Salah-The Prayer

Step by step guide

Prayer (known as Salah) is important and you should do it as it is an obligation. You should know that prayer is 5 times a day, it’s very easy:

1) Stand up, lay a clean mat to pray on
2) Face Mecca, south East, normally see which way a satellite dish faces
3) Raise your hands with palm facing the front holding up parallel to your chest shoulder about 5-10 cm away from your chest
4) Fold your hands right hand over the left, holding beneath your naval
5) Release your hands and bow down placing your hands on the knees
6) Than stand up again with hands on the side
7) Go to prostration position on the floor
8) Sit up and than go down again
9) Do the process again from the time you stand up to the second prostration
10)Sit down on your knees and turn your head to your right and after half a second pause turn to the left.


YOUR PRAYER IS FINISHED


This is known as two raka prayer, there is also three and four