °Celsius oder °Fahrenheit

Pressing the TEMP button switches the temperature display between °C (Celsius) or
°F (Fahrenheit).
The actual temperature gets sampled (measured and displayed) once a minute.
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7. Backlight
Pressing the LIGHT button you can initiate the backlight of LCD. After pressing this
button, the backlight remains 3-4 seconds and then automatically turns off.

8. Battery charge indicator

The red LED besides the buttons is lighted when the batteries becomes low. You
then either should switch the batteries or, if you bought rechargeable batteries,
recharge them.
The recharging of rechargeable batteries can be done inside the clock itself by just
plugging in the enclosed AC/DC adapter.
Attention
Due to the fact that the World Wide Azan Clock does not have a permanent memory
(CMOS), the batteries only should be exchanged when the clock is connected with
extern power. This is because all stored data can hold not longer than 15 seconds.

9. Prayer times

9.1 Overview
In order to calculate arbitrary prayer times it needs the following data:
The geographical coordinates of your town. Whereas the geographical latitude has a
big influence to the length of a day (just think of Mittsommernacht in nothern parts
of Sweden where the sun partly in the year doesn't even sets), the geographical
longitude defines the (time) distance to the universal time (GMT) in London.
The actual time zone. This is neccessary due to the fact that it is not calculated by
the geographical longitude but depends on country and region borders. For example
there are 3 different time zones in USA whereas in whole China there exists only
one timezone (that of Peking) in spite of the fact that China exceeds over 6 time
hours. In contrast to this, Portugal uses the Middle European Timezone (MEZ) even
that it is located west of London.
The school of law. This also can not determined automatically because it does not
depends on country borders but on cultural groups.
To regard local rules, there also is the possibility to add a fixed amount of minutes to
every prayer time, the so called Delta. This delta can be choosen from -9 to +9
minutes.
Furthermore there exists a so called auto alarm. This makes it possible to get an
alarm a special amount of minutes before ore after the prayer sounds starts. This can
be used, for example, to get reminded 10 minutes before every prayer time in order
to prepare the praying. The auto alarm can be choosen from -30 to +30 minutes.
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Finally the prayer call and the associated auto alarm can be activated or deactivated
seperately for every prayer time typ or for all at once.
Hint
After every adjusting that needs the prayer times to get recalculated, the symbol (zZ)
is visible for 4 – 7 seconds. During this period, all times for the selected day are
recalculated. The needed time to perform the calculation depends on the choosed
geographical latitude. As nearer as the location is to the north or the south pole, as
longer the calculation takes time because of the necessary multiple calculations
(iterations) needed to achieve the desired accuracy.

9.2 Setting the city

There are two ways to set a city. If the desired city is in the integrated data base, you
simply enter its associated 4-digit code number. The second way is by entering its
geographical coordinates manually. This can be done down to an accuracy of 1/100°

9.2.1 Choosing a city from the data base

The integrated data base provides you with the data of 6484 cities from 179 coun-
tries world wide in order to calculate exact prayer times. For every city there is
stored the geographical latitude and longitude (accuracy 36 arcseconds) and the legal
timezone.
In the appendix of this manual you will find a list, sorted alphabetically by countries
and cities, with a 4-digit code number for every city.
Press the CITY button in order to enter the adjusting mode. By pressing SET one or
more times, you switch between the different decimal digits of the code number
(thousands, hundreds, tens and ones). The actually selected digits flashes in the
display. Pressing UP or DOWN lets you change the actual digit.
Pressing CITY again stores your changes, whereas pressing any other function key
leaves the adjusting mode discarding your changes.

9.2.2 Entering a location manually

To enter the coordinates of an arbitrary location first press CITY. Directy after this
press MANUAL. This selects the city code to the user defined number “0“.
Pressing the SET button one or more times you step through the components.
Pressing UP and DOWN changes the actual (flashing) value. The components are
hour of timezone, minutes of timezone, integer part of latitude, decimal fraction part
of latitude, integer part of longitude and decimal fraction part of longitude.

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The possible ranges of values are:

• Timezone : GMT-12:00 to GMT+12:00

• Latitude : -90,00° to +90,00°
• Longitude : -180,00° to +180,00°
After adjusting all values you store them by pressing the MANUAL button
immediately followed by pressing CITY. Pressing CITY alone will discard all your
changes.

Please regard that the coordinates has to be entered in decimal degrees, not in
degrees and minutes. If you have coordinates expressed in degrees and minutes you
first have to convert them into decimal degrees. To do so you just divide the minutes
by 60 and add the result to the (integer) degrees.

