Question about the Islamic religion... a friend of mine is a foreign exchange student from Indonesia...?
and she leaves class occasionally with a small tote bag to go to the clinic and pray. In her religion is praying mandatory at certain times of the day? What's with the tote bag? I'm just curious so if anyone knows I'd be grateful (:
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why not ask her???
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As muslims we have been instructed through revelation (the Qur'an) and the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), to pray at five designated times of the day. In order they are: 1. Before sunrise 2. Noontime 3. Mid-Afternoon 4. Sunset 5. and Night In this way we keep the rememberance of Allah (the arabic word for the One God, creator of the heavens and Earth) in our minds and hearts. What she is most like carrying in her tote is a simple prayer mat and perhaps a compass so that she could tell which direction is Mecca. If you would like to know what she recites in her prayers you can just google how to pray, and you see a link to islamicfinder.org, peace.
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