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The second floor is occupied by Sharjah's Department of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, including a general library and offices, adding the library having approximately 7,000 books on Islamic thought and history, modern books on Islamic Sharia and ahadith, in addition to cultural, literary and scientific works. The ground and first floors are for ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
The Sharjah Mosque (Gulf Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلشَّارْقَة , romanized: Masjid Aš-Šārjah), [4] [5] is the largest mosque in the Emirate of Sharjah, the U.A.E. Besides serving the needs of Muslims , the mosque has a library, and an area for giving Dawah to non-Muslims.
Sundial indicating prayer times, situated in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. Author: Keith Roper. Salat times are prayer times when Muslims perform salat. The term is primarily used for the five daily prayers including the Friday prayer, which takes the place of the Dhuhr prayer and must be performed in a group of aibadat.
Al Noor Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع ٱلنُّوْر , romanized: Jāmiʿ An-Nūr) is a mosque in Sharjah, the U.A.E., located on the Khaled lagoon at the Buhaira Corniche. [2] It is of Turkish Ottoman design and was influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Turkey. [1] [3] It is one of the mosques open to the public in Sharjah, which has ...
The Islamic Center of Greater Austin or ICGA is a mosque and Islamic community center in Austin, Texas in the United States. [2]The Center was established in March 1977 as a non-profit religious organization registered with the State of Texas and is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which is a subsidiary of ISNA, as its ...
Salat al-Istikhaarah is a prayer offered when a Muslim needs guidance on a particular matter. To say this salah one should pray two rakats of non-obligatory salah to completion. After completion one should request Allah that which on is better. [ 65 ]
The main feature of the mosque is a huge dome, the largest of its kind in the country, [9] which covers the main prayer-hall. [3] Adorned with verses from the Quran , the dome has an interior height of 31.3 m (103 ft), an interior diameter of 75 m (246 ft), an exterior diameter of 86 m (282 ft), [ 1 ] and a total area of 4,117 m 2 (44,320 sq ft).