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Saturday, March 30, 2013

MOBILE APPS HELP MUSLIMS



Aha, imagine this- you’re travelling, maybe on a plane or a train where you can’t see the sun but it’s time to pray. What are you going to do??

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This is where technology will be our assistant when there is no sources you can find in traditional way. Numerous software applications are now available on smartphone for help and easier for muslims.  

When I bought my smartphone and saw the application for the first time, i thought: this is amazing, SUBHANALLAH, who has several Islamic applications on my smartphone and also my tablet. “Whoever came up with this idea; God bless him or her.” In fact, most of the applications are free and you can download wherever you have internet connections.


Prayer time

Compass

Quran 


This is also be experienced by one of  muslims; Sumeyye Kalyonco, She’s turkish but stay at US. From her experience at US, when it is time to pray, mosques in US do not broadcast daily calls to prayer from external loudspeakers , as they do in Muslim countries. However, now shes use application in iPhone to help her daily life as a muslim. The app called iPray Lite, keeping track of requisite daily prayers with a program that simulates the clicking sound of prayers beads or the truning wheel of a handheld metal counter Muslims use to keep count of prayer repetitions. Using headphones, the 24 year old says she can now fulfil her daily spiritual obligations by counting prayers on her iPhone on the commuterbus to Manhattan from her Edgewater home.  
Therefore, i do agree that if you look at positive side, technology helps us a lot in many way as compared to the tradition way that might take time, not managing well and so forth.