Lesson video

Hello there, my young scholars of religion.

My name is Miss.

Marks and I'm going to be your religious education teacher today.

Today we're going to be doing all about Salah, which is an important list of practise.

It's one of the five pillars.

It's also in the 10 obligatory acts.

We're going to look at Salah and how it's done and also focus on how it might be done in the home as well as at the mosque.

So when you're ready, let's go.

So by the end of the lesson today, you'll be able to explain how and why Muslims perform Salah, both at home and in the mosque.

So let's start with our key terms. Jummah, Friday prayers in the mosque where a sermon, Khutbah, is heard.

Mosque, it's a communal place of worship for a Muslim community, also known as a Masjid.

Rak'ah, which is actions and ritual movements made during Salah prayer consisting of recitation, standing, bowing and prostration.

Wudu, ritual washing or ablution before praying and or touching the Quran.

So look out for those in today's lesson.

So our lesson today will have two sections, Salah in the home and Salah at the mosque.

So let's start with our first section then.

Salah in the home.

What activities do you do every single day? Is there any activities that you would say you do every single day without fail? Have a think about this.

You could talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

I wonder if you've got any of these, brushing your teeth every day, maybe writing in a journal or maybe you practise a musical instrument.

These are all things that people might do every single day.

Well, why might people do these three things every day or the thing that you do every single day? Why is it that people might have these practises that they do every single day? Pause the video again and have a think and you could talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Perhaps this is to do with building up a habit, maybe building a new skill, showing discipline and dedication to something or just about looking after yourself.

Doing something every single day shows that something matters to you.

It is important.

Now, Muslims are instructed to pray every single day, and this is known as Salah.

Salah is one of the five pillars of Islam.

We've got our five pillars here.

Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj and Salah is the second of the five pillars here and it's prayer.

Now, why do you think Salah is after the Shahadah? So the Shahadah is that testimony of faith.

There's no God but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God.

Why do you think Salah comes after that? Pause the video and have a think and you could talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Perhaps it's connected to if someone has a belief in God, then they might follow the practises and pray to that God every day.

And also pray in the way that Prophet Muhammad did as the messenger of Allah.

So what is Salah, daily worship in Islam then? When it's one of the five pillars of Islam, We've just seen that, it's also one of the 10 obligatory acts of Shi'a Islam.

It is instructed for all Muslims to perform this.

Prayers are said at set times in the day.

Prayers have set movements and phrases that are said and it's a form of worship of Allah.

So there are other prayers that happen in Islam.

There are other prayers that people can make, they can choose to make at different times.

But these prayers are the sort of set obligatory prayers that are there with certain things that are said, certain actions that are made and certain times of the day that they are said.

So let's have a think about a source of authority that could support Salah then.

Well, we can look to the Quran as the ultimate authority in Islam, isn't it? We can look to the Quran and see what it says about prayer and why it's important.

And in 29 it says, "Recite what is revealed to you of the scripture and perform the prayer.

The prayer prevents indecencies and evils and the remembrance of God is greater." So what does this tell us about Salah? What does this say about prayer? Pause the video and have a reread and you can talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Well here we've got this phrase, "Perform the prayer".

So it's an instruction.

It's something that people are told to do.

It's obligatory.

But the reason why is because it can prevent evils and indecencies.

It can maybe make someone more likely to make the right choices and do the right things in life and prevent them from doing the wrong things.

And also it can be part of remembrance of God.

So remembering God and the remembrance of God can also be part of prayer.

And then the surah also says, "So glorify the praise of your Lord and be among those who bow down and worship your Lord in order to attain certainty." So what does this show us about Salah or prayer in Islam then? Pause the video again.

Have a reread and talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Well here we've got this phrase bow down.

So this idea of praising God and praying to God involves bowing down and worshipping the Lord in order to retain certainty.

