Talk:Salah
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I moved the page information from namaaz to Salah because Salah is the more proper term and is the term you will find in Islamic texts. Namaaz is a localization of the term salah in numerous languages such as Urdu.
ThaGrind 08:55, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Spelling of 'Salah'
Are there any other variation to the english spelling of 'Salah'? The only problem with this spelling, I think, is that in the Malay/Indonesian language, the word salah literally means wrong. Could there be a variation? perhaps Solah or Solat? Thanks you. - Zaim 02:45, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- It is an Arabic language word, and the salah spelling is the only one that makes sense in most transliteration conventions. By the way, Spanish language used to have the word azalá for "(Muslim) prayer", which is featured for example in the Cansinos-Assens translation of the Qur'an into Spanish.
Method of calculation
Would someone like to add (I will try as well) to add a section about the methods of calculation? I know there is ISNA (using 15degrees for Fajr) and some Egyptian one that uses 19.5 both using Sha'afi jurisprudence... there are about 5 main ones in total. What are the differences between schools? What are the differences inside the single school allowed? How do they choose their angle? Let's see if we can answer questions like that. gren 00:42, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
if you have ideas start the section here
Methods of Calculation
The way in which prayer times are calculated vary from tradition to tradition.
Some external links follow
[1] (http://www.islamicsupport.net/htmlfiles/PrayerHelpFiles/help_utility.shtml)
[2] (http://www.ummah.net/astronomy/saltime/)
