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| WHY DO MUSLIMS PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY? | | | | crossed the zenith but before mid-afternoon), |
| The Catholic Christian Prime Minister of the | | | | - once in the later afternoon (but before the |
| island-State of St. Vincent in the Caribbean is | | | | setting of the sun), |
| reported (Trinidad Guardian, May 8th) to have | | | | - once after the sun had set, |
| entered into the Mt. St. Benedict Monastery in | | | | - and finally in the early hours of the night (after |
| Trinidad for a spiritual retreat during which he will | | | | twilight had ended). |
| join the monks in praying "five times a day". | | | | On each occasion that day he led the prayer at |
| Even while a wicked godless white world-order is | | | | the earliest time possible. He then returned |
| waging unjust war on Islam and Muslims, there | | | | another day and again led the Prophet in the |
| are many people in the Caribbean who have | | | | same five times prayer, but this time he chose |
| defied the warmongers and have chosen to | | | | the latest possible time for each prayer. The |
| become Muslims, and their numbers are | | | | Angel then announced that these were the five |
| constantly increasing. When they become Muslims | | | | times of compulsory prayer, and that each |
| by proclaiming that there is no God but Allah, and | | | | prayer was to be performed within the |
| that Muhammad is His Servant and Messenger, | | | | timeframe just established. In addition to these |
| they are taught, first of all, to pray 'five times a | | | | compulsory prayers there are voluntary prayers |
| day'. | | | | that could be performed at any time, but best of |
| In this essay we enquire into the origin of 'five | | | | all in the early hours of the morning before dawn. |
| times' daily prayer and, in so doing, ponder over | | | | Since there is but One God, and hence but one |
| the implications of its abandonment, or its | | | | Truth, and only one true religion (i.e., the religion of |
| substitution with something else. We also describe | | | | 'Abraham' from whose name the name 'Brahma' |
| those 'five times' of daily prayer. We feel certain | | | | appears to have originated) the implication is that |
| that the monks in that monastery will find this | | | | whoever worships the One true God must pray |
| subject quite interesting. tv stands | | | | these five times compulsory prayers every day. |
| Prophet Muhammad, sallalahu 'alaihi wa sallam, was | | | | Anyone who does not perform the five times |
| forty years of age when Angel Gabriel appeared | | | | daily prayers lives an essentially pagan life since |
| before him and informed him that he was a | | | | the compulsory prayer is the very foundation of |
| Prophet of the One God. He was himself | | | | the religious way of life. |
| unaware, prior to that event, of this status of his. | | | | When Jesus, the true Messiah, 'alaihi al-salaam, |
| And even though we know that he never | | | | returns, he, also, will pray five times a day in the |
| worshipped the idols of Arabia that even his wife | | | | same way that Angel Gabriel taught Prophet |
| worshipped, we do not know if, or how, he | | | | Muhammad to pray, and in the same way that |
| prayed daily. | | | | Muslims pray to this day (without chairs, benches, |
| There were other Arabs, known as Hunafa, who | | | | pews, etc.) |
| also refused to worship idols. They worshipped | | | | They stand barefooted before Allah Most High in |
| One God, made the annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to His | | | | prayer, then bow down, sit flat, and prostrate |
| Holy Temple in Makkah that Abraham, 'alaihi | | | | themselves with their faces on the earth. They |
| al-Salaam, had built, and sacrificed animals every | | | | do so 'five times a day', and will continue to do so |
| year on the occasion of that pilgrimage in | | | | Insha Allah in defiance of the godless world, and |
| commemoration of Abraham's trial of sacrifice of | | | | regardless of the price they already pay for that |
| his only son, Ishmael, 'alaihima al-Salaam. | | | | defiance. |
| Sometime after that first visit the Angel came | | | | And they do so with the absolute conviction that |
| one day and taught Muhammad, sallalahu 'alaihi wa | | | | Truth must eventually triumph over its wicked |
| sallam, how to perform ablution before prayer. | | | | godless enemies. |
| The hands were to be washed, then the mouth, | | | | They also recite in every prayer the opening |
| nostrils and entire face, then the arms up to the | | | | Surah of the Qur'an in which they ask to be |
| elbows, then the wet hand was to be passed | | | | guided on "the straight path - the path of those |
| over the head, and finally the feet were to be | | | | whom Thou hast blessed, not the path of those |
| washed. coffee tables | | | | who earn Thine anger, nor of those who go |
| Some eleven years later, after the Prophet had | | | | astray." |
| been summoned in a miraculous celestial journey | | | | Those who are today waging unjust war on Islam |
| by night from Makkah to Jerusalem and then into | | | | and Muslims most certainly earn Allah's anger, and |
| the heavens to the special Divine presence, and | | | | those who support such people, for whatever |
| had received the Divine gift of 'five times daily | | | | foolish reason, are certainly a people who have |
| prayer', Angel Gabriel came to him one day and | | | | gone astray. |
| led him in prayer five times during that day, | | | | |