Daily Prayers

Daily prayers comprise a total of 17 rak`ahs and are to be performed at five separate occasions. The morning-prayer consists of two and the evening- prayer of three rak`ahs. The noon-, afternoon-, and night-prayers each are four rak`ahs.

* source: Gorji , Abolghasem "Islam Entry" The Great Islamic Encyclopedia. Ed. Kazem Musavi Bojnourdi.Tehran: The Center of Great Islamic Encyclopaedia , 1989-, V.8 ,pp.408