QIYAM

Standing erect (during prayers)

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OBLIGATORY ACTS RELATING TO PRAYERS

There are eleven obligatory acts for prayers:

(i) Niyyat (intention).

(ii) Qiyam (standing erect).

(iii) Takbiratul Ehram(saying Allahu Akbar while commencing the prayers).

(iv) Ruku' (bowing).

(v) Sajdatayn (two prostrations).

(vi) Qiraat (recitation of Surah al-Hamd and other surah).

(vii) Zikr (prescribed recitation while bowing and prostrating).

(viii) Tashahhud (bearing witness after completing the prostrations of the second unit).

(ix) Salam (salutation).

(x) Tartib (sequence) (xi) Muwalat (to perform the different acts of prayers in regular order without stop).