Prayer rug

The prayer rug (in Arabic, سجادة saǧǧāda (plural سجاجيد saǧāǧīd ) in Persian: جانماز ğānamāz ) is according to Islamic law ( fiqh ) a pure substance or carpet, with a Muslim covers the ground, and so prevent his prayers (Salat) by impurities on the ground ( such as urine or blood) is invalid. To this should be " a place clean soil" be present. Outdoors he usually needs no prayer rug, because the earth is considered as a cleaning in Islam. It is even considered inappropriate, out to use a prayer mat to protect yourself from the dust, as the touch of dusty soil is considered a sign of submission. There are smaller prayer rugs that you can carry with you ( Namase ) and larger for home use, so-called Sedschade, also the series Prayer Rug Saph.

History

At the time of the Prophet Mohammed mats were used as a prayer rug. In the centuries thereafter decorated kilims or rugs have been used more and more by the rules of art. In the mosques sometimes prayer rugs with the words " Is the Foundation ( Waqf )" ( الأوقاف ) are used so that no one can steal unseen and use these rugs.

The characterizing element of the prayer carpet is designed as a niche inside field that corresponds to the mihrab in the mosque that indicates the direction of prayer to Mecca, without compliance with the prayer is invalid.

The water jug ​​as symbols of ritual purity for the ritual prayer or a mosque lamp are often displayed on the prayer rug. This relevant verses from the Koran ( Sura 24, verse 35,36 ) are brought into consciousness: "God is the light of heaven and earth His light may be compared with a niche with a lamp in it ... They are available in stores, in terms. has granted permission which God, that they built and that his name is mentioned in it ... " (ie mosques ).

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman Factories of Cairo and Bursa provided the finest prayer rugs, which were valued as status symbols. Their motives were later taken up by the prayer rugs from Ghiordes, one located between Izmir and Uschak village that produced the most comprehensive group of Anatolian prayer rugs.

If the prayer rug contaminated, it must comply with the ritual rules are washed up on the impurity is nothing left, but usually three times. He is then, if it does not harm the carpet, wrung out. The rule is that the substance - as with other objects - not to suffer damage. So can not be wrung out a cloth, so this cleaning step is omitted.

In the Sufi tradition the prayer rug is one of the symbols of the transmission of spiritual authority. The one who has inherited a particular religious tradition and continues or a Sufi monastery passes is called the " as- saddschāda Schaich " (Arabic شيخ السجادة, DMG Shaykh as- saǧǧāda, master of prayer carpet ') or saddschāda - nischīn (Persian سجادهنشين, DMG saǧǧāda - nisin, owner of the prayer carpet ') respectively.