people of their duty to pray. The five times of prayer and the approximate times they occur here in Chad are:

– Fajur or Subuh (pre-dawn, 4 AM)
– Duhur (midday, 1 PM)
– Usur (afternoon, 3 PM)
– Maghrib (sunset, 6 PM)
– Ishe (evening, 7 PM)

The prayer times are so engrained into the fabric of life here that the words are often used as time markers throughout the day. Since school has started in the morning, we have said to the kids that they can come for stories at our house “ba’ad usur” (after the 3:00 PM call to prayer).

It’s strange how this happens, but it even gets incorporated into our lives. I usually wake up around “fajur” when I hear the call to prayer in the morning. If we go out for a meal at night, we try to get there before “maghrib” so we can start eating our meal right away. When the kids have quiet time or a nap in the middle of the day, we tell acquire Zoloft online Athanasius and Hadassah that they need to stay in their bed until the call to prayer (usur, 3 PM).

Leave it buy Deltasone online to those two to turn this into something comical. One day, they wanted to get out of their beds earlier than waiting for the call to prayer at 3 PM. We neared their door to overhear this conversation taking place at about 2 PM:

HADASSAH: Mom said we have to wait for the call to prayer, Athanasius.
ATHANASIUS: Yeah, but maybe you can do the call to prayer, Hadassah.
HADASSAH: Okay.
…She clears her throat and then in a projecting voice bellows:
HADASSAH: “CALL TO PRAYER!!!”

Athanasius cut her off and then started instructing her what order Prozac the man actually says. We couldn’t help but laughing at the two of them, always bringing smiles to our faces: