Learn Salät

Salät is the Muslim form of formal worship. Muslims offer Salät five times a day. This page helps you learn how to offer Salät. Various parts of salät are given below. Click the name of the part to go there. Below is a list of offerings from this page.

A formal Prayer consists of units. One unit is a rak’ah and more than one units are raka’ät. A formal Islamic Prayer is 2, 3 or 4 raka’ät depending on the time of Prayer and the kind of Prayer.

There are two sajdahs in each rak’ah. Qa’da is performed in every second rak’ah and the last rak’ah. Only tashahhud is recited in a sitting (Qa’da) which is not the last one.

The Salät Guide

Download the entire Salaat Guide in mp3 format. (7.2 Mb)

Definitions –

Chapters

1. Definitions – Read this first to understand the parts of Salät
2. Adhän
3. Iqämah
4. Niyyah
5. Qiyäm
   (Takbir, Thanä, Ta’awwudh, Surah Al-Fätiha, Surah Al-Ikhläs)
6. Rukü
7. Sajdah
8. Qa’dah
   (Tashahhud, Durüd, Prayers from the Holy Quran)
9. Taslïm
10. Post-Prayer Dhikr
11. Du’ä Qunüt

Theme, pictures and portions of the above text are taken from poster titled Salat published by Majlis Ansarullah, U.S.A., an Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, U.S.A. This expanded version is presented by Aisha Maryam Ahmad.