Maybe it's the certainty of their faith will become stronger, certainty of who they are is Muslim or it could be the certainty that they're going to spend the hereafter with Allah.

But we have this phrase here about bowing down.

So bowing down is connected to praising God.

So Aisha and Jun are discussing now how these sources of authority could encourage a Muslim to pray.

Aisha says, "For Muslims, praying can prevent them from committing sins.

In the Koran says that performing the prayer can help prevent indecencies and evil.

Praying could help a Muslim to do the right actions." And Jun says, "Irayer is also a physical action with bowing down, in the Quran when it says be among those who bow down, which links to why Muslims bow down to the ground when they're performing Salah." And what I really like about what Aisha and Jun have done here is they've said the source where it came from, the Quran, thank you, Aisha and Jun.

Now before Muslims pray, before they perform Salah, they're going to prepare mentally and physically before they even take part in doing the prayers.

And Jamila is gonna explain to us now.

Jamila says, "Before I pray, I set my intentions.

The intentions behind why we do actions is important in Islam as well as the action itself.

I make sure that my mind is focused on Allah.

As I pray, I say the phrase "Bismillah" which means in the name of Allah to remind me that my prayers and my worship of for Allah alone." So for Jamila, she sort of sets her mind ready before she even prays, setting that intention.

But we said that not only does a Muslim sort of set their mind to be ready for prayer, but also there are some physical actions to prepare the body for prayer too.

So before praying, Muslims also perform Wudu so this is a ritual washing which prepares the body for prayer.

So this is one of our key terms here, Wudu, and it's that ritual washing before prayer.

And it can also be before touching the Quran.

So here we've got a picture showing the different steps that happen in Wudu where somebody prepares themself, it involves washing the hands, mouth, nostrils, face, elbows, arms, ears and feet all get washed before somebody prays as a way of setting the body and getting ready for prayer.

So we said that this is a daily practise.

Salah is daily prayers, but it's not just once a day.

This happens, it's five daily prayers that are performed by Muslims as part of Salah, and those happen throughout the day.

So if you can imagine this is almost like a clock.

This is a day that's happening on our screen here.

And so we've got Fajr, prayer, which is said between dawn and sunrise, so as the day is kind of beginning.

And then Dhuhr, which is said just after solar noon, so just after midday.

Then Asr, which is said between mid to late afternoon, and then Maghrib, which is said at sunset, and then Isha, which is said after twilight and into the night.

So the whole day has these different prayers happening in here and you can link some of these prayers to what happens during Ramadan when people are fasting and they're fasting in the hours of sunlight.

So you can see which prayers might be at either end of that too.

Now I said that these are five daily prayers and they're said every day.

Sunni Muslims tend to say the five prayers at five separate times, but two of the prayers could be combined.

So the prayers from noon to mid afternoon and then from sunset into the night.

Those two are sometimes combined by Sunni Muslims, but they also tend to be combined by Shi'a Muslims. So the five prayers are said, but not every single Muslim would say them at five separate times, although the majority of Sunni Muslims would.

So any clean space can be used for prayers.

The prayer should always be said facing the Ka'aba.

So the Ka'aba is the cube shaped building that's in Mecca, that's a very special place.

And you might know about that from stories to do with Ibrahim and what happens on the Hajj pilgrimage.

So the prayers are all said facing that direction.

No matter where somebody is in the world, they pray facing that direction.

Sometimes Muslims will pray away from home, so they might pray at work.

It doesn't have to even be at home or in a special kind of room or a special place.

Any clean space can be used.

So here we've got a picture of Nadia who's praying at work and lots of different schools and workplaces might have spaces where people can go and pray.

We can also have people who pray at home that pray at home alone, might pray at home together.

Sometimes families pray together for example.

And then often you will have a prayer compass involved.

If somebody doesn't know the direction they're going to pray in from where they are, then the prayer compass can help.

Or it could be a separate compass, but often you'll have prayer mats that have got a compass at the front so people could see what the correct direction is for them to pray facing mecca.

