Heliya

Rather than doing my own individual research, I decided to speak to my friend Heliya about the Muslim religion as she had much knowledge and experience about the practice. I dragged my roommate Heliya along my journey to Irvine to the Islamic Center of Irvine, who is a practicing Persian Muslim today. Coming from a Persian-Armenian background I naturally relate to her culture and have similar ideas and values that I have grown up with. However, as a Christian-Armenian, the religion we each practice are quite the contrary. I asked her to join me with the purposes of providing me with background knowledge about the mosque in which she routinely attends when she goes back home to Irvine. On Friday the 17th, I attended a service called the Jum’ah. The Jum’ah is …show more content…
Muslims believe that while Allah speaks to practicing Muslims through the Quran, salaah is the method in which Muslims use to respond to Allah. During the prayer, while standing, the congregates would raise their hands up to their shoulders and would say “Allah Akbar” which translated to, “Allah is the greatest.” Following this motion, the congregates would bend down and repeat, “Allah Akbar” with their back and neck straight and leveled with the ground in a 90 degree angle. While in this position, the congregates would praise Allah in Arabic, repeating this saying three times. After standing up from this position, the people would bring their arms back beside their hips and recite another Arabic saying once, praising Allah once more. The congregates would then move to the following position called the sajdah, in which they would place their head, knees, and hands on the floor, again reciting Allah Akbar. Rising from sajdah, they would transition to a different position in which congregates would place their left foot on the floor and would place the right toes on the floor only with their hands on their knees. While in this