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References of salat prayer in the Quran and math confirmation

Out of 99 instances, there are references of the salat prayer in 91 instances of sallaa, salat, musallan and musalleen found in 84 verses of 37 surahs in the Quran as shown in the table below, which not only confirm the salat prayer being the greatest way of remembering God but also specify the salat prayer at 5 times a day including the Friday congregation salat prayer to establish it fulfilling the precise requirements, while the commandment of the salat prayer is limited through the phrase, aqeemuu al-salata, is not true, which many of us have claimed:
Note: The table is populated with data obtained from the Quran.corpus.com.

Details of the verses

[2:3] Those who believe in the unseen, and establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuuna al-salata), and spend from what we have provided them.

[2:43] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat and shall bow down with those who bow down.

[2:45] And you shall seek help with the patience and the salat prayer (wa-is’ta`iinuu bi-al-sabri wa-al-salati). And indeed, it is surely difficult except for the humble ones.

[2:83] And when we had taken a covenant from the Children of Israel: “You will not worship except God and with the parents being good and with the relatives and the orphans and the poor, while you shall speak nice to the people and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat.” Then you had turned away, except a few from you, and you were averse.

[2:110] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat. And of whatever good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with God. Indeed, God is Seer of what you do.

[2:125] And when we had made the House a place of return for the mankind and a security; and you  shall take a standing place of Abraham as a place of salat prayer (wa-ittakhidhuu min maqaami ib’raheema musallan). And we had made a covenant with Abraham and Ismail that you shall purify My House for the circumambulators, and the devotees, and the bowers, the prostrators.

[2:153] O you who have believed, you shall seek help through the patience and the salat prayer is’ta`iinuu bi-al-sabri wa-al-salati). Indeed, God is with the patient.

[2:157] Those on them have blessings from their Lord and mercy (ulaaika `alayhim salawaatun min rabbihim wa-rahmatun), and those – they are the guided ones.

[2:177] It has not been the righteousness that you have turned your faces to a direction of the east or the west, but the righteous is whoever has believed in God and the Last Day and the angels and the scripture and the prophets, and has given the wealth out of his love to the near relatives and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and in freeing the slaves, and has established the salat prayer (wa-aqaama al-salata) and has given the zakat; and the pledge keepers of their pledge when they have made it and the patient during the suffering and the hardship and at time of the stress, those are the ones who have made trustworthy and those – they are the righteous.

[2:238] You shall be consistent on the salat prayers (haafizuu `alaa al-salawaati), and the middle salat prayer (wa-al-salati al-wus’taa), and shall stand up for God being obedient.

[2:277] Indeed, those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata), and have given the zakat, for them there is reward of them with their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor will they grieve.

[3:39] Then the angels called him (Zacharia) while he was standing to pray the salat prayer in the prayer house (wa-huwa qaaiman yusallee fee al-mih’raabi), “Indeed, God gives you a good news of John, confirming with a word from God, and an honorable and honest, and a prophet from the righteous.”

[4:43] O you who have believed, you do not go near the salat prayer (laa-taq’rabuu al-salata), while you are in intoxication until you know what you are saying; nor are you impure until you take bath except being on road. And if you have been ill or on a journey, or anyone of you has come from the toilet, or you have touched the women, but you do not find water, then you shall do dry ablution with clean soil that you shall wipe of your faces and your hands. Indeed, God has been Pardoning, Forgiving.

[4:77] Have you not seen to those? It has been said to them, “You shall restrain your hands and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat.” Then when the fighting had been decreed upon them, after a group from them fear the people as they fear God or a greater fear, and they said, “Our Lord, why have You decreed the fighting for us? Why You have not postponed for us to a near term!” Say, “An enjoyment of the world is little, while the Hereafter is far better for whoever has feared (God), and you will not be wronged even like a hair on a date seed.”

[4:101] And when you have travelled in the land, then it has not been any blame upon you that you shorten of the salat prayer (an taq’suruu mina al-salati), if you have feared that those who have disbelieved may harm you. Indeed, the disbelievers have been an open enemy for you.

