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If seTcral Mahometans say their prayers together, 
one of them puts himself at their head, fulfils ^he func- 
tions of an Imaum, and directs the prayers; so that the 
motions of the rikats may be executed ^t once by all 
the individuals of the assembly. If the faithful be nu- 
merous, they place themselves in several rows behind 
the Imaum, the same as at the mosque. 
There are also some additional prayers which the 
Mahometans repeat every day; as the El-Feger, which 
should precede the Sebah in the morning; the Eschefaa 
and the Uter, which ought to follow the Ascha in the 
evening. Besides these, a Mussulman may say as ma- 
ny prayers as he likes, either in the day or in the night, 
except that from sun-rise to noon, and from the mo- 
ment of the Aassar to the Mogareb, he is not allowed 
to pray. These prayers are meritorious to the believer; 
but they do not dispense with his obligation of saying 
the five canonical prayers. 
Amongst their daily devotions the Feger is compo- 
sed of two rikats; the Sebah of two others; the Douhour 
of four; the Aassar also of four; the Mogareb of three; 
the Ascha of four; the Eschefaa and the Uter of three. 
The Fat-ha and the chapter or verses of the Koran 
which follow it in the first two rikats are recited aloud 
in the Sebah, the Mogareb, the Ascha, the Eschefaa, 
and the Uter; but in the Douhour, Aassar, and in the 
additional voluntary prayers, every thing is uttered in a 
low voice. As to the invocations, Allahou akibar! Se- 
meo Allahu, &c. and the salutation, Assalamou Aalei- 
kom, they are always pronounced with a loud voice. 
There are some other particular prayers for the dead, 
for the sick, in travelling, in want of rain, in eclipses 
of the sun and moon, in battles, in the thirty nights of 
Ramadan, for Easter, and for ElKaaba; and also some 
prayers of satisfaction and supererogation. 
