Today we have been learning about Salah. Salah is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and it is about prayer. we looked at the powerpoint about the Five Pillars of Islam and we found out that it is about prayer and that Muslims have to wash parts of their body before they pray. There are certain times to pray and Muslims pray 5 times a day. Muslims must face Mecca when they pray.
Then we were set a task to find out more information such as…
Which direction is Mecca from Chryston?
Why Muslims wash before they pray and which parts of the body are washed?
What times during the day do Muslims pray?
Here are our answers…
Mecca is south east from Chryston. In our classroom that means we would have to face the back left corner of the room.
Muslims wash before praying because they should be clean before presenting themselves to their god. They wash hands, feet and face.
Muslims pray before sunrise, when the sun is at its highest, in the afternoon, at sunset and in between sunset and midnight.
We used our internet searching skills to find out this information. The hardest part was probably working out the direction of Mecca.
