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Salat (Prayer)Salat (literally "supplication") is the second pillar of Islam. As a pillar it refers to the five compulsary daily prayers. However there are also optional prayers at specified occasions. Hadiths says that the first thing that one will be questioned about on the Day of Judgment is about the prayers, and that one will be successful in the hereafter if he passes this test satisfactorily. The significance of prayer can be gauged from the fact that one is not relieved from this duty even if one is sick, travelling or even at one's death bed. A prominent view, even though not unanimous, held by scholars is that abandoning the daily prayers would render one a Kafir (disbeliever). The Quran exhorts: "Establish Salat to remember me (Allah)" (20:14) Also, "Salat at fixed times has been enjoined on the believers (4:103)" Prophet Muhammad said: "Order you children to pray at the age of seven, and beat them to do so at the age of ten" (Ahmed) Also he said, "Between a man and polytheism (al-shirk) and disbelief (al-kufr) is the abandoning of the prayer" (Muslim)
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