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Rak'a
Unit of prayer in Islam equal to one iteration of a specific series of movements / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For places in Iran, see Rakat, Iran.
A Rak'a (Arabic: ركعة rakʿah, pronounced [ˈrakʕah] lit. "bow"; plural: ركعات rakaʿāt) is a single iteration of prescribed movements and supplications performed by Muslims as part of the prescribed obligatory prayer known as salah.[1] Each of the five daily prayers observed by Muslims consists of a number of raka'at.[1]
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