Al Harameen AL-121 User manual

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

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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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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.