After which I sat pondering my case, and continued so doing till the time of afternoon prayer, when lo!
It was time for afternoon prayers, and they were one man shy of the necessary 10.
Just before the afternoon prayer, a lean man in a black turtleneck rose to give the call.
The afternoon prayer was broadcast from speakers hooked up to a police vehicle.
After the afternoon prayers I shall be at the camel market.
A bit down the dusty road, a boy knelt for his afternoon prayers in a poppy field.
After the daily afternoon prayer there would be a short reading from the books of Hadiths.
Every Friday, a major sermon is delivered before the afternoon prayer.
The imam had just finished the afternoon prayer and was leaving the mosque.
They hanged him from the branch of an oak tree with still two hours to go before afternoon prayer.