[4:102] When you (prophet) have been with them, then you have led the salat prayer for them (fa-aqamta la’humu al-salata), then let stand a group from them with you and let them take their arms. Then when they have prostrated, then let them be of their behind; and let come another group, they did not pray the salat prayer (wal-taati taaifatun ukh’raa lam yusalluu), then let them pray salat prayer with you (falyusalluu ma`aka) and let them take their precautions and their arms. Those who have disbelieved have wished if you neglect of your arms and your baggage, then they can assault upon you in a single attack, while there is no blame upon you if it has been a trouble with you from rain or you have been sick that you lay down your arms and you shall take your precautions. Indeed, God has prepared a shameful punishment for the disbelievers.

[4:103] Then when you have completed the salat prayer (fa-idhaa qadaytumu al-salata), then you shall remember God at standing, and sitting, and on your sides. Then when you have been secure, then you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata). Indeed, the salat prayer has been a decree upon the believers at specified times (inna al-salata kaanat `alaa al-mu’mineena kitaaban mawquutan).

[4:142] Indeed, the hypocrites think to deceive God, while He who makes deceivers themselves. And when they have stood up for the salat prayer (wa-idhaa qaamuu ilaa al-salata), they have stood up in reluctance to show off the people, while they do not remember God except a little.

[4:162] But those who are well founded in the knowledge among them and the believers believe in what has been sent down to you (prophet), and what has been sent down from before of you (prophet), and the observers of the salat prayer (wal-muqeemeena al-salata), and the givers of the zakat, and the believers in God and the Last Day – those, we will give them a great reward.

[5:6] O you who have believed, when you have stood up for the salat prayer (idhaa qum’tum ilaa al-salata), then you shall wash your faces and your hands to the elbows, and shall wipe of your heads and your feet to the ankles. And if you have been impure (for sexual contact), then you shall purify. And if you have been ill, or on a journey, or one of you has come from the toilet or has contacted the women, then you do not find water, then you shall do dry ablution from clean soil that you shall wipe of your faces and your hands with it. God does not intend to make any difficulty upon you; but He intends to purify you and to complete His blessing upon you that you may appreciate.

[5:12] And that certainly, God had taken a covenant from Children of Israel, and we have raised twelve patriarchs from them. And God said, “Indeed Me, I am with you, that if you have established the salat prayer (la’in aqamtumu al-salata), and have given the zakat, and have believed in My messengers and have honored them, and have loaned a good loan to God, that I will surely remove your evil deeds from you, and that I will surely admit you into gardens the rivers will flow from underneath of them. But whoever has disbelieved from you after that, then certainly, he has strayed from the right path.”

[5:55] Your only ally is God and His messenger and those who have believed, those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and they are those who bow down.

[5:58] And when you have called to the salat prayer (wa-idhaa nadaytum ilaa al-salati), they have taken it in ridicule and fun. That is of that they are a people who do not understand.

[5:91] The Satan only intends that he may cause the animosity and the hatred between yourselves through the intoxicant and the game of chances, and hinders you from remembering God and from the salat prayer (wa-`ani al-salata). Will you then be the refrainers?

[5:106] O you who have believed, a testimony between yourselves at the time of the will when the death has approached to one of you, are two just men from you or two others from other than you if you had traveled in the land, then there has befallen you a disaster of the death. You will detain both of them after the salat prayer (tah’bisuunahumaa min ba’di al-salati), then they both will swear by God if you have doubted, “We will not exchange of it for a price even if he has been of a near relative, nor will we conceal a testimony of God. Indeed, we then surely would be with the sinners.”

[6:72] And that you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-an aqeemuu al-salata) and shall fear Him. And He is the One to Him you will be gathered.

[6:92] And this is a scripture we have sent down it (Quran) is a blessed one confirming which (Gospel) was before of it, and that you (prophet) may warn a mother of the cities and whoever is around it, and those who believe in the Hereafter, believe in it, and they are consistent with their salat prayers (wa-huwa `alaa salaatihim yuhaafizuuna).

[6:162] Say (prophet), “Indeed, my (Muhammad) salat prayers (inna salaati-i), and my any practice, and my life, and my death are dedicated to God, Lord of the worlds.