Example
Let th coordinates of your location be

Latitude: 41° 45' North (41 Degrees, 45 minutes North) and

Longitude: 12° 40' West (12 Degrees, 40 minutes West)

So you have

45 / 60 = ¾ = 0.75 : 41 + 0.75 = 41.75

40 / 60 = 2/3 = 0.6666... rounded 0.67 : 12 + 0.67 = 12,.67

Da der einzugebende Ort westlich von Greenwich liegt, ist für die geographische
Länge ein negativer Wert einzugeben. Die einzugebenden Daten sind hiermit

Latitude (Breite) : 41.75

Longitude(Länge) : -12.67

Hints
• The time zones can be adjusted by 30 minutes
• Positive time zones are eastern of Greenwich; the sun raises earlier, so the time
is higher
• Negative time zones are west of Greenwich; the sun raises later, so the time is
lower
• Positive longitudes are east, negative longitudes west from Greenwich
• Positive latitudes are north, negative latitudes are south of equator

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9.3 Choosing the school of law
Press the AZAN buton and hold down for about 1 second. Then you enter the
adjusting mode. The number of the currently selected school of law is flashing. By
pressing UP and DOWN you can change the school of law. Pressing AZAN finally
stores the change, whereas pressing any other function key leaves the mode discar-
ding you change.
A list of available school of laws you will find in the last chapter of this manual.

9.4 Setting delta value

You can change all prayer times by a defined amout of minutes. This so called delta
can be in the range of +- 9 minutes. For example if you selected a delta of -3, all
prayer songs are intonated 3 minutes before the calculated time. The difference is
also shown in the LCD as the associated auto alarms.
To enter the delta value press DELTA. First you can define if the entered delta value
shall be regarded or not. Pressing UP and DOWN switches the symbol DELTA in
the upper right corner of the LCD on or off.
Pressing SET lets you adjust the delta value itself by pressing UP or DOWN.
Pressing DELTA again stores you changes. Pressin any other function key leaves
the mode discarding your changes.

9.5 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls

Please regard, that for every prayer time type the prayer call is bounded to its asso-
ciated auto alarm. This means, that activating/deactivating a prayer time type, the
according autoalarm gets activated/deactivated too.

9.6 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls seperately

In order to activate or deactivate the prayer call for every prayer type seperately,
enter the adjusting mode by pressing and holding down the button AZAN for about
1 second. In this mode you first can select the school of law. Pressing the SET
button one or more times lets you step through the different prayer types. By
pressing UP or DOWN you activate or deactivate the prayer call for the currently
selected prayer type. The prayer call is activated when the small loudspeaker in the
lower right corner is visible..
By finally pressing the AZAN button you store your changes, whereas pressing an
other function key discards them.

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9.7 Activate/deactivate the prayer calls globally
Pressing the AZAN AN/OFF button lets you activate or deactivate all prayer calls at
once. Are all prayer calls activated by this button, the Symbol (( o )) in the upper
right corner of the LCD is visible.
Hint
All earlier setting for seperately activating/deactivating of the prayer call will be lost
by doing this.

9.8 Auto alarm

The auto alarm is adjustable in a range from -30 to +30 minutes and can be activated
or deactivated seperately for every prayer type. Please note, that the auto alarm
always is associated with the according prayer call. Either both, prayer call and auto
alarm are activated or none of them.
By pressing the AUTO button, you enter the according adjusting mode. First you
can activate or deactivate the auto alarm by pressing UP or DOWN. The activation
of the auto alarm you can see in the upper right corner of the LCD. The mosque
symbol is visible. Now pressing SET lets you enter the auto alarm offset to the
prayer time itself by pressing UP or DOWN. Finally pressing AUTO again makes
all your changes permanent, whereas pressing any other function key finishes the
auto alarm adjusting mode discarding your changes.

9.9 Displaying data

9.9.1 Displaying the prayer times

In normal mode, the World Wide Azan Clock always shows the prayer time that is
next to the actual time.
In order to see all prayer times of the actual day, press the AZAN button. You then
will see the name and the time of the first prayer type for this day in the lower right
corner of the LCD. Pressing the AZAN button on ore more times again lets you step
through all 6 prayer times for the actual day. These are Fajr, Shuruq, Dhuhr, Asr,
Maghrib and Ishaa.Please regard, that Shuruq, the time when the sun rises, is no real
prayer time. Therefore, reaching this time no prayer song will be played. This time
is just for your information.
Furthermore you have to bear in mind, that an eventually entered delta value not
equal to 0 and the activation of daylight saving time immediately affects the
displayed times.
The times will be displayed for about 5 seconds. If no button will be pressed during
this period, the clock automatically changes back to normal mode and the next
prayer time gets displayed.

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Hint
Please press the AZAN button only for a short time. Holding down the button for
more than 1 second lets the clock enter the adjusting mode.

