Establish Prayer and Exalt God at Appointed Times

So Establish Prayer and Exalt Before the Rising of the Sun, in the Morning, at Noon, in the Afternoon, and Before Sunset, and Stand and Prostrate During the Night, and Arise from Sleep as Additional [Prayer] for you

11:114, Qur'an
Establish prayer [salat] at the two ends of the day, and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds. That is a reminder for those who remember.

17:78 - 79, Qur'an
And establish prayer [salat] at the decline of the sun, at the darkness of the night, and [also] a recitation at dawn. Indeed, a recitation at dawn is witnessed. And from [part of] the night, arise from sleep as additional [prayer] for you; it is expected that your Lord will raise you to a praiseworthy station.

19:59, Qur'an
But successors came after them who neglected prayer [salat] and pursued desires; so they are going to meet error.

50:39, Qur'an
So be patient over what they say and exalt [God] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting,

33:42, Qur'an
And exalt Him morning and afternoon.

30:18, Qur'an
[For all] praise is [due] to Him throughout the heavens and the earth. And [He is Exalted] at [late] afternoon and when you are at noon.

76:26, Qur'an
And prostrate to Him during the night and exalt Him for a long [part of the] night.

4:103, Qur'an
…[For] indeed, prayer [salat] has been [decreed] upon the believers in a Book at appointed times.

2:238, Qur'an
[So] be watchful of the prayers [salawati] and the middle prayer [salat] and stand devoutly obedient before God.

Sections of Prayer

All Things Exalt God - the Seven Heavens and the Earth and whatever is in them Exalt Him, We Even Subjected the Mountains to Praise with David

So Exalt God Before the Rising of the Sun and Before its Setting, and Exalt [Him] During Periods of the Night, and at the Ends of the Day, and He is Exalted at Noon

64:1, Qur'an
Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth is exalting God. The kingdom [belongs] to Him, and [all] praise [belongs] to Him, and He is Powerful over all things.

24:41, Qur'an
[Or] do you not see that God is exalted by whomever is within the heavens and the earth, and [by] the birds with wings spread?   Each [of them] has certainly known his [means of] prayer and exalting [Him], and God is Knowing of what they do.

38:18 - 19, Qur'an
[For] indeed, We subjected the mountains to praise with David, exalting God in the [late] afternoon and at sunrise.  And the birds were assembled, all repeating [praises] with him.

17:44, Qur'an
[And indeed,] the seven heavens and the earth and whatever is in them exalt Him.  And there is not a thing except that it exalts [God] by His praise, but you do not understand their [way of] exalting.  Indeed, He is Forbearing and Forgiving.

20:130, Qur'an
So be patient over what they say and exalt [God] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting, and exalt [Him] during periods of the night, and at the ends of the day, so that you may be satisfied.

15:98, Qur'an
So exalt [God] with praise of your Lord and be among those who prostrate [to Him].

Whatever is in the Heavens and on the Earth Prostrates to God - and their Shadows as Well in the Mornings and Afternoons

And Moses Also Prostrated to God, and Jesus Fell on his Face and Prayed, so Prostrate and Bow with those who Bow

3:43, Qur'an
Be devoutly obedient to your Lord and prostrate and bow with those who bow -

55:6, Qur'an
[For even] the stars and trees prostrate [to God].

13:15, Qur'an
[For] whoever is within the heavens and the earth prostrates to God, willingly or by compulsion, and their shadows [as well] in the mornings and the afternoons.

2:43, Qur'an
[So] establish prayer and give purifying [alms] and bow with those who bow.

32:15, Qur'an
[For] they only believe in Our verses - those who, when they are reminded by them, fall down in prostration and exalt [God] with praise of their Lord, and they are not arrogant -

Exodus 34:8, Old Testament
[For remember] Moses, [when he] made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and prostrated [to God].

Sirach 50:17, Apocrypha
[And remember that] all the people hasted together, and fell down to the earth upon their faces to prostrate to their Lord God Almighty, the Most High.

48:29, Qur'an
…[And thus] you see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from God and [His] pleasure.  Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration.  That is their description in the Torah…

Matthew 26:39, New Testament
[Even Jesus] went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed…

53:62, Qur'an
So prostrate to God and serve [Him].

When you Stand for Prayer, Wash your Faces and your Forearms to the Elbows and Wipe over your Heads and Wash your Feet to the Ankles, but if you do Not Find Water, Seek Clean Earth

For God Intends to Purify you, and so if you are Impure, then Purify yourselves, and do Not Approach Prayer while you are Impure Until you have Washed

5:6, Qur'an
O you who have believed, when you stand for prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles.  And if you are impure, then purify yourselves.  But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have touched women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and hands with it.  God does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you so that you may be grateful.