So all Muslims across the world are all facing the same direction to pray towards the Ka'aba.

Okay, time for a quick check.

Is this true or false? Only Shi'a Muslims ever combine the five daily prayers into three separate times.

Is that true or false? Pause the video and have a think and we'll see what you done in a moment.

That is false, but why? Well, it's more common in Shi'a Islam for Muslims to combine the prayers and do them at three separate times.

Sunni Muslims are also permitted to do this for certain reasons.

So an important word for us to understand about the movements in prayer is prostrate.

And this comes from Latin prostrate here.

So pro, meaning before or forward, so ahead of you.

So it could be prologue or proclaim.

So for example, a prologue at the beginning of the book is telling you what's coming on ahead.

So it's about something being ahead of, and straight comes from sternere, which means to spread or layout.

So you've got stratus, clouds or stratification.

So this idea of something being ahead and spread out is what prostrating means.

So prostrating means to lie facing down and it's normally in a position of worship or submission.

So if somebody prostrates, they're kind of bowing down, lying down, headfirst onto the ground and sort of bowing down ahead of something else.

So this is what prostrating is and it features within Salah.

Prostration is one of the movements in Salah, the different movements we said the rak'ah, the different movements that happen.

This is one of the actions that happens prostrate.

So during each prayer time, a set of phrases and movements are repeated and this is known as a rak'ah.

And here we've got a picture of Iqbal here showing us one of the movements that he's doing as part of that of his prayers.

Here's Ahmed showing us the different steps then.

So we have hands up and then hands together, we can have leaning forward and then prostrating to the ground.

So these are some of the movements that happen as part of Salah prayer.

So Ahmed is showing us the different positions in a Rak'ah and Iqbal is going to show us the movements in a Rak'ah in the video clip.

So these movements are based on how Muhammad prayed, this is how Muslims are praying today according to the sources that they have.

(speaking in foreign language) Now there is some diversity in how Muslims perform Salah because the Koran instructs Muslims to pray, so all Muslims pray and then they would look to the example of the Prophet Muhammad to know how to pray.

So how to actually do those prayers, Muslims look to the Prophet Muhammad, but how would they know how the prophet Muhammad prayed then? How would they know what he did if we haven't got video footage or photos or anything like that showing us how the Prophet Muhammad prayed? Well this is known through the Hadith.

The example of the prophet Muhammad for lots of different things is known through the Hadith, which are narration about his life stories about what he said to people, what he did, how he behaved.

So this is how Muslims know what they should do to follow his example.

But different groups of Muslims might interpret those Hadiths differently.

So they might read it differently and interpret how to behave in a different way.

And some groups of Muslims see some Hadiths as more authentic than others.

So did he really do and say those things or not? Because it's come down through a chain of different people.

So some Muslims might accept some Hadiths, some Muslims might interpret them differently to one another.

So that leads to a diversity in the practises we might see around us within Islam.

So here's an example here we've got Rasool and Iqbal praying.

Now some collections of Hadith say that the Prophet Muhammad prayed with his hands by his side.

So here we've got Rasool who's a Shi'a Muslim who accepts that Hadith and thinks, yeah, he prayed with his hands by his side so I'm gonna pray with my hands by my side at that point during my prayer movement.

And some Sunni Muslims also do that.

But other collections of Hadith say the Prophet Muhammad crossed his right arm over his left during prayer.

So there's Hadith that say, oh yes, he crossed his hand over here.

So that's how we are going to do it.

So that's why Iqbal is standing the way that he is as our Sunni Muslim.

But some Sunni Muslims also do what Rasool is doing here.

So we have some diversity depending on the Hadith that Muslims will be reading.

Here's a second example.

Some collections of Hadith say that the Prophet Muhammad prayed on the earth on mud and there's a Hadith that says that once he prayed on the mud and he had mud on his forehead, showing just how much he had prostrated onto the ground in prayer.

