Misbaha

A misbaha (Arabic: مِسْبَحَة, romanized: misbaḥa), subḥa (Arabic: سُبْحَة) Gulf countries people call it Mesbah (Arabic: مِسْبَاَحْ) (Arabic and Urdu), tusbaḥ (Somali), tasbīḥ (Arabic: تَسْبِيح) (Iran, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia), or tespih (Turkish, Bosnian and Albanian) is a set of prayer beads often used by Muslims for the tasbih, the recitation of prayers (the dhikr), as well as to glorify Allah. It resembles the japamala used in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, or the rosary used in Catholicism. The Arab/Iranian/Turkish and their neighbors put a lot of care as to what materials are used, generally being gems, beads and so forth.

Tessel/التأصيله. Some people call it karkoshah/ الكركوشه and some call it shrabah/شرابه and tamlikah/تمليكه.

They make it from cotton or other fabrics in different colors, different lengths and designs or use some grade of sterling silver with some design, like Turkish people they merge with other parts too.

Al Shahid/الشَاَهِدْ or alm'athnah/المِئْذَنَةْ this usually is the longest part of the mesbah and the maker puts his signature on it. They are made from the same material as the beads or sometimes In the Turkish tradition are made from silver, and sometimes some symbols of flags or crescents or stars are ingrained, and some people like a wide shahid or thin and long.

Beads/الخَرَزْ (Alkharaz)

The beads vary in shape, like corn shape/ذَرَوِيْ

Barrel/بِرْمِيِلْيِ (birmelli) or بَرَاَمِيِلْيِ (barramili) and shape vary also from box shape/صِنْدُوُقِيِ (sandooqi) to round/دائري (daeiri) and also there are more than 10 shapes some similar to pigeon eggs/بِيْضْ الحَمَاَمْ (baith alhamam) and every shape has sub shapes too.

Commas/الفَوَاَصِلْ (Al fawasel) or they call it Interpretations /التَفَاَسِيِرْ (altfaser). Those small beads to separate every 11 beads for 33 beads. For example, it's two usually no matter how many beads in your hand it has a special design or from silver sometimes, or you can see them by the shape only.

Materials/الخَاَمَةْ (Al khamah)

Usually, the famous stone is always Amber الكَهْرَمَاَنْ (Al Kahrman) and is the most valued one for age-effect reasons and change of colors of using these materials and many of them are valued excluding some asian (less age stones).

Also, Ivory العَاَجْ (Al a'aj) and later they forbade it after some news of the almost extinction of some animals and smugglers of that material.

Also, there are industrial materials and semi-industrial materials like backlit faturan and sandaluse. And all the materials are special in their way: colors, patterns or clarity.

Also, the most respected job is for crafters.

And almost every muslim country has a famous crafter. They do it with simple tools and machinery, so the hand touch very special.

And they call them Master/الاُسْتَاَذْ or اُسْطَىَ (Üsta).

Tessel/التأصيله. Some people call it karkoshah/ الكركوشه and some call it shrabah/شرابه and tamlikah/تمليكه.

They make it from cotton or other fabrics in different colors, different lengths and designs or use some grade of sterling silver with some design like Turkish people. They merge with other parts too.

Al Shahid/الشَاَهِدْ or alm'athnah/المِئْذَنَةْ is usually the longest part of the mesbah and the maker puts his signature on it. They are made from the same material as beads or, like some Turks, they do it from silver some time, and they put some symbols of flags or crescents or stars sometimes, and some people like a wide shahid or thin and long.

Beads/الخَرَزْ (Alkharaz)

The beads vary in shape, like corn shape/ذَرَوِيْ

Barrel/بِرْمِيِلْيِ (birmelli) or بَرَاَمِيِلْيِ (barramili) and shape vary also from box shape/صِنْدُوُقِيِ (sandooqi) to round/دائري (daeiri) and also there more than 10 shape or even more like pigeon egg/بِيْضْ الحَمَاَمْ (baith alhamam) and every shape had sub shapes too.

Commas/الفَوَاَصِلْ (Al fawasel) or they call it Interpretations /التَفَاَسِيِرْ (altfaser). These small beads are separate every 11 beads for 33 beads. For example, it's two usually no matter how many beads in your hand it has a special design or from silver sometimes, or you can see them by the shape only.

Materials/الخَاَمَةْ (Al khamah)

Usually, the famous stone is always Amber الكَهْرَمَاَنْ (Al Kahrman) and is the most valued one for age-effect reasons and change of colors when using these materials, and many of them are valued excluding some asian (less aged stones)

Also, Ivory العَاَجْ (Al a'aj) and later they forbade it after some news of the almost extinction of some animals and smugglers of that material.

Also, there are industrial materials and semi-industrial materials like backlit faturan and sandaluse. And all the materials are special in their own way: color patterns, clarity or impurities.

Also, the most respected job is for crafters.

And almost every muslim country has a famous crafter. They do it with simple tools and machinery, so the hand touch very special.

And they call them Master/الاُسْتَاَذْ or اُسْطَىَ (Üsta).