Prayer: The Basis of Islam

You will be judged on your prayers on judgment day. Allah will look at your fard (required prayers) and then for any mistakes you make, he will look at your voluntary prayers. We all make mistakes and the shaitan does whisper to confuse and mislead us, but if we believe in Allah and ask for help, he will indeed guide us.

SHUKR has gone to great length to provide you with high quality, comfortable and extremely beautiful prayer clothes. Imagine that you are bowing down before Allah and in these moments you are praising him and asking him for what you want.  Our prayers symbolize our faith by putting all our wants to Allah and no one else.  We are told to come to salat (prayers) in clean and good clothing.

When men go to Friday Prayers, they are told to put on perfume or cologne and wear their best clothes.  Women should do the same thing and SHUKR has made that possible.  When you feel beautiful, your heart is full of noor (light).  As you bow down and the gowns are flowing around you, you will concentrate on Allah and thank him daily for his blessings.


You have a few different designs to choose from also.  We have the traditional two piece outfits with the top and the skirt and we have the one piece flowing gown type.  These one piece prayer outfits were originally seen in Saudi Arabia years ago.  Many were made of cotton with prints.  SHUKR has changed the entire look of prayer outfits and you will feel like a princess in one of our gowns.


Let's look at the requirements for prayer.

1. Fajr - Early morning prayer - 2 rakats (units).
2. Dohr - Noon time prayer - 4 rakats, except on Friday which is 2 rakats for men.
3. Asr - Afternoon prayer - 4 rakats.
4. Magrid - Prayer at sunset - 3 rakats.
5. Isha - Evening prayer - 4 rakats.

Allah comes to the lowest part of heaven in the early morning before fajr salat and it is blessed to do these late night prayers.  It is a time when Allah will grant your dua (supplication).

The Prophet Muhammad once said: "Allah does not accept the Prayers of an individual until his heart achieves in it what his body has achieved." [Al- Ghazali in Ihya-Uloom ad-Deen]

Islam teaches Muslims to love Allah (Arabic word for God) and Prophet Mohammad more than their own life and more than their family. Deen (faith) can not be taught, but it can be gifted to the Muslim by Allah as a blessed gift or event. When the heart is happy,

It was narrated that Anas said: The Prophet said: “No one of you truly believes until I am dearer to him than his father, his son, his own self and all the people." Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 15; Muslim, 44.