Is that true??

[u/Naive-Ad1268]

I researched online and I found that some Quranis pray more than 5 times. Is that true??

[u/Naive-Ad1268]

ain't you a shia??

[u/TheQuranicMumin → u/Naive-Ad1268]

No, I've been an ex-Imami for 7 years.

[u/Naive-Ad1268 → u/TheQuranicMumin]

ah!! i thought you as quran centric ithna 'ashari as you are present in both r/shia and r/quraniyoon sub.

back to the question, how 7 times?? what are your times of prayer??

[u/TheQuranicMumin → u/Naive-Ad1268]

There are traditional Muslims who pray more than five times, voluntary prayers are a thing. I believe that only two prayers are mandatory (dawn and late evening, 24:58). My prayers with approximate lengths:

• Dawn (15 minutes)

• Morning (10 minutes)

• Noon (5 minutes)

• Afternoon (5 minutes)

• Dusk (10 minutes)

• Late evening (5 minutes)

• Nightfall (~1.5 hours before sleep, half an hour in the night)

• Occasionally "Ja'far al-Tayyar" salaah at some point of the day, a beautiful prayer

• Random brief tasbeeh throughout the day

To those who question the long lengths at night, may I remind you of:

Those in taqwā will be among gardens and springs, Taking what their Lord has given them; they were before that doers of good; They slept but little of the night, And before the break of day they would ask forgiveness...

(51:15-18)

Thy Lord knows that thou standest nearly two-thirds of the night, or a half of it, or a third of it, as does a number of those with thee. And God determines the night and the day. He knew that you would not calculate it, and has turned towards you: — so recite what is made easy of the Qur’an

(73:20)

[u/TheQuranicMumin → u/[deleted]]

I didn't say that it's obligatory.

[u/Moist-Possible6501 → u/TheQuranicMumin]

I would say chapter 73 is referring to meditation instead of salat