The prayers follow a specific procedure, a series of movements. First, you stand with your hands on your chest (right hand over your left hand), and you recite a specific surah in this position. Then you put your hands on your knees and repeat another specific surah three times, then straighten up again, then go facedown on the floor, mumble the prescribed words three times, then rock back on your knees saying the words explicit for this position, then facedown on the floor again, and back up on your knees again. One of these cycles is called a rak’a. The length of the prayers differed from
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