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Hi all,
I am a Muslim student interested in EM and I had a question about taking breaks to pray. As a Muslim I pray 5X a day which takes about ~5 minutes each time. In a hospital it's normally as simple as just running to the hospital chapel, nearest empty room, etc. and then coming back after 5 mins. Although the prayers shift around as the day light hours change, a typical prayer schedule would look like this: Pray anytime between 5:30am-6:45am, 11:30am-2:00pm, 2:10pm - 4:10pm, 4:30pm-5:30pm, 5:45pm-12am. As you can see the prayer time windows are pretty wide except for the prayer that occurs after sunset (second to last) since that's normally prayed within a 1 hour window of time. I realize that at times I will be so busy that it may not be possible, but how often would you say I should expect to be able to pray on time? Could I get a 5 min break within these time frames 80-90% of the time?
Also I realize how things may become more complicated in the future as we no longer have a Muslim president. I'd rather not take that into consideration.
Edit: The Muslim president thing was a joke. Sorry to confuze.
I am a Muslim student interested in EM and I had a question about taking breaks to pray. As a Muslim I pray 5X a day which takes about ~5 minutes each time. In a hospital it's normally as simple as just running to the hospital chapel, nearest empty room, etc. and then coming back after 5 mins. Although the prayers shift around as the day light hours change, a typical prayer schedule would look like this: Pray anytime between 5:30am-6:45am, 11:30am-2:00pm, 2:10pm - 4:10pm, 4:30pm-5:30pm, 5:45pm-12am. As you can see the prayer time windows are pretty wide except for the prayer that occurs after sunset (second to last) since that's normally prayed within a 1 hour window of time. I realize that at times I will be so busy that it may not be possible, but how often would you say I should expect to be able to pray on time? Could I get a 5 min break within these time frames 80-90% of the time?
Also I realize how things may become more complicated in the future as we no longer have a Muslim president. I'd rather not take that into consideration.
Edit: The Muslim president thing was a joke. Sorry to confuze.
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