Prayer in Islam
Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day at specific times while facing the direction of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Muslim prayer is formal and ritualistic yet many Muslims do make every effort to be sincere and upright in performing their prayers. Muslim prayer is characterised by rules of respect and attitudes of politeness toward Allah. (Please note that all Arab speakers use this word for God – whether Christian or Muslim, though their ideas of God are significantly different.)
“Praying correctly and at the appropriate time is one of the greatest indications of (Muslim) faith and a great sign of true religion”. Prayer is to be done with heart and body cleanliness, with cleanness of clothing and in a ceremonially clean place. The washing of the hands, nose, face, forearms, ears, and feet in preparation for Muslim prayer is important.
The words
Muslims place very strong emphasis on the exact postures and the words of their prayers (which are always in Arabic). Almost all Muslim prayer is concerned with reciting specific phrases from memory. In the course of the five regular prayer times a Muslim will prostrate himself before Allah a total of 34 times and he will repeat the following phrases:
“Allah is greater”
“Praised be my mighty Lord”
“Allah hears the one who praises him”
He will also recite the “Al-Fatiha” or another text from the Qur’an 17 times, the “Shadada” (Islamic creed), and the greeting of peace to all Muslims.
Answered Prayer
Muslims can make requests to God privately after they finish their ritual prayers. However, this is not done as often as Christians typically make requests. Muslims do not believe that God binds himself to his people through covenants. This is a key concept for understanding their attitudes toward answers to prayer and their lack assurance of God’s steadfast love towards them. In addition, because of the fatalism of Islam, Muslims generally have little faith that their requests will alter their circumstances. They generally believe that Allah’s desires (for good or ill) will always be done despite their activities or requests. Trusting in God for specific responses to prayer in the Christian sense is not practised among Muslims. This is a huge difference between Muslim and Christian religious experience.
When Christians speak of prayer they mean direct two-way communication with God. Muslims never expect God to speak back to them directly at any moment and certainly not during prayer. The vast majority of Muslims will say that God only speaks through the Qur’an. Even Mohammed is said only to have heard from God indirectly through an angel. Christian prayer, on the other hand, is a combination of requests, thanksgiving and praise. The Bible says that we should “nter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name” (Ps 100:4).
Let us Pray…
* Muslims need to come to know the Christ of Christian prayer. Pray that Muslims would come to believe that God Himself wants to communicate directly with them. Pray this specifically for any Muslims that you may know personally. Pray for the Muslims in your city, region and nation.
* Pray for newly-converted Muslims, that they may develop real confidence in God as one who keeps His covenants, makes promises and who hears and answers prayer.
* Christians need to share their prayer experience with Muslims in humility. Pray that God will give us wisdom when describing our Christian prayer experience so that God would be glorified and Muslims could understand Him better.
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Assalam Alaikum,
Allow me to hambly and precisely tell you the following:
1) Muslims strongly believe in their prayers to be answered and the daily Salat or prayer is regarded, as it is, a direct communication between Man and his creator, particulary at the event of prostration. As God says: “Prostrate and become closer to me” Amuslim also communicates with his Lord, when reciting the holy book.
Muslims do belive that their parayers are answered in any of three ways:
a) Immediate response by getting what you asked for;
b) Giving you better than what yoy requested for or diverting a calamity that you would have faced
c) Delaying what you requested for while testing your patience.
About dreams and reveletions, muslims get them but bad dreams like those odeining people to embrace cristianity do not dictate them to do so, because the only religion recognized by God is Islam. Those are tests that God may Give to people to test whether they believe in HIM. He can make your child sick to see whether you will belive that he is the one who cures. All paryers for your child be be cured should be directed to God but not Jesus, because Jesus is also a servant of God who was very pious
You need to explain you people why God should chose to have a child 2008 years ago when he was alone during the creation of heavens and the earth and all what they contain,
Tell them also about the distortions put in the bible after discovering that Muhammad peace be upon him had not come from the jews, but Arabs.
