INTRODUCTION

This segment has been prepared in adherence to the second of the five fundamental principles of Islam. The glorious principle of praying five times a day in a prescribed manner called the "Salat". The five-time prayers become obligatory from the moment a Muslim reaches adolescence or a person embraces Islam. This is an extremely important tenet of Islam and has been enjoined with great emphasis both in the Holy Qur’an and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad(saw). According to one of his sayings, it is the borderline between a Muslim and a non-believer.

Just as performing ‘Salat’ is obligatory, learning to perform it in the prescribed way is also obligatory so that one should know what he is saying to his Lord, and enjoy the full blessings and benefits of praying. One of the major drawback that exists in modern day Muslims of non-Arab origin, especially south-east Asian countries, is that they do not understand of what they recite during their prayers which amounts to go against one of the major verse of the Holy book:

Although a study of ‘tafseer’ of the above verse reveals that the verse was revealed as a warning to those who used to come to the mosques under the influence of intoxicants but an equally important aspect was also touched upon in the performance of Salat and that was to ‘understand all that we say’. All the prayers have to be said in Arabic besides reciting some verses of the Holy Qur’an. Therefore, it becomes essential for every Muslim to start learning those prayers in Arabic as well as some short ‘Suras’ (chapters) of the Holy Qur’an as soon as the God Almighty guides him towards the true and ONLY path of Islam.

Unfortunately there exists very few sites which deal with this subject in informative and comprehensive way, especially when it comes to English translation alongside Arabic script and thus we felt the need to include this segment on our web site. Also, we sometimes found that differences occur between established practices in various prayer books. Under these circumstances, we found the work by Mr. Mohammed Abdul Karim Saqib as our most comprehensive source to refer to. It contains references to authentic Hadiths wherever needed and most of the points are clarified as much as possible.

We hope that Allah will accept our efforts in recreating this work on the net so that it may prove to be of some benefit to our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world.

PS: Please bear with some delay, that might exist in the download of images of the Ayah’s & Dua’s  in Arabic, in the subsequent chapters of the Prayer Guide. For clarity reasons and compression constraints, we have opted to trade time with clarity. Thank you in advance, for your patience.