Prayer timings
As we know that there are five mandatory prayers each day. These mandatory prayers are to be offered in specified times of the day. The timing of these five prayers are linked with the movements of sun and hence this timing varies from place to place and from day to day. The basic principle to determine the prayer time is as under:
| Start | End | |
|---|---|---|
| Fajr | When whitishness begins to appear on the horizon (dawn) | At beginning of sunrise |
| Duhr | After sun’s trailing limb crosses meridian | Start of Asr |
| Asr | When length of shadow becomes equal to the length of object & noon shadow | Before sunset |
| Maghrib | Sunset | Reddishness in the sky (Dusk) |
| Isha | After reddishness in sky (dusk) ends | Midnight* |
* Although Isha prayer can be offered till next Fajr, but it is consider “makruh” after mid-night.
The exact prayer timings for a particular location can be checked from different web-sites, such as Islamic Finder which claims to have data for six million cities world-wide for different countries including United States of America (USA), Canada, United Kingdom (UK), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia & Philippines.
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