What is "salah"

n. (alternative form of salat English)

n. the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca [syn: salat, salaat, salaah]

Salah "Entertainer" Benlemqawanssa (born June 28, 1979), also known as Spider Salah, is an award-winning competitive hip-hop dancer from France who won the inaugural season of La France a un incroyable talent (France has Incredible Talent) and the fourth season of Arabs Got Talent. He calls his personal dance style P.A.B.E. which stands for Popping, Animation, Boogaloo, and Effects. Although Salah is best known for popping, he is also skilled in b-boying.

Salah (שלח, Shelach, ISO 259-3 Šelḥ ) is an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in . He is thus one of the table's “seventy names.” He is called Shelah in and Sala in the Septuagint and .

In the ancestral line from Noah to Abraham, he is the son of Arpachshad (in the Masoretic Text) or Cainan (in the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch) and the father of ‘ Eber. The name ‘Eber for his son is the original eponym of the Hebrew people, from the root ‘abar , “to cross over.”

The Gospel of Luke and Book of Jubilees both agree with the Septuagint in making Salah the son of Cainan, adding the information that his mother was Milcah (the daughter of Madai), while his wife is named as Mu'ak, daughter of Kesed (another son of Arphachsad).

Salah's age at death is given as 433 (Masoretic), 460 (Septuagint), and 460 (Samaritan).

Henry M. Morris states that Arpachshad, Salah, and ‘Eber are listed as the most important sons since they were in the line of the promised Seed of the Woman.

Salah, also spelled salat, is the practice of formal worship and prayer in Islam.

Salah may also refer to:

• Salah (name), a common given Arab name and family name
• Salah (Biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10
• Salah (dancer) (born 1979), French hip-hop dancer
• Salah, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Indonesian word that means wrong

Salah ( Arabic: صلاح, Ṣalāḥ, ) is an Arabic given name and family name.

Salah ("Muslim prayer", صلاة or : ; pl. ), called in some languages by the Persian-derived term namāz is one of the Five Pillars in the faith of Islam and an obligatory religious duty for every Muslim. It is a physical, mental, and spiritual act of worship that is observed five times every day at prescribed times. In this ritual, the worshiper starts standing, bows, prostrates, and concludes while sitting on the ground. During each posture, the worshiper recites or reads certain verses, phrases and prayers. The word salah is commonly translated to prayer but this definition might be confusing. Muslims use the words "Dua" or "Supplication" when referring to the common definition of prayers which is "reverent petitions made to God."

Salat is preceded by ritual ablution. Salat consists of the repetition of a unit called a rakʿah (pl. rakaʿāt) consisting of prescribed actions and words. The number of obligatory ( fard) rakaʿāt varies from two to four according to the time of day or other circumstances (such as Friday congregational worship, which has two rakats). Prayer is obligatory for all Muslims except those who are prepubescent, are menstruating, or are experiencing bleeding in the 40 days after childbirth. Every movement in the salat is accompanied by the takbir except the standing between the ruku and sujud, and the ending which has a derivation of the Muslim greeting As-salamu alaykum.