Members of the local Muslim community bowed, knelt and swayed their bodies toward the northeast corner of the room – in line with Mecca – praying to God for “ghaith,” the Arabic word for “perfect rain.”
As an unseasonably warm light flooded into the John Wooden Center’s Pyramid Room Friday, about 60 members of the Muslim community prayed to put an end to the drought affecting Southern California. Read more...
Photo: At their Friday service, members of the Muslim Students Association and the larger Muslim community in Westwood prayed for rain to end the drought currently affecting Southern California.