The Islamic Mode of Worship — Page 1
1 ِ الْکَرِیْم ِ رَسُوْلِہ ع羡َٰ ِّْ وَنُصَل ٗ نَْمَدُہ ِ الرَّحِیْم ِ الرَّحْٰن ِّٰ للا ِ بِسْم I have written this brief essay for those pious souls and lovers of truth residing in Europe, who through their God given reason and intellect, have recognised that everything they were previously told about Islam emanated from the prejudices of agents of the Church. And now that they wish to gain a fresh and truer perspective into Islam, I intend here to elucidate on a most incomparable institution; one which is considered an essential practice of Islam—that is the nam a z 2. PURPOSE OF WORSHIP But, before I explain in greater detail how Muslims perform the nam a z , or before I proceed to translate the various passages a worshipper recites therein, I consider 1 In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. We praise Allah, the Exalted, the Greatest, and we invoke His blessings on His Holy Messenger sa. [Publishers] 2 The Arabic word s al a t is the commonly used term for the formal Islamic prayer. In the current translation, however, the Persian nam a z has been adopted as that is the word which appears throughout the original Urdu. [Publishers]