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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 ...
Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت lit. ' Society of Preachers ', [5] [6] also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") [2] [3] [4] is an international Islamic religious movement [2] [3] focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant [1] and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [7] and ...
The Fajr prayer ( Arabic: صَلَاةُ الْفَجْر, romanized : Ṣalāt al-Fajr) is the salah (daily Islamic prayer) offered in the early morning. Consisting of two rak'a, it is performed between the break of dawn and sunrise. It is one of two prayers mentioned by name in the Quran. Due to its timing, Islamic belief holds the Fajr ...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are neighbouring countries in the Middle East and Persian Gulf region, and share extensive political and cultural ties. Saudi Arabia maintains an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate in Dubai of the UAE, while the UAE has an embassy in Riyadh and a consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Eid al-Fitr ( / ˌiːd əl ˈfɪtər, - trə / EED əl FIT-ər, -rə; Arabic: عيد الفطر, romanized : ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, lit. 'Feast of Breaking the Fast', IPA: [ʕiːd al ˈfɪtˤr]) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha ).
Masjid al-Haram ( Arabic: ٱَلْمَسْجِدُ ٱلْحَرَام, romanized : al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, lit. 'The Sacred Mosque'), [ 4] also known as the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, [ 5] is considered to be the most significant mosque in Islam. [ 6][ 7] It encloses the vicinity of the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province ...
The qibla is the direction of the Kaaba, a cube-like building at the centre of the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca, in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia. Other than its role as qibla, it is also the holiest site for Muslims, also known as the House of God (Bayt Allah) and where the tawaf (the circumambulation ritual) is performed during the Hajj and umrah pilgrimages.
The Saudi Arabia–United Arab Emirates border is 457 km (284 mi) in length and runs from the Persian Gulf coast in the west to the tripoint with Oman in the east. [ 1] The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates signed the Treaty of Jeddah in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 21 August 1974 between Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh ...