Takbir
Takbeer (Arabic تكبير ), a verbal noun of the Arabic verb Kabbara the meaning is " Allahu akbar say " ( الله أكبر, DMG Allahu Akbar, God is great '). This formula is used very frequently in Islam.
Allah is the Arabic word for "God." Akbar is the elative form of the adjective كبير Kabīr, large, great; important ', meaning " larger ", " greatest " or "very large". The elative includes both the importance of the comparative (greater than) as well as the superlative (biggest ) in its grammatical function. The article loosely elative primarily performs the function as a predicate or as indeterminate apposition to rain: Allāhu akbaru, ie God is ( incomparable ) in size. However, the elative fulfilled only in combination with the preposition min is the function of a comparison. For example: Allāhu akbar min Mala ʾ ikatihi ( "Allah is greater than his angels "). Otherwise the meaning corresponds to the superlative ( " the greatest ").
In this meaning is already Takbeer in Sura 17 verse 111 occupied: وكبره تكبيرا / wa - kabbirhu takbīran /, and praise him everywhere '. See also: Sura 74, verse 3, which is one of the oldest verses of the Qur'an: وربك فكبر / wa - rabbaka fa - kabbir /, and prices your Lord. '
The term is to speak at the beginning of the daily obligatory prayers (salat ); They name him تكبيرة الإحرام / takbīratu ʾ l - ihram / , takbir of the ordained state '. In Islamic law, this takbir is considered either as a religious duty and as a part of prayer, or as Sunnah. During the prayer, he will be repeated five times. Accordingly, the term is also part of the voluntary prayers. The call to prayer ( adhan ) also begins with this expression. According to tradition, Muhammad have the takbir four or five times called at a funeral. It's Prophet Unna, takbir at different stations of the pilgrimage ceremonies, to speak at the sight of the Ka'ba and at the end of a journey. According to some traditions, it is also prophets Unna, at the sight of the new moon ( hilal ) at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan " Allāhu akbar " to call.
The term is " Allāhu akbar " included in the flag of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.