Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
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God Almighty said: Preserve the prayers, and they are nothing but these specific, temporary, written five, and just as the five preserve themselves and others, which is the twentieth, which is the second contract of the ten of the ten, and the ten is the first of the contracts, and the least is the contract between two, so likewise the prayer was divided by the Truth into two halves, one half for Him and half for His servant. He made it between prohibition and permissibility. If the servant embarked on it, he did not devote himself to other deeds other than other lawful deeds, so he preserved himself so that it would be called prayer, for prayer is busy, and he preserved other things, which is the one praying, so that the name of the one praying and his rulings remain upon him. For this reason, God legislated it for five, then he specified the time. If someone says of Witr, it is redundant. On the five, it becomes six, we said, so it is not increased except by the one who memorize