4:43, Qur'an
[But] do not approach prayer while you are impure, O you who have believed, except those passing [through] a way, until you have washed; [and do not approach prayer while you are] intoxicated until you know what you are saying. And if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and find no water, then seek clean ground and wipe over your faces and your hands [with it]. Indeed, God is Pardoning and Forgiving.

For Each Religion is a Direction which it Faces in Prayer, so Turn your Face Toward the Forbidden House

Indeed, it is the First House Established for Mankind at Bakkah - There are Clear Signs in it Such as the Standing Place of Abraham

2:148, Qur'an
For each [religious following] is a direction toward which it faces.  So race to [all that is] good.  Wherever you may be, God will bring you forth all together.  Indeed, God is Powerful over all things.

2:142, Qur'an
[But] the foolish among the people will say, "What has turned them away from their direction of prayer, which they used to face?" [So] say, "The east and the west [belong] to God. He guides whomever He wills to a straight path."

2:149, Qur'an
So from wherever you go out [for prayer,] turn your face toward the Forbidden [House], and indeed, it is the truth from your Lord.  And God is not unaware of what you do -

2:144, Qur'an
[For] We have certainly seen the turning of your face, toward the heaven, and We will surely turn you to a direction of prayer which you will be pleased with. So turn your face toward the Forbidden [House] [in Bakkah].  And wherever you are, turn your faces toward it [in prayer]. Indeed, those who have been given the Scripture well know that it is the truth from their Lord. And God is not unaware of what they do -

2:146 - 147, Qur'an
[For] those to whom We gave the Scripture know [Abraham] as they know their own sons.  But indeed, a group of them conceal the truth while they know [it]. [But] the truth is from your Lord, so never be among the doubters -

3:96 - 97, Qur'an
[For] indeed, the first House established for mankind was that at Bakkah - blessed and a guidance for the worlds. There are clear signs in it [such as] the standing place of Abraham. And whoever enters it will be safe…

2:127, Qur'an
And when Abraham was raising the foundations of the House, and Ishmael [with him, they said,] "Our Lord, accept [this] from us.  Indeed You are the Hearing, the Knowing.

14:37, Qur'an
Our Lord, I have settled some of my descendants in an uncultivated valley near Your Forbidden House, our Lord, so that they may establish prayer…"

2:150, Qur'an
[So] from wherever you go out [for prayer,] turn your face toward the Forbidden [House]. And wherever you may be, turn your faces toward it in order that the people will not have any argument against you, except for those of them who commit wrong; so do not fear them but fear Me. And [it is] so I may complete My favor upon you and so that you may be guided.

2:115, Qur'an
[But] the east and the west [belong] to God. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of God. Indeed, God is Encompassing and Knowing.

Seek Help through Patience and Prayer by Being with those who Call on their Lord in the Morning and Afternoon

And Say to God, "It is You we Ask for Help, so Guide us to the Straight Path, Not of those who Neglected Prayer, for they are Going to Meet Error"

2:153, Qur'an
O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer.  Indeed, God is with the patient.

18:28, Qur'an
[So] keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the [late] afternoon, seeking His Countenance. And do not let your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is [in] neglect.

2:45, Qur'an
[So] seek help [from God] through patience and prayer, and indeed, it is difficult except for the humble [to God].

1:5 - 7, Qur'an
[So say,] "It is You we serve and it is You we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path - the path of those whom You have bestowed favor upon, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray."

17:80 - 81, Qur'an
And say, "My Lord, cause me to enter a sound entrance and to exit a sound exit and grant me a supporting authority from Yourself."  And say, "Truth has come, and falsehood has departed.  Indeed falsehood is bound to depart."

3:8, Qur'an
[And say,] "Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us and grant us mercy from Yourself.  Indeed, You are the Bestower."

Establish Prayer for the Remembrance of God Alone and do Not Invoke Anyone with God

And God has Permitted Houses to be Raised so that His Name Alone may be Remembered Therein in the Morning and Afternoons

20:14, Qur'an
Indeed, I am God. There is no god except Me, so serve Me, and establish prayer for My remembrance.

7:205, Qur'an
[So] remember your Lord within yourself in humility and in fear without being apparent in speech - in the mornings and the afternoons. And do not be among the heedless -

3 Nephi 19:18, Book of Mormon
[Such as those who, when] they began to pray; they prayed to Jesus, calling him their "Lord" and their "God."

72:18, Qur'an
[But He revealed] that the places of prostration are for God, so do not invoke anyone with God.

Luke 6:12, New Testament
[Even Jesus] went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Acts 10:2, New Testament
[And remember that there was a] devout [man], and one who feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people, and he prayed to God always.

