CALLED to Pray: 52 Devotions & Prayers for Women

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For example, the Maghrib prayer can be performed at any time after sunset and before the disappearance of the red twilight from the west. Sundial indicating prayer times, situated in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia.

Dhuhr and asr time overlap, apart from the first 5 minutes of dhuhr, which is exclusively delegated for it.

There are varying opinions regarding the exact salah times, the schools of Islamic thought differing in minor details.

Maghrib and Isha prayers must be offered before midnight, and the time for Isha prayer can start after Maghrib has been prayed, as long as no more light remains in the western sky signifying the arrival of the true night. To calculate prayer times two astronomical measures are necessary, the declination of the sun and the difference between clock time and sundial clock. Per all major Jafari jurists, [ citation needed] start of asr time is about 5 minutes after the time of sun passing through zenith, that time belongs exclusively to dhuhr prayer.As a result, we have T F a j r = T D h u h r − T ( 18 ∘ ) {\displaystyle T_{\mathsf {Fajr}}=T_{\mathsf {Dhuhr}}-T(18 clarification needed] This prayer needs to be given in the middle of the work-day, and people normally make their prayers during their lunch break.

Because the start and end times for prayers are related to the solar diurnal motion, they vary throughout the year and depend on the local latitude and longitude when expressed in local time. In the case that the mentioned time is reached, asr prayer should be offered first (ada - on time) and dhuhr (kada - make up, late) prayer should be offered after asr. Per all major Jafari jurists, the end of dhuhr time is about 10 minutes before sunset, the time that belongs exclusively to asr prayer.This gives, in hours, the difference between Dhuhr time and when the sun is at altitude α {\displaystyle \alpha } . The five daily prayers are considered obligatory ( fard) by many and they are performed at times determined essentially by the position of the Sun in the sky. The Asr prayer starts when the shadow of an object is the same length as the object itself (or, according to Hanafi school, twice its length) [ citation needed] plus the shadow length at zuhr, and lasts till sunset. displaystyle \lambda } and ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } are the longitude and the latitude of the considered point, respectively. The prescribed times of the prayers depicted in place of the position of the sun in the sky, relative to the worshipper.