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Rukūʿ (Arabic: رُكوع, [rʊˈkuːʕ]) is the act of belt-low bowing in standardized prayers, where the backbone should be at rest. [1]Muslims in rukūʿ. In prayer, it refers to the bowing at the waist from standing on the completion of recitation of a portion of the Qur'an in Islamic formal prayers ().
The Second Fitna was a period of general political and military disorder and civil war in the Islamic community during the early Umayyad Caliphate. [note 1] It followed the death of the first Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I in 680, and lasted for about twelve years.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen Kagan, the "Chofetz Chaim", at prayer towards the end of his life. Additional references in the Hebrew Bible have been interpreted to suggest that King David and the prophet Daniel prayed three times a day.