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prayer rug
Wiktionary
n. A prayer mat
WordNet
n. a small rug used by Muslims during their devotions [syn: prayer mat]
Wikipedia
A prayer rug or prayer mat ( pl. , or musallah; or ; , , ) is a piece of fabric, sometimes a pile carpet, used by Muslims, placed between the ground and the worshipper for cleanliness during the various positions of Islamic prayer. These involve prostration and sitting on the ground. A Muslim must perform wudu (ablution) before prayer, and must pray in a clean place. Many new prayer mats are manufactured by weavers in a factory. The design of a prayer mat is based on the village it came from and its weaver.
When praying, a niche, representing the mihrab of a mosque, at the top of the mat must be pointed to the Islamic center for prayer, Mecca. All Muslims are required to know the qibla or direction towards Mecca from their home or where they are while travelling.
Usage examples of "prayer rug".
Tewfik waited an instant as his attendants spread a prayer rug before he bent his head towards the distant holy city of Sinnar, where the first ships to reach Bellevue had carried a fragment of the Kaaba from burning Mecca.
He gestured to a prayer rug whose elegant geometric designs were outlined in pearls.
Most often I unrolled my prayer rug in a corner of the yard behind the house.
If you want to march into his room and pull the prayer rug from under his feet and discuss the question of Christian baptism with him, please go ahead.
But before he did, he spread out his prayer rug in the shadow of the truck and prostrated himself in prayer.
In his mind, he prostrated himself on his prayer rug and faced Mecca.
She had stumbled back out into the hall, where she'd fallen over an Oriental prayer rug I remembered from the scene photographs.
He rolled out his prayer rug and sat down, composing himself for his own private moment with the Morninglord.
The other, still prostrating himself, had bounced his forehead too hard off the floor and was floating an inch above his prayer rug.
He dressed quickly and rolled out his prayer rug for morning prayers.
His prayer rug was an oddity, an ancient Persian weave that showed the mosques and towers of a city on one half of the design.
On a fresh blank he drew the interior of the shed as best as he could remember it: door, table, stacks of VCRs and computers, racks of clothes, copier, dominoes, telltale Grozny newspaper on the table, prayer rug on the floor.