So some Muslim like to pray on the earth or the ground because they believe that's what the Prophet Muhammad did from that Hadith.

So here we got she Muslim and prey on a Turbah, which is a piece of earth here.

Other Hadith say the Prophet Muhammad prayed on a mat made of reeds.

So he was praying on a human made mat.

So sometimes Sunni Muslims will want to pray on a carpet or a prayer mat like the one saw in the video that Iqbal was praying on.

And so some Muslims choose to pray on a mat rather than directly on the ground.

So here we can see how the Hadith can lead to that diversity in practise.

Both Muslims are praying, they're both prostrating, that's what the Quran said to do, but what they might pray on could have some diversity.

Let's do another check.

Which two statements are correct about Salah in Islam? Salah means the five daily prayers for Muslims. Salah has performed facing the nearest mosque.

Salah ends with Muslims performing Wudu, Salah involves rak'ahs, which are involving prostrating and other movements.

Pause the video and have a go and we'll see what you done in a moment.

Well done, the two that were correct are Salah means the five daily prayers for Muslims and it involves Rak'ah, which is prostrating in different movements.

It is performed facing Ka'aba and it is started with Wudu, not ended with it, well done.

So let's do a practise task to see what we've learned then.

So we've seen there some diversity between Sunni and Shi'a Islam on how Salah has actually performed.

We're gonna complete this table with the points that are more likely to apply to how Rasool, a Shi'a Muslim or Iqbal, a Sunni Muslim perform Salah.

So there is still diversity within those different interpretations, but what they be more likely to do from this bullet point? the points are pray on something natural, EG, earth, turbah, pray on a human made mat, usually combine prayers to three separate times.

May unusually combine prayers to three separate times.

Usually pray with arms crossed at the front, pray with arms down by the side.

So which of those are more likely to apply to Rasool the shi'a Muslim and Iqbal the Sunni Muslim then? Pause the video and have a go and we'll see what you've done in a moment.

Well done some great thinking there.

And yes, there is always diversity, even within different branches of Islam.

But generally we could say that Rasool will pray on something natural, EG an earth turbah, and he will usually combine prayers to do three separate times.

So says all five prayers, but at three separate times.

And he'll usually pray with his arms by his sides.

Iqbal, a Sunni muslim will usually pray on a human made mat.

He may sometimes combine the three prayers, but generally he'll say the five prayers at five times and he'll usually pray with his arms crossed at the front.

Well done.

So onto our second section then, Salah at the mosque.

So the word mosque comes from Arabic.

We had a Latin word earlier, this is Arabic.

The original Arabic term is Masjid.

So you might see that sometimes written where there's a mosque, sometimes might be called a mosque, sometimes called a masjid.

So we can always look at the root letters of Arabic terms to better understand what they actually mean.

Now the root letters for Masjid is the SJ and D, sjd, meaning to bow down or prostrate.

So sometimes a Muslim boys might be given the name Sajid, which means the one who prostrates.

So a mosque, which is sort of an anglicised version of Masjid is a place of prostration, worship and submission to Allah.

Many Muslims will attend the mosque to pray and prostrate together.

So it's a place of prostration where people come together to prostrate and it could be as simple as that, as just a place where people can come and prostrate together.

But mosques will often but not always have these features.

So the main thing is to have a space where people can pray together.

We've got a prayer hall, but many mosques will also have a dome as a feature and a minaret, which is where the call to prayer is called from to call people to come and pray.

And the domes can be there as a symbol of the oneness and the unity of God.

And also they can help with amplification and the sound with people in the prayer hall if they're listening to talks and things like that.

A mosque can provide a place for communal prayer, a place for Quranic classes in Islamic education, adult learning about Islam, especially if someone's a revert and they want to learn about Islam.

There could be community sessions and support, lots of things happening to support the Muslims and others in the community around the area.

