Pre-Requisites

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What Is To Be Done Before Performing Salah

• 1-Ritual Purity (Wudhu’ or Ghusl depending on the state of impurity; see Taharah for details.

• 2-Clean place.

• 3-Men to perform Obligatory Salah at the Mosque (except for a legal excuse; illness, etc.); rest of prayers at home.

• 4-Women to perform Salah in the innermost places at home (they are allowed to pray at the Mosques, but not mandatory).

• 5-Wearing loose clothes that does not shape the private parts for men (and extend down until above the ankle), while women cover their entire bodies except face and hands.

• 6-Standing close to a Sutrah in front of the Musalee (person in prayer) [Sutrah: an object like a pillar, sticking or laying down on the ground, set so that no human or animal can walk in front of the person performing Salah].

General Guidelines:

• 1-Learn direction of Qiblah & times of prayer in your location (contact closest Sunni Mosque) or use the recommended app. (See Prayerly)

• 2-Learn the movements and shorter sentences. Practice what is to be said in prayers.

• 3-Work to learn the Recitation of the Opening Chapter in the Qur’an (the Faatiha).