Niskaram, the prayer to God is a divine thing in our life. We believe in God, in our prayer times, we share everything with God, the almighty. Different religions, different rituals but all focusing on the same concept. Hindu, Christian, or Muslim we all pray to god every day. Maybe the type of prayers is different in different religions. Today here I’m sharing an app that contains all the information about Niskaram (Islamic Prayer).

Malayalam Niskaram App – Niskaarangal-Malayalam

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The Niskaarangal-Malayalam is a niskaram app that contains information about all prayers for the people who believe in Islam. The app is a complete guide of Niskaram. Most of the applications are available in the Arabic language, it’s rare to available Islamic Prayers in Malayalam. This guide will cover many of the essentials a Muslim needs to know in order to make their daily prayers:

Also Read: Ramadan 2021 : Know the important prayer timings – Muslim Pro

This is an Android app available in the Google Play Store with good user reviews. You can find the app on the Google Play Store under the Lifestyle category of apps. As per Google Play Store records, over 1 lakh people downloaded the Niskaarangal-Malayalam app from Play Store and it has an average rating of 4.8. The app size is 5.0M, it last updated on August 31, 2020. The current version of the app is 9.8. And it only works on Android devices that have Android version 4.1 and above. App content rated age 3+. App developed by D-sha. You can simply download and install the app from the Google Play Store.

This is one of a such application. Niskaarangal-Malayalam contains niskara poornaroopam in Arabic and Malayalam, sunnath niskarangal, mayyath niskarangal, jama-ath niskarangal, ravathib sunnathukal, thasbeeh niskaram, perunal niskaram, grahana niskaram, khunooth, bank – ikhamath and more.

The app integrated with a good search engine, so you can simply search for prayers. It has a unique and user-friendly interface but contains ads. If you think it’s useful for you, you can also suggest this app for your friends and family. The app providing an option to share app links to any social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Gmail etc.

Whatever I say about the rituals and customs of Kerala Muslims would be with regard to the religious and social lives of Sunni Muslims. Though there are four schools of thought in Sunnis, namely, Shafi, Hanafi, Hanbali and Maliki, Kerala Muslims mainly comprise the Shafi sect. Therefore what I am describing here are the Ramaḍan and Eid customs of the Shafi Sunnis in Kerala.

As you know, fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam, others include, doing namaz five times a day, going on the Hajj and giving zakat.* The Malayalam equivalent for namaz is ‘niskaram’, a word which might have its origin in the Sanskrit word ‘namaskaram’. In Kerala the Arabic word ‘salat’ (usually pronounced ‘salah’ in Arab countries), is never used for namaz, but the word is used in another context, for here there is a practice of singing the glory of the Prophet and such performances are normally called, ‘Salat Cholluka’ (the rendering of Salat).

The word Ramadan derives from the root 'ramad', meaning ‘that which is intensely and harshly heated by the sun’. And the word 'ramdhaa' means the intense heat of the sun. Ramadan was named as such because it burns up the sins of the believers. In Kerala, though the month is called Ramadan, we don’t use the word ‘Saum’ for the fast. The Malayalam word for the fast is truly Dravidian, ‘nomb’, which came from the Malayalam equivalent for observance, ‘nolkkuka’.

In contrast to my childhood, fasting is now spread across all sections of society. In the 1960s, I remember the rich males of the community never observed the fast. It was meant for women and for the poor male members of the community. I still remember the labourers who were not allowed to have a drop of water during Ramadan lying exhausted in front of the mosques. My own family was relatively well off, and the men never observed the fast. As I see it, in Kerala half a century back, fasting was meant for women of all classes, for the poorer classes of men, and for religious or spiritual leaders. However, it has now changed to become a practice common to all.

In Kerala, the pre-dawn meal during Ramadan is called ‘athaazham’, the Malayalam word for the dinner. The next meal is ‘Magrib’, meaning dusk. Madarsas and some of the lower primary schools that follow the Muslim calendar are closed during Ramadan.

Of Dates, Fasting and Feasting

Dates figure in many stories about the Prophet, who is said to have created a species of seedless date. In Kerala, as in the Gulf countries, people break the fast by taking dates, and during Ramadan a wide variety of dates are imported to Kerala. From ancient times Kerala has imported dates from the port of Basra in Iraq, a practice that has even contributed a proverb to Malayalam, ‘Ningal Basarayilekku Kaarakka Kayatti Ayakkaruth’ (‘You should not export dates to Basra’).

An evergreen Malayalam folk song penned by the famous poet PT Abdul Rahman addresses traders from Arabia, ‘Kaamila Ketti Varunnavare, Kaarakka Thottangal Kandavare’. (‘He who visits us in desert caravans, who has seen the date-palm gardens’).

During my childhood, most people in Kerala could not afford even three meals a day. During Ramadan people mostly took pathiri (rice flour dosa) or tharikanji (semolina gruel). Those days Ramadan was meant for night-long prayers and day-long fasting. Now during this month you get almost all varieties of Arabic food in Kerala, and lots of festivities alongside. If you see the newspapers and television, you may get the impression that Ramadan is more a month for feasting than for fasting. In Kerala now it has almost become a culinary festival of Malabar cuisines. To give just one example, traditional Muslims families in northern Kerala could make at least 20 varieties of egg dishes…and the newspapers discuss these matters much more than the prayers and spiritual aspects of Ramadan.

Olive Pickle and the Harbour of Truth

An interesting story of a century ago refers to the relations between Arab traders and the Malabar Coast. A sultan from Arabia sent traders with jars of olive pickle to give every royal family on the Kerala coast, with the request to keep the container for the traders to collect on their return from Ceylon a few months later. The containers were duly collected and presented back to the Sultan. The story goes that the Sultan had placed gold beneath the pickle in all the jars, and only the Samoothiri, the king of Kozhikode, had returned both gold and pickle intact, so the Sultan realized that the king of Kozhikode would be the most trustworthy trading partner. This legend gave Kozhikode its name, ‘Sathyathinde Thuramukham’ (harbour of truth), from which derives the title of historian MGS Narayanan’s book on Kozhikode, Calicut: the City of Truth Revisited (2007).

Hajj, Tears and a Malayalam Film

The Hajj pilgrimage pre-dates the Prophet’s time. What the Prophet did was only to revise the tradition. Even some 50 years back, going on the Hajj was very rare in Kerala. The first reason was poverty. The second reason was that most of those who had attempted the Hajj had not returned. Those days one had to take a train from Kozhikode to Bombay, from where it took another ten days by sea to reach Jeddah. I personally am aware of many cases of pilgrims dying on that arduous voyage. I remember when people set out on the Hajj they would leave at home a piece of cloth that was meant to cover their dead body when it was returned. I remember hearing heart-breaking cries in households as pilgrims bid farewell. When someone went for the Hajj his return was expected after four months. Very rarely would families get letters from pilgrims; if it happened, it was a matter for celebrat

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