| Thousands gathered to welcome the imam of the grand mosque in Makkah on his visit to Lancashire. |
| The imam is a prayer leader, the muezzin the caller to prayers in each community. |
| On Fridays Muslims attend a service at a mosque in which an imam leads the prayer and usually gives a sermon. |
| The oiler, from Bangladesh, recalled that, when he was a child, his imam had asked him to pray for Muslims dying in a civil war in Somalia. |
| While I was offering a supererogatory prayer, the imam entered the obligatory prayer. |
| An emir on the trip complained because the poi had been in the oast too long, and an imam cried because he missed his esnes. |
