Salat

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Ṣalāt (Arabic: صلاة, ṣalāẗ) also known as namāz (Persian: نماز) and also spelled salah, is the practice of prayer in Islam. It is one of the five most important duties for Sunni Muslims. To perform Salat, a person's mind must be ritually pure, which comes from ritual ablution, wuḍūʾ, or the washing and cleansing of his or her body. The salat is observed three^[1][2][3] or (most commonly) five times every day at prescribed times. Salawat is plural, and Salat is singular.

1. ↑ Na, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im; Naʻīm, ʻabd Allāh Aḥmad (30 June 2009). Islam and the Secular State. ISBN 9780674033764.
2. ↑ Edward E. Curtis IV (2009-10-01). Muslims in America: A Short History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974567-8.
3. ↑ Jafarli, Durdana. "The historical conditions for the emergence of the Quranist movement in Egypt in the 19th-20th centuries." МОВА І КУЛЬТУРА (2017): 91.