Salah Tracker

The five prayers

Salah, the ritual prayer, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and it is prayed five times a day. Each prayer has its own window, set by the sun.

• Fajr, from dawn until sunrise.
• Dhuhr, after the sun passes its highest point.
• Asr, in the afternoon. The schools differ on when it starts: most once a shadow has grown as long as the thing casting it, the Hanafi school once it is twice as long.
• Maghrib, just after sunset.
• Isha, at night, once the twilight has gone.

Why the times move

Because the windows follow the sun, they shift through the year and from one place to another. That is why this module leaves the times off: your mosque, a prayer-time calendar for your city, or an app will give you the day's times.

Shia Muslims pray all five too, but often join Dhuhr with Asr and Maghrib with Isha, so they pray in three sittings a day. The module has a box for each of the five either way.

How the module works

Seven rows for the days of the week and five columns for the prayers, on the weekly spread. Fill in a box, tick it, or mark it however you like as each prayer is prayed.

Some people mark a prayer prayed in congregation differently from one prayed alone, or keep a small mark for a prayer made up later. A week on one page shows the pattern: which prayers come easily and which slip. It is a record for you, not a score.