PRAYERS (الـصـلـوات)

:الـصـلـوات

• To perform a religious service/ritual/rite.

• Worshipful performance.

• Prayer is the pillar of faith.

• To pray five times a day.

• A nondenominational church service.

• A bell is used to summon worshippers to prayer.

• The mueddin gave the call to prayer.

• The call to prayer was heard from the loudspeakers positioned on the minaret of the mosque.

• The criers of mosques are dedicated to religious practice.

• Callers to prayers and prayer leaders.

• The bearded/beardless mosque crier called the faithful to prayer.

• To pray singly/as a (= with) congregation.

• Under the leadership of the Imam,…

• Prayer is punctuated by genuflection and prostration.

• He joined hands and prayed.

• To bow one’s head and hold hands in prayer.

• To pray with reverence.

• Mobile phones and pagers distract worshippers in their spiritual obligations.

• This religious ritual is meant to purify them from the soul-destroying effects of…

• Cleanliness is next to godliness.

• In his Friday sermon, Sheikh X standing on the pulpit explained that to perform the prayers one must clean his body, his clothes and the place for prayer, and that to make it easier for Muslims, one can do Tayammum if water for ablution is not available. When performing ablution, instead of washing the feet, one can just rub over one’s shoes.

• To perform ablutions before entering the mosque/ starting prayer.

• Inspiration/expiration of water.

• Church doctrine.

• Monastic practices.

• He dropped to his knees and crossed himself.

• To make the sign of the cross.

• A member of the church choir said his prayers.

• A prayerful person.

• To attend mosque faithfully, and give sacrificially.

• Ejaculatory prayers.

• The funeral prayer.

• The sunset/Isha prayer.

• The dawn/midday/late-afternoon prayer.

• Friday Congregational Prayer.

• Bedtime prayer.

• To whisper a prayer.

• To pray God.

• To pray for s.o./rain.

• To spend the entire night in prayer.

• To turn to God for help.

• To invoke the assistance of God.

• To call upon/out to the Lord.

• To reach out to God.

• To raise one’s arms prayerfully.

• “Let no desire remain unfulfilled in my heart, Allah.”

• “Be, and it is.”

• His prayer was listened to.

• God heard his audible prayers.

• God granted her prayer/ request/wish.

• God answered his call for help.

• The Lord heard my cry/ voice.

• My plea for help was heard.

• To recite a prayer of thanks.

• Prayers of thanksgiving.

• Being unwell, he was entirely healed through prayer/ through consecrated prayer and devoted study of the Qur’an.

• To recite the Qur’an.

• To chant religious hymns.

• Old/New Testament.

• Hebrew Bible.

• A rosary (= a long string of prayer beads).

• To tell/say one’s beads – to say the rosary.

• To go beyond restrictive ordinance of God.

• To keep the commandments of God.

• Doxology.

• God/Heaven forbid!

• God is Great.

• Peace be with you.

• May God guard you.

• May God prolong your life.

• May God be gracious to us.

• May God shower you with abundant blessings.

• To bestow a blessing/curse.

• All thanks and praise to the Almighty.

• Allah be praised – praise be to Allah.

• Glory be to God.

• God Willing.

• Whatever God intend.

• May God bless you.

• I seek protection by God.

• For the sake of God.

• In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

• To swear on the Bible.

• The tenets of the Christian faith.