Hoping for your response, and to see you clad in muslim faith.
Jesus is indeed God’s son, but probably not in the sense that you would be guessing that He is God’s son. It is clear from the Holy Bible that Jesus and God are the same. In Jude 5, the truth is made clear, Jesus was there and He was God when the people of Israel were saved out of the land of Egypt. This means that Jesus is, was and always will be God. As another example from the Bible, in John 8:58, Jesus clarifies, saying, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” This angered the people and made them desire to kill Him again, but God (the God who is one with Jesus) did not allow that to happen until later, at the appointed time.
Along with that, in John 10:30, when Jesus said “I and the Father are one,” He did not mean that He is a prophet. If someone can read John 10, the actual words of Jesus, and still think that He is a prophet, then the heart of that person is so hard that the words are not even being read!
Also, if a person reads those words and thinks that the Bible does not tell the truth, then let me first ask why so many historical eyewitnesses (as found in the first part of the New Testament) can say the same thing about what Jesus said in those times. Or, if you can read that passage and think, “Jesus must have lied,” then I have another question for you, why would Jesus be so great a prophet if He lied all the time? I mean, Jesus said in John 14:6, “No one goes to the Father, but by me.” Does it not make sense that if Jesus lied all the time, His friends and the people around Him writing these things that all said the same thing (even the historic documents that we have found that are not included in the Bible) would still listen to Jesus and follow Him if He were always constantly deceiving them? No, all of His twelve disciples would have deserted Him if He were a liar. Instead, they stuck with Him their whole lives, with the exception of Judas, who actually killed himself later because he knew that betraying Jesus to the soldiers had been so wrong (this is found in Matthew 27:3-10 and Acts 1:18-19. It is good to note that there are indeed two different accounts of how Judas killed himself, but it is safe to say that the evidence shows that he hung himself and either that did not work so he made himself fall to the ground, or he hung himself and by the time the other disciples found his body it had rotted, the head fell off and the body lay burst open on the rocks below).
Anyway, after setting up the fact that Jesus did indeed say, “I and the Father are one,” it is important to go back to the question of why God would choose to have a CHILD. The answer to this is simply amazing to me and is explained, to a certain degree, in Philippians so, that is where I will start.
Again, Philippians 2:5-11, and I will write it for you here so you can read it for yourself instead of just explaining it for you, but I will also explain it in the text that follows these verses:
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the very nature, God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
You see, Jesus was God, but God humbled a part of HIMSELF so that He could die the death of a sinner. The Bible says in Romans 6:23, “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is true! We deserve an eternal death that separates us from God- who cannot be in the presence of sin because He is so holy! Now, read this portion from Ephesians 2:
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.
“OK, OK, OK, enough of that,” you say. Well then, I must leave you with this picture- a father and a son. Would you agree that God is holy? I think you would. So, now that we have established the common belief that God is holy, that the Bible teaches that Jesus is one with God (because Jesus taught that and that is why the people killed him), and that Jesus was here on earth in the form of a man, the question is now only about how Jesus could be God’s son.
The answer is found by asking, “should God love himself?” I believe that your answer would be(the following will be written as if you were speaking), “Yes, in fact , God should love himself so much that He would never die, nor would he need to die, for we humans who sin. God has saved us through other things because He is a God of mercy.” However, I would say to you, “That is it! You have found the secret to why God sent part of himself to die for our sins!!!!” God did not have to die, but because of his GREAT love for us, He chose to show us that love by giving up a part of himself to DIE so that we could see that His love for us is so extremely great! John 14:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” Then in John 15:15 Jesus said to His disciples, “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.” Therefore, people who believe on the name of Jesus Christ as God and as their one and only savior ARE friends of God and, since Jesus’ death (and resurrection) were for God’s friends, then the only way to be saved from sin is by believing that Jesus Christ is LORD!!!
