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AL SALAT “Prayer” By Dr. MUHAMMAD M. GHALI

AL SALAT

1. Prayer:

Muslim scholars speak of two distinct sets of acts for worship.

 One is usually gone through when the performer is either sitting, reclining or standing. This has been called “du’a” (prayer), the verb being “data” (He called).

Another set of devotional acts is that which is accompanied by certain physical movements and prescribed recitations from the Glorious Quran. Such a co-ordinated performance of bowings, prostrations, and recitations is given the name sal&t (prayers).

Prayers are partly obligatory and partly optional. The obligatory prayers have to be performed at fixed times, five times every day.

2. Ablution:

Ablution, or purification, is a prerequisite for the performance of valid prayers. It may be defined as cleansing from material or spiritual pollution.

The conditions for the validity of ablution are :

• Belief (i.e. being a believer).
• Being in control of one’s faculties.
• Having attained majority.
• Ability to use a purifying agent.
• Availability of a purifying agent.
• Covering by ablution of all the designated parts.
• The absence of any pollution which renders it null and void, e.g. the absence of menstruation or a post-natal bleeding in women.
• Intention.
• Correct order of ceremonies.

Ablution may be categorised in three ways :

• Minor Ablution (wudU).
• Major Ablution (ghusl).
• Dry Ablution (tayammumf.

a) Minor Ablution :