CALLED to Pray: 52 Devotions & Prayers for Women

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Time calculation [ edit ] Qingjing Mosque, Quanzhou, China, with adjustable clocks displaying prayer times (the leftmost clock is for the Friday public prayer, then the next five are for fajr, zuhr, asr, maghrib, isha). 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.

The Isha'a or isha prayer starts at civil dusk when the darkness starts to spread across the sky, and lasts until nautical dusk when the western horizon gets completely dark and cannot be observed through naked eye. a b According to Shia Muslims, Asr prayer and Isha prayer have no set times but are said any time starting from midday. displaystyle \lambda } and ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } are the longitude and the latitude of the considered point, respectively. The astronomical sunset/sunrise that occurs at α = 0 {\displaystyle \alpha =0} , but atmospheric refraction makes the sun appear 50 arcminutes higher.This gives, in hours, the difference between Dhuhr time and when the sun is at altitude α {\displaystyle \alpha } . 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. 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. According to Imam Abu Hanifa, "Asr starts when the shadow of an object becomes twice its height (plus the length of its shadow at the start time of Zuhr).

note 1] In modern times, various religious or scientific agencies in Muslim countries produce annual prayer timetables for each locality, and electronic clocks capable of calculating local prayer times have been created.

For example, the Maghrib prayer can be performed at any time after sunset and before the disappearance of the red twilight from the west. Time for dhuhr and asr prayers overlap, but the zuhr prayer must be offered before asr, except the time about 10 minutes before sunset, which is delegated exclusively to asr.