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To calculate prayer times two astronomical measures are necessary, the declination of the sun and the difference between clock time and sundial clock. This difference being the result of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and the inclination of its axis, it is called the equation of time. The declination of the sun is the angle between sun's ...
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 ...
In fajr, Al-Fatiha and the additional surah are to be read aloud (jahr), as during Maghrib and Isha. [7] It is commonly performed silently when waking up in the morning. [8] The prayer includes wudu (ritual purification) and salat (ritual prayer). [9] Fajr replaced salat al-duha as the morning prayer before the five prayers were standardized. [10]
Maghrib prayer at Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia. The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles . If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one.
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.
Holy Du'ā (archaically transliterated Doowa) [1] is the mandatory Nizari Isma'ili prayer recited three times a day: Fajr prayer at dawn, Maghrib prayer at sundown and Isha prayer in the evening. Each Holy Du'a consists of 6 rakat, totaling 18 per day, as opposed to the 17 of Sunni and Twelver salat (namaz).
The time period within which the Isha prayer must be recited is the following: For Shia Muslims: Time begins: once Maghrib (evening prayer) has been recited and completed. Time ends: at midnight, the midpoint between shafak and dawn. However, it is very important to recite the prayer as soon as the time begins.
The Faisal Mosque (Urdu: فیصل مسجد, romanized: faisal masjid) is the national mosque of Pakistan, located in the capital city, Islamabad. [1] [2] It is the fifth-largest mosque in the world, the largest mosque outside the Middle East, and the largest within South Asia, located on the foothills of Margalla Hills in Islamabad.