Understanding your prayer time display
Where your prayer times come from, how the Hijri date changes at the right moment, the attribution that always appears, how the iqamat countdown works, and what the Clock display is for.
Quick answer
Your prayer times come directly from MUIS — no manual entry, no drift. Your Hijri date changes at Maghrib, the moment the Islamic day actually begins, not at midnight like most calendars and apps.
Where the times come from
Every prayer time shown on your display is sourced directly from MUIS — Singapore's official source for prayer times — not a generic international calculation adjusted afterward. You'll see "Based on MUIS's officially released prayer times." on your display as a standing attribution.
Why the Hijri date changes at Maghrib, not midnight
The Islamic day begins at Maghrib, not midnight. Most calendars and off-the-shelf apps roll the Hijri date over at midnight anyway, following the Gregorian convention — which means for several hours every evening, a midnight-based display is showing the wrong Hijri date without anyone realizing it.
Your Awqōt display changes the moment Maghrib prayer begins, not at an arbitrary clock time, so the date shown always matches the Islamic day your congregation is actually in.
The prayer card and the iqamat countdown
When each of the five prayers is reached (Syuruk doesn't count), your display shows the prayer card over the screen. It runs in up to three stages:
- Countdown — the prayer name with Iqamat in and the time left until iqamat.
- Iqamat — the single word Iqamat, for 2 minutes.
- Prayer time — the prayer name and its adzan time, for the length of time set under Prayer time overlay → Duration (minutes). Then the card fades out.
Zohor on a Friday has no card at all.
Setting your iqamat offsets
In Mosque Admin Dashboard (awqot.app/admin), open the Display tab. Under Iqamat offsets, enter a number of minutes for each prayer — Subuh, Zohor, Asar, Maghrib and Isyak — and tap Save offsets.
- Counted from prayer time, and it includes the adzan. The countdown starts when the prayer time is reached, not when the adzan ends. If iqamat is called 10 minutes after prayer time, enter 10.
- For iqamat straight after the adzan, enter the adzan's length in minutes — the screen can't tell when the adzan finishes.
- 0 means no countdown. The screen shows the adzan-time card only — the prayer name and its time — with no countdown and no Iqamat card. It doesn't mean there is no iqamat: the bilal starts it in the hall as usual.
- Zohor is skipped on Fridays automatically.
Changes reach your display and the Clock display within about 30 seconds, and are checked again just before each prayer, so there is nothing to refresh.
Changing iqamat for one day
On the same Display tab, Day-specific iqamat override changes one prayer on one date only. Pick the Date, the Prayer and the Offset (minutes from prayer time), then tap Save override. It replaces that prayer's offset for that date — it doesn't add to it — and every other day uses your fixed offsets again. Saving the same date and prayer again overwrites the earlier value, and an override of 0 gives the adzan-time card only for that day.
The Clock display
Your mosque also has a separate Clock display at yourmosque.awqot.app/clock, meant for the muadzin and bilal in a separate room, not the congregation. It shows the same prayer card at each prayer, using the same iqamat offsets and overrides. See The Clock display for what's on it and what its messages mean.
Still stuck?
The Awqōt team is happy to help with prayer times.