And lots of mosques involved with interfaith dialogue, working with other religions and also open days, welcoming people in to kind of learn more and understand more about Islam.

And within mosques there will often be, but not always, these features which help Muslims to perform Salah.

So let's see if we can link some of these things to what happens in Salah.

Mosques often have a call to prayer from the minarets to call people to come and pray for those different times of day.

So if you live somewhere near to where there's a mosque that's doing the call to prayer, you'll hear it at those different times and it reminds everyone to come to pray with that call to prayer.

So there'll often, but not always be a Wudu area, so an ablution area.

So it might be within the mosque or in the grounds of the mosque, a space where people can go to wash to then come in to pray.

And here you've got a row of seats people could sit and do the washing.

'Cause remember it involves the feet as well.

There will often be a prayer space.

In fact, that's probably the main thing that the mosque will have, no matter what else it has as features because it's that space for people to prostrate together.

It's a place of prostration, a place of prayer together.

And it will also often have a Qibla or something which shows the direction of prayer.

So we saw earlier at home a Muslim might have their own compass, or they might have it on their prayer mats or wherever they are, they know which way they're facing to face Ka'aba.

And also mosques will often have a direction of prayer, sometimes called a Qibla.

So this shows Muslims which direction they need to pray in, but why would they have a direction of prayer? Can you remember what that direction is? Pause the video and have a think and you can talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

So wherever that mosque is in the world, it's gonna be facing towards the Ka'aba, that direction of prayer.

So that means that all Muslims around the world are all praying towards the same direction.

So let's do another check.

Which of the following is the meaning of the root word of mosque or masjid? Which of these was the word that was that root word with the, so pause the video and have a go.

We'll see what you come up with in a moment.

Well done, it was prostration, that bowing down in prayer.

Well done.

So now we can think about Jummah prayer.

So this is another one of our keywords, Jummah.

So this is the Friday congregational prayer.

And in this image here, I love this fisheye image of how many people have gathered together to pray side by side in this mosque here.

Friday midday dhuhr prayer is when Juba prayer happens.

So it's Friday midday is when people come together to pray that communal prayer in the mosque.

It's congregational, so there's many Muslims together praying and a sermon or a khutbah is given.

So in the place of some of the movements or the recitations, a sermon is given.

So as part of Jummah prayer, a sermon or a khutbah or a talk about the religion is given to the people there.

So it's an opportunity people to learn a bit more about Islam and think about how it might apply into their daily lives.

Now for Jummah prayer, men are obligated to go, it's an obligation that men are expected and obligated to go, but women and children can choose to go.

Why a Friday for Jummah prayer? Well for Muslims, some Muslims believe that Adam May have been created on a Friday.

So it's linking to that idea of Adam being the first Prophet and the whole kind of purpose and nature of humanity being here.

And some muslims believe the last day will be on a Friday.

So the last day where the world's gonna end and then there'll be the resurrection and judgement day.

So that is a very important belief within Islam.

And some muslims believe that will be on a Friday.

So even just being there on a Friday and praying can help Muslims to think about that.

But perhaps they might also think maybe they'll be there the day that that happens.

So this is called Jummah prayer, which means Friday in Arabic.

So how could we link Jummah and another important word in Islam, Umma together.

Do you know the meaning of Umma? Umma, meaning the worldwide community of Muslims. How could that link with Jummah? Pause the video and have a think and you could talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

So if Umma is the worldwide community of Muslims and Jummah is congregational prayer, both those words I think are connected to being a community and being together.

And that's really what Jummah prayer's about is coming and praying side by side.

Perhaps you've been the only Muslim praying on your own on your daily prayers.

Maybe you don't work with anyone who's a Muslim and then you've come together and you pray with others for Jummah prayer once a week.