9.9.2 Displaying geographical coordinates and the

timezone
By pressing the CITY button you enter the adjusting mode for cities. Without
changing anything you can see the actual timezone in the center part of the LCD
where in normal mode the current time is visible. In the upper part you can see the
geographical latitude and longitude in this order.
Bear in mind, that the latitude and longitude are displayed in decimal degreess. By
multiplying the fraction part you can calculate the according value in arc minutes.
Pressing CITY (or if no changes have been entered, pressing any other funtion
button) the clock changes back to normal mode.
Example
The display show the following data

Latitude : 41.75 : 0.75 * 60 = 45

Longitude : -12.67 : 0.67 * 60 = 40.2 rounded 40

So you have

Geographical latitude : 41° 45' North (41 Degrees, 45 minutes north) and
Geographical longitude : 12° 40' West (12 Degrees, 40 minutes west)

9.9.3 Qibla : The praying direction to Mekka

If you already are familiar with compasses specially designed to define the qibla,
you will have recognized that the qibly compasses mostly do not have the usual
360°, old degrees, scale. The scales of nearly all of these compasses are using new
degrees, there a full cirlce are 400° instead of 360°. Furthermore these compasses
often are attitionally modified in the way, that you do not get the geographical
direction to Mekka measured from the north pole, but a kind of inverted, or mirrored
value. See the next paragraph describing using the compass.
In order to avoid that the majority of purchasers of the World Wide Azan Clock, that
are familiar with these compasses, have to relearn but to make the use of the
compass as easy as possible, we decided to use the modified new degrees scale too.
Only stylised compass in the left part of the LCD shows the direction in usual old
degrees measured from the geographical north pole.
Pressing the UP bottom in normal clock mode shows you the qibla expressed in
modified new degrees. To switch back to normal clock mode, just press UP again.

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9.10 Using the removeable compass
To define the qible with the integrated, removeable compass you first have the clock
showing you the value of modified new degrees as described in the last paragraph.
If, for example, you have choosen the city Duisburg/Germany out ot the integrated
data base, in the display you see a value of 259°.

In order to now find the direction you turn the compass until the marked top of the
compass needle directs to the value 260°. Now the arrow on the scale (above the 0-
point, showing a minarette) excatly shows you the direction to Mekka.

If you want to know the direction to Mekka in usual old degrees, measured from the
geographical north pole, you can get it by using the following formula. G hereby
stands for old degrees, NG means modified new degrees displayed by the clock.

G = (400 – NG) / 400 * 360 or also

G = 360 – 0.9*NG

For the just described example Duisburg/Germany you get a value of 126.9°. These
are 126°54' /0.9*60=54). So looking from Duisburg, Mekka is in the direction ESE
(East-South-East = 112.5°) and SO (South-East = 135°).
Hint
The values of the qibla are not stored in the integrated data base but are calculated
automatically based on the entered geographical coordinates. This implies, that of
course the clock can show you the qibla for every location you entered by its
coordinates.

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10. Schools of law
Hint : Because of legal reasons, you have to see all values as similar to the
mentioned school of laws.

School of Organization Shadowtime Angel of the sun Angel of the sun Countries, Regions
law under horizon at under horizon at
time of morning time of evening
dawn (Fajr) dawn (Maghrib)

1 Diyanet Hanafi keine Angabe keine Angabe Diyanet Europa

2 Diyanet Hanafi k/a k/a Diyanet Turkey

3 Milli Görüs Hanafi k/a k/a Milli Görüs Europa

4 Milli Görüs Shafi k/a k/a Milli Görüs Turkey

5 Islamic Society Hanafi 13.5 Degrees 18 Degrees Europa Turkey

6 Islamic Society Shafi 13.5 Degrees 18 Degrees Europa Turkey

University of Hanafi 18 Degrees 18 Degrees Pakistan, Bangladesh,

islamic India, Afghanistan,
sciences, Parts of Europe
7 Karachi

University of Shafi 18 Degrees 18 Degrees Pakistan, Bangladesh,

islamic India, Afghanistan,
sciences, Parts of Europe
8 Karachi

Islamic society Hanafi 15 Degrees 15 Degrees Parts of USA,

of north Canada, Parts of UK
9 America

Islamic Society Shafi 15 Degrees 15 Degrees Parts of USA,

of North Canada, Parts of UK
10 America

Muslim World Hanafi 18 Degrees 17 Degrees Europe, The Far East,

11 League Parts of USA

Muslim World Shafi 18 Degrees 17 Degrees Europe, The Far East,

12 League Parts of USA

Umm-I-Qura Hanafi 19 Degrees 90 minutes after the Arabian Peninsula

Commitee Sunset Prayer 120
minutes (in
13 Ramadan only)

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School of Organization Shadowtime Angel of the sun Angel of the sun Countries, Regions
law under horizon at under horizon at
time of morning time of evening
dawn (Fajr) dawn (Maghrib)

Umm-I-Qura Shafi 19 Degrees 90 minutes after the Arabian Peninsula

Commitee Sunset Prayer 120
minutes (in
14 Ramadan only)

Egytian Hanafi 19.5 Degrees 17.5 Degrees Africa, Syria, Iraq,

General Lebanon, Malaysia,
Authority of Parts of the USA
15 Survey

Egytian Shafi 19.5 Degrees 17.5 Degrees Africa, Syria, Iraq,

General Lebanon, Malaysia,
Authority of Parts of the USA
16 Survey

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