Salah - Performing Prayers
Salah (Arabic: صلاة, Qur'anic Arabic: صلوة, pl. ṣalawah) (also munz in Pashto and namāz نماز in Persian, Bengali, Urdu and Turkish) is the ritual prayer practiced by Muslims in supplication to Allah, God. Salah, or Salah, is performed five times day:
1.Sunrise (Fajr)
2.Noon (Zohr)
3.Afternoon/Evening (Asr)
4.Sunset (Maghrib)
5.Nightfall (Isha'a).
Salah is obligoratory for all Muslims once they have reached puberty.
"As-Salah" is one of the Five Pillars of Islam in Sunni Islam and one of the ten Practices of the Religion in Shia Islam.
In central and South Asian languages such as Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Albanian language, South Slavic languages such as the Bosnian language, Našinski, Macedonian language and Turkic languages it is called namāz (نماز) from the Indo-European root meaning 'to bow or prostrate'.
The person performing As-Salah is a musallī (مصلى), while the traditional prayer mat on which prayer is performed is a musalla.