Not every Christian knows what prayer is. It is understandable: this is the prerogative of Muslims. Every Muslim who accepts Islam is simply obliged to know what it is and to understand its essence. We’ll talk about this.
What is namaz?
Namaz is a fivefold act of worshiping Allah. In other words, this is the daily obligatory prayer of Muslims, performed five times a day. Namaz is considered the second of the five pillars of Islam. It is believed that this is how a Muslim can get closer to Allah himself. This is the basic requirement of the Islamic religion, which the religious Muslim must strictly fulfill.
How is namaz performed?
As already mentioned above, every Muslim should know this prayer: both a man and a woman are obliged to teach their children namaz when they are 7 years old. So, what do you need to know before prayer, during and after it?
- A Muslim must have a rug.
- Know the exact time for your prayer.
- Excellent knowledge of the rite.
- A Muslim should have any device that allows him to navigate the terrain. This is necessary in order to properly position yourself facing a black stone located in Mecca.
- The most important condition for performing this ritual is ablution. Only after this, the Muslim has the right to begin prayer.
- You need to pray in clean clothes. In women, it should cover absolutely all parts of the body, except for the hands and face.
- During prayer you need to raise your arms bent at the elbows. Hands are on par with the ears.
- The corresponding text of the prayer is pronounced.
- After prayer, you need to turn the rug and continue to do their own thing.
Important! No faithful Muslim should forget that he needs to do exactly five prayers throughout the day at a specific time allotted for each prayer. Only in this case, the duty to Allah can be considered fulfilled.
Strict namaz rule
What is namaz? This is an obligatory appeal to Allah at a specially allotted time for this. That is why it is necessary to perform this ritual always and regardless of the conditions in which the Muslim is currently located. It does not matter whether it is a store or an airport or a street. It also happens that roads and highways are blocked by an uncountable number of believers who pray during the time necessary for this. This is very inconvenient for people of other faiths: they cannot get to work on time. They have to choose a detour.
Why should prayers be performed five times?
The fact is that those five periods of time allotted for this worship are related to the five parts of the Muslim day: at dawn, at noon, in the afternoon, at the end of the day (evening) and at night.
In general, if you dive into this topic in detail, you can understand how scrupulously all Muslims relate to the performance of their religious rites and rituals. That is why both a woman and a man and a child from 7 years old need to know what prayer is and perform it with maximum accuracy so as not to anger the Almighty Allah.