page_title: Tarawih
hierarchical_section_title: Tarawih
caption_attribution_description: English: Tarawih @ Taipei Grand Mosque, Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan 中文: 中華民國臺北市大安區台北清真寺
context_page_description: Tarawih refers to additional ritual prayers performed by Muslims at night after the Isha prayer during the holy month of Ramadan. It may involve reading one Juz', and usually is 8 or 10 raka'at, lasting well over an hour in total. According to some scholars,
  one performs 20 rakats. Unlike the five daily salat ritual prayers which are fard under Islamic law, tarawih is from the sunnah.
context_section_description: Tarawih (Arabic: تراويح‎, literally "rest and relaxation", a term introduced later and actually called Qiyam al-Layl and Tahajjud in Qur'an and Sahih Hadith) refers to additional ritual prayers performed by Muslims at night after the Isha prayer during the holy month of Ramadan. It may involve reading one Juz'  (Arabic: جُزْء, i.e. a section of the Quran 1/30 its length, which generally takes somewhere between 20–60 minutes), and usually is 8 or 10 raka'at, lasting well over an hour in total. According to some scholars,
  one performs 20 rakats. Unlike the five daily salat ritual prayers which are fard (obligatory) under Islamic law, tarawih is from the sunnah (recommended or lit. words and acts of the prophet Muhammad).
caption: Tarawih prayer at Taipei Grand Mosque, Taiwan.
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