I AM REALLY INTERESTED ON THIS KIND OF SUBJECT, INFACT I SPEND PART OF MY NIGHT IN GETTING ISLAMIC NEWS/KNOWLEDGE. I WILL BE GRATEFUL IF I COULD GET MORE INFO FROM YOU.
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Try asking your creator tonight, OR ANY TIME….HE’S ALWAYS THERE
THIS IS A
TRANS-DIMENSIONAL UP-LINK TO THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE
O CREATOR OF ME, If there is a way of life you most love out of all the ways of life, then guide me to it,let me understand it and act upon it with the greatest of ease.
Show me truth as truth and help towards that and show me falsehood as falsehood and help me to avoid that.
O CREATOR OF ME, WHEN YOU SHOW THE TRUTH LET ME SEE IT AND UNDERSTAND IT,, LIKE I KNOW BLACK IS BLACK AND WHITE IS WHITE ,,WITHOUT ANY CONFUSION
O Creator protect me from the EVIL around me.
PRAYER FOR THIS RAMZAAN AND EVERYDAY BEFOR AND AFTER RAMZAAN
Your Lord has said:” Make Dua to me, I will Respond to you” surah Ghafir 60. Allaah says:I am indeed near to my them, I respond to the supplication of the supplicant. He also says: Never will I allow to be lost the work any of you be he male or female. surah Al-Imraan
The Prophet Muhammad (may Allaah send his best and choicest Blessings, Mercies and Grace upon him equal to the number of the weight of the ARSH forever) stated the following: There is nothing that is more Noble in the sight of Allaah than DUA. Narrated by Ahmad, Al-Tirmithee, Al-Hakeem. Nothing REPELS PREDESTINATION (TAQDEER) except DUA. Al-Tirmithee. Allaah becomes SHY when his Servant raises his hands to Him in Dua to Return them Empty Handed, and Disappointed. Narrated by Ahmad, Aboo Dawood, Al–Tirmithee Whatever my Servant assumes of me, that is how I Treat him, and I am with him when he Remembers me. By Muslim It is also stated: Make Dua to your Creator in a state that you are CERTAIN that your Prayer will be RESPONDED to, and Know that Allaah WILL NOT ANSWER Dua that comes from a CARELESS and INATTENTIVE HEART. Pray onto Him as though you SEE HIM and if you don’t see him , then verily HE SEES YOU.
According to a Hadeeth: An Angel is appointed by Allaah, so when it hears someone saying: “YA AR HAMARAH HEHMEEN” 3 times the Angel responds: “
No doubt, The Most Merciful has FOCUSED all his ATTENTION towards you, ASK FOR WHATEVER YOU PLEASE.”
When the Prophet Muhammad (SALLALLA HO ALAIYHE WASALLAM) heard someone saying: “YA AR HAMARAH HEHMEEN”, he said “ASK FOR WHATEVER YOU PLEASE FOR ALLAAH’S BOUNTIFUL GASE IS FOCUSED TOWARDS YOU”.
O Allaah send Praise upon yourself the way you praise yourself, equal to the amount of the number of the weight of the Arsh times the number of everything you have created, and send that upon yourself continuously and eternally.
O Allaah send the Best and Choiciest Blessings, Mercies and Grace upon Our Prophet Muhammad(SALLALLA HO ALAIYHE WASALLAM), his Family and Descendants, and his Companions and their Families, Equal to the amount of the number of the weight of the Arsh times Infinitely number of everything you have created and will Create in the future., give the reward for this to me, my family and our past, present and future generations and to all the believers in you, all the way back to Hazrat Adam(peace be upon him).
O Allah, you love to forgive, beg of you to forgive me, my family, our friends and the Muslim Ummah for our Major and Minor sins, hidden, open, intentional, and unintentional sins, weather they were past, present and future sins. You are the MOST MERCIFUL OF ALL THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY continue to shower us with your Special, Blessings, Mercies and Grace, until we meet you.
