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The Isha prayer ( Arabic: صلاة العشاء ṣalāt al-ʿišāʾ, "night prayer") is one of the mandatory five daily Islamic prayers, and contains four cycles . The five daily prayers collectively are one pillar of the Five Pillars of Islam in Sunni Islam, and one of the ten Practices of the Religion ( Furū al-Dīn) according to Shia Islam .
Siege of Lal Masjid. The siege of Lal Masjid ( Urdu: لال مسجد محاصرہ; code-named Operation Sunrise[ 4][ 5][ 6]) was an armed confrontation in July 2007 between Islamic fundamentalist militants and the government of Pakistan, led by president Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Shaukat Aziz. The focal points of the operation were ...
Minaret height. 90 m (300 ft) Site area. 130,000 m 2; 1,400,000 sq ft. The Faisal Mosque ( Urdu: فیصل مسجد, romanized : faisal masjid) is the national mosque of Pakistan, located in the capital city, Islamabad. [ 1][ 2] It is the fifth-largest mosque in the world, the largest mosque outside the Middle East, and the largest within South ...
To calculate prayer times two astronomical measures are necessary, the declination of the sun and the difference between clock time and sundial clock. This difference being the result of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and the inclination of its axis, it is called the equation of time. The declination of the sun is the angle between sun's ...
The Maghrib prayer ( Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers). If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one. According to Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after sunset, following Asr prayer, and ends at the beginning of night, the start of ...
Ahmadiyya, [a] officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) [4] [b] is an Islamic messianic [5] [6] movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. [7] [8] [9] It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by ...
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.
Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistan's second Prime Minister, argued against equal rights for all citizens in an Islamic state. [23] However, The Constitution of Pakistan establishes Islam as the state religion, [24] and provides that all citizens have the right to profess, practice and propagate their religion subject to law, public order, and morality. [25]