Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called for prayers for rain, “Salaat Al Istisqaa”, to be performed on Thursday morning across all the country’s mosques and musallahs.

Shaikh Khalifa called on Muslims living in the country to pray to God to bless the land with rain, in accordance with Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) Sunnah to seek rain from Allah.