O Allaah, I seek thy Protection from Anxiety and Sorrow, Inaction and Laziness, from Cowardness, Negligence and from heavy Debt and from the oppression of men. O Allaah allow us and Guide us and make easy for us to follow Prophet Muhammad’s(SALLALLA HO ALAIYHE WASALLAM) Guidance, until we meet thee.
O Allaah, give me, my family and friends: Knowledge of this World, the Next world, Spiritual Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, and such Knowledge that will help us to have Khushoo in worship and such Knowledge that will help us to become one of your Chosen ones and to be amongst the People who are Rightly Guided and that also Guide Others on the Right Path. O Allaah, give us Divine Assistance Continuously.
O Allaah, Give me, my family and friends Divine help and permission to do All our Salaat, Zikar and Dua’s in such way that it cause’s Extreme Level’s of Love and pleasure in you towards us every day, and until we meet You. And let it be a means for us to be the Rightly Guided and your Chosen One. Give us divine assistance in our worship so it is a means for us to Secure a place under the Shade of ARSH and to be able to go to JANNATUL-FIRDOUS without being Reckoned on the Day of Judgement.
O Lord, do not cause our hearts to waver after they have received Guidance and give Mercy to us from thyself, verily you are the Giver..O Allaah, forgive me have Mercy on me, grant me Peace, Guide me aright, grant me Sustenance, supply my Deficiency and Elevate me, I am needy towards thee for whatever good you may Choose to grant me.
O Allaah, Grant me, my family and friends Fear of thee forever as if we have Thy Vision with the naked eye, Bless us with piety, let not our Souls be Ruined by the Corruption of Sin. Enlist among the Chosen Ones by your Forgoing Decree, add your Blessings to Gift. All this to the Extent that we would not like to hasten what thou has delayed and to delay what thou choose to hasten and make us contented from all else.
O Allaah, convey Durood (salaam) to our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his members of family and such a Durood as will relieve us of the fear of all things through it and get us freedom from all calamities and will get all our wishes fulfilled through it and will get piety from all evils by its means. Exalt us to high ranks by its means. And reach us to the satisfaction of our last hopes through it and all goodness while alive and after death, verily thou art the accepter of all the Dua’s and the exalter of our stages and ranks. And O you the sufficer in our hardship and O the evader of all calamities listen to my complaint, here my cry, listen to my complaint O Allah, thou are the most Powerful over all.
O Allaah destroy your enemies, my enemies and the enemies of lslaam, stop Muslims doing terrorist act in the name of Islaam, expose them and their helpers and supporters, either give them guidance or destroy them. give Muslims extreme levels of peace and security and unity that we will not be effected by any external forces -secret societies known and unknown to us that are using methods known and unknown to us which stopping people from treading they path using poisons in the air, water, food (eg: HAARP, FLORIDE, ASPARTAME etc)
O Allaah send the ILLUMINATI, FREEMASONS, ZIONIST, ROCKERFELLARS AND THE ROTHCHILDS AND ALL OTHER EVIL ORGANISATIONS BACK A 1000 YEARS IN THIER EVIL PLANNING, YOU ARE THE BEST OF PLANNERS SAVE US AND PROTECT US FROM THEM AND THIER EVIL PLANNING.
O Allaah give more people in the West Guidance, especially people in the Sports, Music, Film Industries and Government personnel from around the world let become rightly Guided and the guide other with the greatest of ease and do actions word and deeds of your Chosen Ones. O Allaah increase the level of guidance you give to the west by more than a 1000%. Let there be a time within the next 5 years that there are more than a third of the populations in each western country that are rightly guided Muslims and new Muslims.
O Allaah save us from the evils of the Jinn, Shaiytaan, Dajjal, Black Magic and Evil Eye and help us to learn the appropriate Dua’s to be safeguarded from them every day ,and all the way up to the time we meet you.
HERE MENTION ANYTHING ELSE YOU WISH, DESIRE AND NEED……………………THEN FINISH WITH AAMEEN.