Asr the Afternoon Prayer

Salat Al Asr (the late Afternoon Prayer) is preformed prior to the setting of the sun, daily.

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Salat Al Asr (Afternoon Prayer); is an eight Rakat unit of prayer, comprising of four Rakat Sunnah (optional but recommended) and four Rakat Fard (obligatory – recited silently) prayer.
The Asr prayer (Arabic: صلاة العصر‎ ṣalāt al-ʿaṣr, “afternoon prayer”) is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayer). As an Islamic day starts at sunset, the Asr prayer is technically the fifth prayer of the day.^{[1][better source needed]} If counted from midnight, it is the third prayer of the day

The period of Asr prayer begins approximately when the sun is halfway down from noon to sunset (various branches of Islam differ on the starting point; some say that it begins when the shadow of an object equals its actual length plus its shadow during noon, others say that the actual length must be doubled), following Dhkur prayer, and ends at sunset, when Maghrib prayer begins.

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