Claim of American Muslims Praying for California Fire Containment is False

Social media users are sharing a video of Muslims offering prayers, claiming that American Muslims are praying for the containment of the raging fires in Los Angeles. Some users also claim that when all efforts to control the wildfires failed, a Muslim stepped up and prayed to Allah for their containment.

Chandni claimed, ‘American Muslims raising the volume of the call to prayer. ‎Every possible technology seems helpless in front of the uncontrollable fire in American California. ‎So in such a situation, the Muslims living there are praying to Allah اللّٰہُ to control these fires.’

अजान की सदायं बुलंद करते हुए अमरीकी मुसलमान

बेकाबू आग के सामने हर मुमकिन और पूरी टेक्नोलॉजी फैल और बेबस नजर आ रही है अमेरिकी कैलिफोर्निया

तो ऐसे में वहां के बाशिंदे मुस्लमान इन आग को काबू पाने के लिए अपने अल्लाह اللّٰہُ से फरियाद करते हुए pic.twitter.com/jzuxZCTn2f

— 𓂆 چاندنی (@Chandnii__) January 12, 2025

Abutalib Nisa, Md Isarail, Mubashshir Ahmed, and Arif Khan shared a similar claim.

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Fact Check

We began our fact-checking process by performing a reverse image search of the video. The search led us to a news article published on U News TV on June 3, 2022, which stated that people were reciting the Azaan to extinguish a fire in a Karachi department store.

Additionally, we found a video on Dailymotion with the caption, “In Pakistan, they tried to extinguish the fire with the ‘call to prayer’ (azan).”

Moreover, on June 5, 2022, The Times of India also shared the video, captioning it: “A video that is going viral on social media shows a group of Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan, holding the Azaan as a fire breaks out in a nearby supermarket…”

Hence, the claim that Muslims are praying to contain the wildfires in California is false. In reality, the video shows Muslims praying to contain a fire at a department store in Karachi, Pakistan.

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