Morocco’s King Orders Nationwide Prayer for Rain Amid Drought Concerns

These supplicatory prayers (salat al-istisqa) will be performed, Tuesday at 10 a.m. not only in the large mosques, but also in the prayer areas throughout the country. "Following the tradition of his venerated ancestor the Prophet Sidna Mohammed, King Mohammed VI has decided that supplicatory prayers be performed in order to implore the Almighty to spread his beneficent rains on the earth as a sign of mercy for his creatures in accordance with the verse of the Holy Quran: And it is He who sends down the rain after they had despaired and spreads His mercy."