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Khaled Abdel-Fattah
Khaled Abdel-Fattah

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How to Never Miss Salah at Work: The Free Prayer Times Bot for Slack

Missing Dhuhr because a meeting ran long? Prayer Times Bot for Slack fixes that, automated prayer reminders, sent right into your workspace.

What It Does

A free Slack app that sends location-based prayer time notifications for Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha, no separate app to check.

  • 100+ cities worldwide, powered by the Aladhan prayer times API
  • Pick your prayers, notify for all five, or just the ones you want
  • Pick your channel, DM, a shared channel, wherever works
  • Correct timezones, automatically, for distributed teams
  • Multi-workspace install via OAuth

What's New

  • Hadith reminders: each prayer notification can now include a Hadith, adding a moment of reflection to the ping
  • Arabic language support" notifications in English or Arabic
  • More cities: recently expanded coverage, including Nepal (6 cities)

Setup: Under a Minute

  1. Add the bot to your Slack workspace Installation Link
  2. Type /prayer in any channel
  3. Enter your country and city
  4. Choose your prayers, channel, and language — save

That's it. Notifications run automatically after that.

Why It's Worth Installing

Muslim professionals usually patch this together with phone alarms or sticky notes. A Slack-native reminder removes that friction for free, and signals that religious practice has a place in the workday, not just around it.

Try It

Add Prayer Times Bot to Slack →

contributions and feedback welcome.

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