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'''Daily salats:''' | '''Daily salats:''' | ||
#Salat Al Fajr – right before sun rise. (mentioned in {{Quran|17|78}} {{Quran|20|130}} {{Quran|24|58}}) | #Salat Al Fajr – right before sun rise. (mentioned in {{Quran|17|78}}, {{Quran|20|130}}, and {{Quran|24|58}}) | ||
#Salat Al Zuhr – right after the Sun’s zenith, but before the shadow of the Sun becomes twice its length from midday. ( | #Salat Al Zuhr – right after the Sun’s zenith, but before the shadow of the Sun becomes twice its length from midday. (Possibly mentioned in {{Quran|17|78}} as prayer at the "decline of the sun") | ||
#Salat Al Asr- between zenith and sunset, when the length of a shadow of a stick is either once or twice its length. (Mentioned in {{Quran|20|130}} | #Salat Al Asr- between zenith and sunset, when the length of a shadow of a stick is either once or twice its length. (Mentioned in {{Quran|2|238}} as "the middle prayer" and {{Quran|20|130}} and {{Quran|50|39}} as "exhalt with praise" before the sun's setting) | ||
#Salat Al Maghrib – right after sunset. ( | #Salat Al Maghrib – right after sunset. (not clearly mentioned in the Quran - {{Quran|20|130}} and {{Quran|50|39}} mention to "exhalt with praise" before rather than after sunset, though the latter verse also mentions "the two ends of the day") | ||
#Salat Al Isha'a – between sunset and sunrise. (Mentioned in {{Quran|20|130}}) | #Salat Al Isha'a – at night, between sunset and sunrise. (Mentioned in {{Quran|11|114}}, {{Quran|17|79}}, and {{Quran|20|130}}) | ||
The apparent daily course of the sun dictates the time of each and every daily prayer and the only examples of the sun being used for timekeeping in the Qur'an employs the sun's daily movement along the sky. | The apparent daily course of the sun dictates the time of each and every daily prayer and the only examples of the sun being used for timekeeping in the Qur'an employs the sun's daily movement along the sky. | ||