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Tarawih prayer at Taipei Grand Mosque, Taiwan. Tarawih (Arabic: تَّرَاوِيح, romanized: tarāwīḥ) are special Sunnah prayers involving reading long portions of the Quran, and performing up to 20 rakahs (cycles of prostrations required in Islamic prayer), which are performed only in the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Compared to regular compulsory prayer. Sohaib Sultan states that the steps for Sunnah prayer (Takbir, al-Fatihah, etc.) are exactly the same as for five daily obligatory prayers, but varying depending on the prayer are the number of rakat [2] (also rakʿah (Arabic: ركعة rakʿah, pronounced; plural: ركعات rakaʿāt), which is a unit of prayer.
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.
The Arabic word salah (Arabic: صلاة, romanized: Ṣalāh, pronounced or [sˤə.ɫaːt]) means 'prayer'. [6] The word is used primarily by English speakers to refer to the five daily obligatory prayers. Similar terms are used to refer to the prayer in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Somalia, Tanzania, and by some Swahili speakers.
[3] [4] The best-known example of this genre is Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, which was written to include all the fundamentals of the sacred Islamic law. Khomeini completed his collection in 1939, and it was first published in 1940. [1] He quotes the Arabic text of each hadith in the book with its Persian translation and discusses its various ...
The Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text and English Translation (1990) was the first translation by a Muslim woman, Amatul Rahman Omar. The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) by Taqi Usmani is the first English translation of the Quran ever written by a traditionalist Deobandi scholar. [5]
Tahiyyat al-wudu (lit., "greeting the ablution") is a nafl prayer which is performed after completing ablution ().It is a minimum of two cycles. [2]Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet said to Bilal ibn Rabah: "O Bilal, tell me about the most hopeful act (for reward) which you have done since your acceptance of Islam, because I heard the sound of the steps of your shoes in front of me in ...
The optional dawn prayer is a pair of rakats which are offered to God just before performing the obligatory Fajr prayer which is fard. [3] [4]This nafilah is considered by Muslim jurists to be a confirmed Sunnah [], and it represents the beginning of the daytime prayers of the Muslim day, while the Witr is the closing of the nighttime prayers just after the Chafa'a prayer.