

Prayer times vary each day as they adjust to the shift in sunrise and sunset through the year. So what are the prayer times for the Birmingham area? It's preferable for Muslims to go to their local mosque for prayers but this was not always possible during the restrictions of the pandemic and it's also permissible to pray at home, at work, or in public spaces. READ MORE: Islamic Calendar 2022 - All the dates of Muslim holidays, festivals and months These prayers are known respectively as fajr, dhuhr, asr, maghrib, and isha.

Worshippers perform the daily prayers early in the morning before sunrise, and then at midday, in the afternoon before sunset, in the evening after sunset, and at night. So one of the five pillars of Islam for Sunni Muslims is salah, salat or namaz, all of which mean prayer - the other pillars being declaration of faith (shahada), charitable donations to the poor (zakat), fasting (sawm) and pilgrimage (the Hajj annual journey to Mecca ). This was an instruction said to have been given to the Prophet Muhammad by Allah on the Night of Ascent to heaven.

Praying is a central feature of Muslim life with followers of the faith having to perform this act of worship five times every day.