[7:170] And those who hold fast to the scripture and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata); indeed, we do not fail to give a reward of the reformers.

[8:3] Those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata) and spend from what we have provided them.

[8:35] And it has not been their salat prayers at the House except whistling and clapping (wa-maa kaana salaatuhum `inda al-bayti illaa mukaa-an wa-tasdiyatan). So, you shall taste the punishment for what you had done to disbelieve.

[9:5] Then when there has passed the sacred months, then you shall kill the idol worshipers wherever you have found them, and shall seize them, and shall surround them, and shall ambush for them at every place of ambush. Then if they have repented and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have given the zakat, then you shall leave their way. Indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful.

[9:11] But if they have repented and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have given the zakat, then they are your brethren in the religion. And we explain the revelations for a people who know.

[9:18] He only maintains God’s masjids whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and has established the salat prayer (wa-aqaama al-salata), and has given the zakat, and he does not fear except God. Then it may have been those that they would be among the guided ones.

[9:54] And what has prevented them that their spending is not accepted from them except that they have disbelieved in God and in His messenger, nor do they come to the salat prayer (wa-laa-yatuuna al-salata) except while they are lazy, nor do they spend except while they are unwilling.

[9:71] And the believing men and the believing women are allies of them to other. They enjoin to the right and forbid from the evil, and they establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and they obey God and His messenger. Those – God will have mercy on them; indeed, God is Almighty, Wise.

[10:87] And we had inspired to Moses and his brother (Aaron) that you shall settle houses in Egypt for your people and shall make your houses as places of worship, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and shall give a good news to the believers.

[11:87] They said, “O Shuaib, does your salat prayer command you that we leave what our forefathers worship (yaashu’aybu a-salatuka tamuruka an natruka maa ya`budu aabaaunaa), or that we do about our wealth what we will? Indeed you, surely you are the forbearing, the right-minded one.”

[11:114] And you shall establish the salat prayer at both ends of the day (the Noon prayer), and first part of the night (Sunset and Night prayer) (wa-aqimi al-salata tarafayi al-nahaari wa-zulafan mina al-layli). Indeed, the good deeds remove the evil deeds. That is a reminder for those who take heed.

[13:22] And those who have been patient seeking a pleasure of their Lord, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have spent from what we have provided them in secret and public, and they repel the evil with the good; those for them is an achievement of the Home.

[14:31] Say to My servants those who have believed to establish the salat prayer (alladheena aamanuu yuqeemuu al-salata) and to spend from what we have provided them in secret and public before, that a day comes there is no trade in it, nor is there any friendship.

[14:37] Our Lord, indeed me (Abraham), I have settled part of my offspring in a valley not suitable for cultivation near Your House, the Sacred House. Our Lord, that they may establish the salat prayer (rabbanaa li-yuqeemuu al-salata). So, make hearts of the people to incline towards them, and provide them with the fruits that they may appreciate.

[14:40] My Lord, make me (Abraham) an establisher of the salat prayer (rabbi ij’`alnii muqeema al-salati), and of my offspring. Our Lord, and accept my prayer.

[17:78] You (the Prophet) shall establish the salat prayer from the post-meridian decline of the sun through the afternoon until the darkness of the night (aqimi al-salata li-duluuki al-shamsi ilaa ghasaqi al-layli) and shall read Quran at the dawn; indeed, reading the Quran at the dawn has been witnessed.

[17:110] Say (the prophet): “Call God or call the Gracious. Whatever you call, then to Him belongs the beautiful names. And do (prophet) not be loud in your salat prayers (wa-laa-tajhar bi-salaatika), nor do you be silent in them, and you shall use a path between that.

[19:31] And He has made me (Jesus) a blessed one wherever I have been and He has enjoined me with the salat prayer (wa-ja`alanii mubaarakan ayna maa kuntu wa-awsaanii bil-salati) and the zakat as long as I have been alive.

[19:55] And he (Ismael) had done to enjoin his people with the salat prayer (wa-kaana yamuru ahaluhu bil-salati) and the zakat, and he had been a pleasing one at his Lord.

