-5- Three Salat (Prayers) Authorised in the Quran The prayers mentioned by name in the Quran are 1- Salat Al-Fajr (Dawn Prayer)24:58 2- Salat Al-Isha (Night Prayer)24:58 3- Al-Salat Al-Wusta (The Middle Prayer) 2:238. However, 99% of all Muslims in the world claim that God decreed 5 daily prayers. Their 5 salat are: Fajr - Zhohr - Asr - Maghrib - Isha. They changed the name of the Salat Al-Wusta (The Middle Prayer) to Salat Al-Zhohr, and they added 2 salat which are the Asr and Maghrib. The question is: If the prescribed prayers are indeed five per day, why does the Quran have only three named salat? To research this issue we present the following points: First: Why are there only three named salat in the Quran? If it is true that God authorized 5 obligatory salat per day, then we must inquire as to why there are only 3 names of salat given in the Quran? The following explanations and their merits are put forward: 1- The names of the other salat are not in the Quran because the Quran does not contain all the details. This is a false claim because God tells us in 6:114 that the book is fully detailed and in 6:38 that nothing has been left out of the book: “Shall I seek other than God as a source of law when He has brought down to you this book fully detailed?” 6:114 “We did not leave anything out of the book” 6:38 2- God forgot to mention the other two names of salat! This option is also false, God does not forget: “He said, The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a record. My Lord never errs, nor does He forget. 20:52 3- God did not mention the names of the other 2 salat because they are not important. If the salat were not important they would not be compulsory, and as a result, to claim that there are five compulsory prayers becomes a false claim. 4- God did not mention the names of the other 2 prayers because God wants us to guess them! Once again this is false, the Quran is unambiguous and is not a book of puzzles: A.L.R. These are the signs of the clear book 12:1 We have made it (the Quran) easy to understand and in your own tongue (language) may you take heed. 44:58 5- God does not mention the names of the other 2 salat because God they can be found in the hadith. This is a false claim since we are commanded not to uphold any source of law other than the Quran (6:114, 7:3 and 5:48). We are also commanded specifically not to believe any hadith other than the Quran: “These are Gods revelations which we recite to you truthfully. In which Hadith other than God and His revelations do they believe?” 45:6 The fact that God deliberately used the words “in which hadith” are very significant. 6- God does not mention th e names of all the salat since they came to us through inherited rituals, and because God wants us to follow what we inherited from our parents even if it is not found in the Quran! Once again a claim that violates the Quran. In the Quran we are commanded not to follow what we inherited from our parents if it is not clearly found in the Quran: “And when they are told, Follow what God has revealed (Quran), they say, We follow only what we found our parents doing. What if their parents did not understand, and were not guided?” 2:170 7- God does not mention the names of the other 2 prayers, because there are no other 2 prayers according to the law of the Quran. The genuine believers who believe that the Quran contains all the details, with no ifs or buts, will not accept any option other than option 7. Second: Does the Quran give the exact times for each salat? God tells us that the time of each prayer is precisely given in the Quran kitaban mawqootan 4:103. The word kitaban which means book refers to the Quran, or to that which is written, and the word mawqootan means specifically timed. The deliberate use of these two words by God confirms that the precise appointed time for each of the prayers is given in the Quran. Once again this conforms to the fact that the Quran contains
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