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"Therefore be patient with what they say, and "sabih bihamd rabika" (glorify your Lord with His praise) before the rise of

the sun and before it sets, and glorify Him during the night and at the ends of the day, so that you may find satisfaction"

20:130.

The advocates of 5 Salat per day stumble when reading the Quran as they cannot find names of 5 salat in the Quran. As a matter of fact, the Quran contains only 3 names of Salat and they are:

- Salat al-Fajr (Dawn prayer)

- Salat al-Wusta (Middle prayer)

- Salat al-Esha (Night prayer)

We find no names such as salat al-Asr or salat al Maghrib or salat al Zhohr anywhere in the Quran. We know that the Quran is fully detailed:

"Shall I seek other than God as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book which is fully detailed?" 6:114

Also that nothing has been left out of the book:

"We did not leave anything out of this book" 6:38

Sadly, the majority of the Muslim scholars and Imams claim that the Quran contains only the headlines of our religion but we need the sunna to get the details! Needless to say, if God says that the Quran is fully detailed (6:114) and that nothing has been left out of the book (6:38), then in actual fact these Imams either do not believe God or are calling God a liar !!! So it is not really worthwhile to even reply to their claim.

Others, who advocate 5 salat, but are not willing to ignore such verses such as 6:114 and 6:38, have tried to manipulate some Quranic verses to make their claim valid. Some have referred to 103:1 for example where the word Al-Asr is mentioned to say that this confirms a salat called Al-Asr. This claim is obviously totally false since nothing in Sura 103 speaks about salat. God only speaks of Asr as a time of day in 103:1.

Moreover, if we should instate a salat every time we read a time of day mentioned in the Quran, then we should also set up a salat called Al-Duha since this time of day is mentioned in 93:1 !!! But obviously we would be mistaken to do that since 93:1 speaks of a time of day and not to a salat, the same applies to 103:1.

Others have tried to manipulate 20:130 to claim that there are 5 salat per day. Let us read 20:130:

"Therefore be patient with what they say, and "sabih bihamd rabika" (glorify your Lord with His praise) before the rise of the sun and before it sets, and glorify Him during the night and at the ends of the day, so that you may find satisfaction".

The advocates of the 5 salat say that this verse gives us five times for salat during the day!

The obvious manipulation here is that 20:130 speaks about TASBEEH and not about SALAT.

Tasbeeh means glorifying God and we are invited to do this at all times when we are able.

But salat is a specifically structured ritual which contains lots more than glorifying God. When we glorify God we do just that, but when we observe salat, we have to do all the following:

Wudu (ablution), face Mecca (Qibla), glorify God through standing, bowing and prostrating.

But when we are glorifying God (Tasbeeh) we do NOT have to do wudu nor face Mecca ... etc. We can do tasbeeh (glorification) standing, sitting, sleeping ....etc .... we do not have to bow or prostrate to glorify God nor do we have to face Mecca to glorify God.

The conclusion is that Tasbeeh is NOT the same as Salat. Thus the times referred to in 20:130 are NOT times for salat, nor does 20:130 speak of salat.

When God is speaking about Salat God says SALAT. But when God speaks of just glorifying Him the word is Tasbeeh.

As in all cases, the Quran gives us verification and explanations for all things.

One glorious verse which sets the record straight and makes a clear difference between salat and tasbeeh is the following verse:

"Do you not realize that everyone in the heavens and the earth glorifies GOD, even the birds as they fly in a column? Each knows its salat (prayer) and its tasbeeh (glorification). GOD is fully aware of everything they do. " 24:41

This verse is very important because it proves that Tasbeeh and Salat are NOT the same thing. If they were, God would not have to say "each knows its salat and its tasbeeh", as this would be an unnecessary repetition.