Psalms 119:55, Old Testament
[And so] I [too] have remembered Your name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept Your law.

33:41, Qur'an
[So] O you who have believed, remember God with much remembrance -

76:25, Qur'an
[So] remember the name of your Lord morning and afternoon -

24:36 - 37, Qur'an
[Including] in Houses [of God] which God has permitted to be raised and so that His name may be remembered therein; [for] exalting Him within them in the morning and the afternoons [are] men whom neither commerce nor sale distracts from the remembrance of God and establishing prayer and giving of purifying [alms]. They fear a Day in which the hearts and eyes will [fearfully] turn about.

29:45, Qur'an
[So] recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and establish prayer. Indeed, prayer forbids immorality and wrongdoing, and the remembrance of God [in prayer] is greater. And God knows that which you do.

God Answers the Prayers and Supplications of those who have Believed and done Righteous Deeds, for He is the Hearer of Supplication

Thus, when Jesus had Offered up Prayers to God who was Able to Save him from Death, he was Heard; and when Zacharias was Standing in Prayer, the Angels Called him with Good News of John

2:186, Qur'an
And [thus,] when My servants ask you, concerning Me - indeed I am near.  I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me.  So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me so that they may be led aright -

42:26, Qur'an
[For] He answers [the supplication of] those who have believed and done righteous deeds and increases His bounty [for] them -

2:156 - 157, Qur'an
[Those] who say when disaster strikes them, "Indeed we [belong] to God, and indeed we will return to Him." Those are the ones for whom prayers are [answered] from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided.

14:39, Qur'an
[For remember Abraham, when he said,] "Praise [belongs] to God, who has granted Ishmael and Isaac to me in old age.  Indeed, my Lord is the Hearer of supplication."

21:76, Qur'an
And Noah, when he called [to God] before, so We responded to him and saved him and his family from the great affliction.

21:83 - 84, Qur'an
And Job, when he called to his Lord, "Indeed, adversity has touched me, and You are the most merciful of the merciful." So We responded to him and removed what afflicted him of adversity. And We gave him his family [back] and the like thereof with them as mercy from Us and a reminder for the servants [of God].

26:12 - 13, Qur'an
[And Moses, when] he said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me and that my heart will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron."

20:36, Qur'an
[So God] said, "You have been granted your request, O Moses."

33:43, Qur'an
[For] it is He who [answers] prayers for you, and His angels, so that He may bring you out from darknesses into the light. And He is Merciful to the believers -

3:38 - 39, Qur'an
[For remember when] Zacharias called upon his Lord, saying, "My Lord, grant me a good offspring from Yourself. Indeed, You are the Hearer of supplication." So the angels called him while he was standing in prayer in the chamber, "Indeed, God gives you good news of John, confirming a word from God and [who will be] a noble, abstaining [from women], and a prophet from among the righteous."

21:90, Qur'an
So We responded to [Zacharias], and We gave John to him, and amended his wife for him. Indeed, they used to hasten to good deeds and supplicate Us in hope and fear, and they were humble to Us.

21:87 - 88, Qur'an
And the man of the fish, when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, "There is no god except You; You are Exalted. Indeed, I have been among the wrongdoers." So We responded to him and saved him from the distress. And thus We save the believers.

Ask Forgiveness for your Sin in the Afternoon and the Morning and Before Dawn, Saying, "Lord, Forgive our Sins and have Mercy, for You are the Best of the Merciful"

For Indeed, whoever does Wrong but then Humbles themselves and Prays, and Turns from their Wickedness, will Find God Forgiving and Merciful

3:133, Qur'an
Hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for those who fear [God] -

3:16 - 17, Qur'an
Those who say, "Our Lord, indeed we have believed, so forgive our sins and protect us from the punishment of the Fire," - the patient, the true, the obedient, those who spend [in the way of God], and those who seek forgiveness before dawn.

23:118, Qur'an
And, say, "My Lord, forgive and have mercy, and You are the best of the merciful."

4:106, Qur'an
[So] seek forgiveness from God. Indeed, God is Forgiving and Merciful -

4:110, Qur'an
[For] whoever does a wrong or wrongs himself but then seeks forgiveness from God will find God Forgiving and Merciful.

38:24 - 25, Qur'an
[For remember when] David became certain that We had tried him, and he asked for forgiveness from his Lord and fell down bowing [in prostration] and turned in repentance [to God]. So We forgave him for that; and indeed, there is nearness to Us for him, and a good place of return.

5:74, Qur'an
So will they not repent to God and seek His forgiveness?  And God is Forgiving and Merciful.

40:55, Qur'an
And be patient. Indeed, the promise of God is truth. And ask forgiveness for your sin and exalt [God] with praise of your Lord in the [late] afternoon and the morning.