So what source of authority can we use to think about this importance of Jummah prayer then? Well let's go to the Quran as the ultimate source of authority in Islam and is 62 it says, "When the call is made for prayer on congregation day, Jummah, hasten the remembrance of God and drop all business, then when the prayer is concluded, disperse through the land and seek God's bounty and remember God much that you may prosper." So how does this source of authority support the practise of Jummah prayer then, that Friday congregational prayer, pause video and have a reread and you can talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Well done, it's got here the idea of going to Jummah prayer by dropping all your business.

So whatever you are up to on that Friday, that Friday lunchtime, you just leave that business, whatever it is you're doing, work or study or play and then you come to pray with others and it's gonna help you to remember God and then you're gonna prosper when you go back out into the world again.

We've got here leave your business and join the congregational prayer, but then return to your business and remember God.

So you go back to whatever you were doing before now with this idea of God and seeking God's bounty.

So Aisha's gonna ask Tareeq, who's an Imam, what happens in Juba prayer at his mosque then? So an imam of the local mosque leads the prayers and helps to kind of lead that congregation and we'd give the Khutbah or that sermon on the Friday at Jummah prayer.

So Tareeq says "I lead prayers through the week at the mosque, but on a Friday Jummah for dhuhr, midday prayer, we have the largest number of people who come.

I give a talk about Islam to the community and we pray together.

It also gives us time to catch up and check in with each other.

A large number of men come to pray, but also many women come to pray in a separate space in the prayer hall." So Tareeq's telling us here that more people come on a Friday, it's open the rest of the week, but more people tend to come on a Friday.

Well why do more people attend prayer on a Friday than other days then? Can you link it to a source of authority we've had a look at already, pause the video and reread it and you can talk to a person next to you or talk to me.

Well there's that instruction to leave your business and come to Jummah prayer for that congregational prayer on the Friday.

And now Jun is asking Jamila, who goes to Jummah prayer.

If you remember, women are not obligated to go to the prayer on a Friday, but some women can choose to and Jamila does choose to.

Let's see why.

"Do you attend the Jummah prayer at the mosque Jamila?" And Jamila says, "It's not obligatory for me to attend Gemma prayer, but I do.

The prophet Muhammad said that women must not be prevented from praying at the mosques.

I choose the mosque I attend as it has an area of the hall reserved for women and women involved in the leadership of the mosque as trustees." So Jamila is choosing to go to Jummah prayer here and she chose her mosques because it has a special area for women to be able to pray in the main prayer hall.

And she likes the fact that there are women involved in the mosque as trustees.

And Jamila has also said here, the prophet Muhammad said that women must not be prevented from praying at the mosques.

Why might he said that they must have access to mosques and not be prevented? Pause the video and have a think and you could talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

Well, within Islam there are many teachings about men and women having equal opportunities and being equal in the eyes of God.

So for the prophet Muhammad here, he was highlighting that women should be able to come and pray and there should be nothing that prevents them from coming.

So time for another check then.

Is this true or false? Muslims only attend the mosques to pray on a Friday for Jummah prayers.

Is that true or false? Pause the video and have a go and we'll see what you come up with in a moment.

That is false, isn't it, but why? Well Muslims may attend and pray at the mosque anytime during the week, but Jummah prayers are obligatory for Muslim men, optional for men and women so often have more people there because it is that obligatory prayer.

But it's open throughout the whole week and people can attend and pray all those different prayers if they want to at the mosque.

So Mustafa and Iqbal are discussing now if Jummah prayer is the most important prayer for muslims. So we said we've got the five daily prayers, but then also once a week we've got the Jummah prayer.

Is that the most important prayer for Muslims? Let's see what they say.

Mustafa says "Jummah prayers are the most important because we pray together as a community, praying side by side.

We also learn more about Islam from the Imam." And Iqbal says "Daily prayers are more important as everyone is obligated to do this, not just the men.

Also it shows a daily constant commitment to Allah." So I wonder which one you think is more convincing.

Is it that Jummah prayers are more important or that daily prayers are more important? Which view do you find the most convincing and why? So pause the video and have a think and reread their different points.

