page_title: Salah
section_title: Friday prayer (Jumu'ah)
hierarchical_section_title: Salah / Categories / Supererogatory prayers / Friday prayer (Jumu'ah)
caption_attribution_description: English: Kaohsiung Mosque Prayer Hall, Lingya District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan中文: 中華民囯高雄市苓雅區高雄清真寺大禮拜堂
context_page_description: Salah or Salat among most non-Arab Muslims, is the second of the five pillars in the Islamic faith as daily obligatory standardized prayers. It is a physical, mental, and spiritual act of worship that is observed five times every day at prescribed times. While facing towards the Kaaba in Mecca, Muslims pray first standing and later kneeling or sitting on the ground, reciting from the Qur'an and glorifying and praising Allah as they bow and prostrate themselves in between. Ritual purity is a precondition.
  Salah is composed of repetitive cycles of bows and prostrations, divided into prescribed units called a rakʿah. The number of rakaʿahs varies according to the time of day.
context_section_description: Salat al-Jumu'ah is a congregational prayer on Friday, which replaces the Zuhr prayer. It is compulsory upon men to pray this in congregation, while women may pray it so or offer Zuhr salat instead. Salat al-Jumu'ah consists of a sermon (khutba) given by the sermoner (khatib), after which two rakats are prayed. There is no Salat al-Jumu'ah without a khutba. Khutba is supposed to be carefully listened to as it replaces Sawaab of two Rakats.
caption: Jumu'ah at Kaohsiung Mosque, Taiwan.
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