[19:59] Then there has succeeded after of them successors, they have abandoned the salat prayer (adaa`uu al-salata) and have followed the lusts that they will meet evil.

[20:14] Indeed Me, I am God; there is no god except I. So, you (Moses) shall worship Me and shall establish the salat prayer for remembering of Me (wa-aqimi al-salata li’dhik’rii).

[20:132] And you (prophet) shall enjoin your family with the salat prayer (wa-amur ah’laka bil-salati)  and shall be steadfast in it. We do not ask you for any provisions as we provide for you, while the good end is for the righteousness.

[21:73] And we had made them (Isaac and Jacob granted as gift to Abraham) leaders, they had guided by our command; and we had inspired to them doing of the good deeds, and establishing of the salat prayer (wa-iqaama al-salati) and giving of the zakat, and they had been worshipers of us.

[22:35] Those who when God has been mentioned has feared their hearts, and the steadfast over whatever has afflicted them, and the establishers of the salat prayer (wal-muqeemee al-salati), and from what we have provided them, they spend.

[22:41] Those who – if we had established them in the earth, they would have established the salat prayer (aqaamuu al-salata) and would have given the zakat, and would have enjoined to the right, and would have forbidden from the evil. And to God is an end of all matters.

[22:78] And you shall strive for God true striving of Him. He has chosen you and has not made any difficulty upon you in the religion (of Monotheism), a practice (Submission) of your father Abraham. He (God) has named you the Submitters before and in this (Quran) that the messenger would be a witness over you, and you would be witnesses over the people. So, you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat, and shall hold fast to God. He is your Protector that He has been the excellent Protector and has been the excellent Supporter.

[23:2] Those who – they are humbles in their salat prayers (alladheena hum fee salaatihim khaashi`uuna).

[23:9] And those who  – they guard over their salat prayers (alladheena hum `alaa salawaatihim yuhaafizuuna).

[24:37] There are men whom neither business, nor trade distracts them from remembering of God, and establishing of the salat prayer (wa-iqaami al-salati), and giving of the zakat. They fear a day therein the hearts and the eyes will turn around.

[24:41] Do you not see that whoever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies God, and the birds with outspreading wings? Each one certainly knows its salat prayers (kullun qad `alima salaatuhu) and its glorification. And God is Knower of what they do.

[24:56] And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakah, and shall obey the messenger so that you are given mercy.

[24:58] O you who have believed; let those who have been rightfully yours (attendants) ask you permission, and those who do not reach the puberty at three times – before the Dawn salat prayer (min qabli salati al-fajri), and when you put aside your garments during the noon time (for rest), and after the Night salat prayer (wa-min ba`di salati al-`ishaai), are three private times for you. There has not been upon you, nor upon them any blame after of them mingling among you – each of you is with the other. Thus that God makes clear the revelations for you, and God is Knower, Wise.

[27:3] Those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and they are about the Hereafter they ascertain.

[29:45] You (prophet) shall recite what has been revealed to you of the scripture, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqimi al-salata); indeed, the salat prayer prevents from the immorality and the evil deed (inna al-salata tanhaa `ani al-fahshaai wal-munkari), and that remembering of God is greatest. And God knows what you (people) do.

[30:31] Being turned to Him, while you shall fear Him and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata), and do not be with the idol worshipers.

[31:4] Those who establish the salat prayer (alladheena yuqeemuuna al-salata) and give the zakat, and they ascertain about the Hereafter.

[31:17] “O my son, you shall establish the salat prayer (aqimi al-salata), and shall enjoin to the right and shall forbid from the evil, and shall be steadfast over what has befallen you. That are the matters of determination.

[33:33] And you (wives of the prophet) shall stay in your homes and do not display as displaying of the old days of the ignorance. And you shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqim’na al-salata) and shall give the zakat, and shall obey God and His messenger. God only wishes to remove the impurity from you, a people of the Shrine as well as to purify you a perfect purification.

[35:18] A bearer of burden will not bear a burden of another. And if an overloaded calls to its load, it will not be carried anything from it, even if he has been a near kin. You can only warn of those who fear their Lord in the unseen, and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata). And whoever has purified, then he only purifies for himself. And to God is the final return.