You can talk to the person next to you or talk to me.

So let's work on this a bit more whether Jummah prayers or daily prayers could be seen as more important.

We've seen there can be different views on whether Jummah prayer is the most important prayer in Islam.

So we are going to together give one reason why Jummah prayer could be the most important prayer in Islam.

Hmm, that was what Mr was saying wasn't it? I think because it's a congregational prayer where the community comes together, so you have that real sense of togetherness and everyone together as a community.

So over to you then.

Give one reason why Jummah prayer might not be the most important prayer in Islam.

So you could think about what Iqbal was just saying to us about the daily prayers being more important.

Pause a video and have a go and we'll see what we've got in a moment.

It could be that daily prayers are a obligatory for everyone, no matter if they're male or female.

Jummah prayer is only obligatory for men, well done.

So let's do a practise task to see what we've learned then.

So here's a full evaluation question and the statement is, Jummah prayer is the most important prayer for Muslims. And what we are going to do is using some of the thinking we were just doing from Mustafa Iqbal's points there about whether Jummah prayer is more important or the daily prayers are more important, we are going to think about different points that could be used to support this statement and go against this statement or for a different point of view.

So you're gonna see a table on the next slide which has got different points and you're going to decide which side of the argument would they support.

Are they going to be in favour of the statement or for a different point of view? And then you can decide looking at those points which one you think is stronger.

So you are doing a discussion of the statement by showing these different points of view, you'll be referring to religion and you're going to make up your mind as to which one you think might be the stronger argument.

And here are our points.

The statement we remember Jummah prayer is the most important prayer for Muslims and here are the points you're going to decide if they're for or against.

Daily prayers show a greater commitment to Allah and Islam.

Muslims are instructed to drop their business and attend Jummah prayer.

Both genders should perform Salah, which is more important than Jummah, which is optional for women.

And praying beside others and hearing a talk on Islam can strengthen a Muslim's faith.

So are they for or against the statement? And then you're going to write a sentence stating which side you think is stronger.

So pause the video and have a go and we'll see what you've done in a moment.

Well I've done some really good thinking there.

So your table should look like this.

Daily prayers show a greater commitment to Allah and Islam.

So that would be against the statement 'cause that's saying that it's not Jummah prayers most important, it's the daily prayers.

Second statement, Muslims are instructed to drop their business and attend Jummah prayer.

Well that's obviously saying that Jummah prayer is important.

You've gotta drop your business and that you have to go and do Jummah prayer 'cause it's instructed in the Quran.

So that would be for the statement.

Both genders should perform Salah, which is more important than Jummah, which is optional for women.

Well this point could be against the statement because if Salah is obligatory for everybody, because if Salah is something that's obligatory for everyone to do, then surely that shows it's more important than something which could be optional for some people to do.

And finally, praying beside others and hearing a talk on Islam can strengthen a Muslim's faith.

Well this one is for the statement because that's when Jummah prayer is when people come and pray together side by side.

And for the second part of your practise task, your response might look something like this.

I asked you to say which side you think is stronger.

So you could say the arguments for the statement are stronger because Jummah prayer is when the community come together and pray side by side.

Or you might have said, the arguments against the statement are stronger because daily prayers show a greater commitment and focus on Allah than a prayer once a week.

So while done for your hard work there.

So let's summarise everything we've learned today.

Salah is a daily act of worship with five prayers said.

There are different times set for this with set movements and recitations known as Rak'ah.

Muslims prepare for Salah by ritual washing known as wudu.

Salah is always prayed, facing the Ka'aba and in a clean place.

There are some diversity between how Sunni and she Muslims may perform Salah.

Friday and midday prayers are congregational prayers at the mosque and they're known as Jummah.

And men are obligated to addend Jummah prayers, women and children can choose to.

So well done for your hard work today and I hope to see you again soon, bye-bye.