[35:29] Indeed, those who recite a scripture of God and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and have spent from what we have provided them in secret and public may hope for a commerce will never lose.

[42:38] And those who have responded to their Lord and have established the salat prayer (wa-aqaamuu al-salata) and their matter is in  consultation between themselves, and they spend from what we have provided them.

[58:13] And have you been afraid to offer charities before your consultation? Then when you do not do, while God has been kind upon you. So, you shall establish the salat prayer (fa-aqeemuu al-salata)  and shall give the zakat, and shall obey God and His messenger. And God is Cognizant of what you do.

[62:9] O you who have believed, when a call has been made for the salat prayer on a day of the Friday (idhaa nuudiya lil’salati min yawmi al-jumu`ati), you shall hasten to remembrance of God, and shall leave the business. That is better for you, if you had done to know.

[62:10] Then when the salat prayer has been completed (fa-idhaa qudiyati al-salatu), then you shall spread in the land, and shall seek from God’s bounty, and shall remember God much, that you may succeed.

[70:22] Except the establishers of salat prayer (illaa al-musalleena).

[70:23] Those who – they are consistent at their salat prayers (alladheena hum `alaa salaatihim daaimuuna).

[70:34] And those who – they guard their salat prayers (wa-alladheena hum `alaa salaatihim yuhaafizuuna) .

[73:20] Your (prophet) Lord knows that you may awake less than two thirds of the night, and a half of it, and one third of it, as well as a group of those who are with yourself (prophet). And God has designed the night and the day. He has known that you cannot keep it up, so He has turned to you that you shall read what has been easy from the Quran. He has known that there will be sick among you, and others – they may travel in the land seeking bounty from God, and others – they may fight in a path of God. So, you shall read what has been easy from it, and shall establish the salat prayer (wa-aqeemuu al-salata) and shall give the zakat and shall loan God a good loan. And whatever of good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with God, it will be better and greater reward. And you shall seek God’s forgiveness; indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful.

[74:43] They (deniers of a reminder of the Quran’s mathematical coding) have said, “We were not among the salat establishers (lam naku mina al-musalleena).”

[75:31] [A disbeliever at the moment of death knows] That he has not accepted truth, nor has he prayed the salat prayer (fa-laa-saddaqa wa-laa-sallaa).

[87:15] And he has remembered his Lord’s name, while he has prayed the salat prayer (wa-dhakara is’ma rabbihi fa-sallaa).

[96:10] A servant (of God) when he has prayed the salat prayer (`ab’dan idhaa sallaa)?

[98:5] And they (Jews and Christians) had not been commanded except that they would worship God being sincere to Him in the religion of Monotheists, and they would establish the salat prayer (wa-yuqeemuu al-salata), and they would give the zakat. And that is the established religion.

[107:4] So, woe to the salat establishers (fa-waylun lil’musalleena).

[107:5] Those who – they are heedless from their salat prayers (alladheena hum salaatihim saahuuna).

[108:2] So, you (prophet) shall pray the salat prayer for your Lord (fa-salli li’rabbika), and you shall dedicate (yourself).

Mathematical confirmation

The references of salat prayer including blessing found in 91 instances of sallaa (6), salat (81), musallan (1) and musalleen (3) in 84 verses of 37 surahs in the Quran, and if the relevant surah and verse numbers are added, the sum is a multiple of 19 => 6365 (19X335) as shown in the table below:

Note: yellow highlighted cell indicates salat itself a blessing and orange cells are repeated instances.

God has decreed the salat prayer on the believers being the greatest way to remember Him that they can prevent themselves from the evil deed and behavior through the salat prayer acknowledging a fact based confirmation from Quran. They shall establish the salat prayer being steadfast knowing its specified times, seeking only pleasure of their Lord holding fast to God and His scripture to be admitted into His mercy as well as to be rewarded by Him when they will be gathered to Him being aware that a bearer of burden will not bear a burden of another, even not a near kin on a day of the Judgment.

Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless. Tafazzal (06/19/2026).