My PERSONAL conclusions about salaat (contact prayer)

GODsubmitter

An excellent site with an excellent overall explanations of the Qur'an

http//www.quransmessage.com/

with an excellent section on prayer

http//www.quransmessage.com/articles/prayer%20FM3.htm

sun

PS
I congratulate and thank the author/creator of that site! I found many answers to my long pondered questions there. God bless!

unknownuser

An excellent site with an excellent overall explanations of the Qur'an

http//www.quransmessage.com/

with an excellent section on prayer

http//www.quransmessage.com/articles/prayer%20FM3.htm

sun

PS
I congratulate and thank the author/creator of that site! I found many answers to my long pondered questions there. God bless!

I too have visited the site before...it is a very good reference! Thanks for posting the links!

Peace,

Amina

hawk99

Peace GODsubmitter,

I like those links.

I view salat as an opportunity to

Obey Allah
Commune with Allah
refocus my priorities
Practice my deen
relax
increase circulation through out body and brain

I see salat as a wonderful gift, given to me for my benefit, for Allah is in no need I am!

Peace O0

good_logic

Peace All.

Successful indeed are the believers;

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who are reverent during their Contact Prayers (Salat).

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Peace.

GODsubmitter

Thank you @good logic, @hawkninetynine, @scaredmuslimah,

for your replies.

) group peace

GODsubmitter

Salat Is Not Just A Prayer

The salat can best be described as the contact prayer
(the root word sila means to make contact). Strictly
speaking, it is not the same concept of prayer that
people in the West understand when they say, Oh, we
pray to God all the time, usually upon learning that
Muslims pray five times a day. This is supplication,
the act of asking God for whatever needs one has at the
moment. Indeed, people who believe in the Creator,
including Muslims, do this all the time. But salat is
a daily ritual of making regular contact with God,
facing a certain direction, using an ancient formula
which begins with washing to purify oneself, and
includes the specific acts of bowing, kneeling and
prostration to symbolize total submission to Him.

http//web.archive.org/web/20010611092954/http//members.aol.com/worshpgod/sala-haj.txt

GODsubmitter

Biblical Perspective Washing

Both the Old and the New Testaments mention many
specific aspects of the contact prayer. For example,
the act of washing to purify oneself before facing God
in prayer is mentioned in Exodus 3017-21, 4030-32,
Psalm 266 and James 48, among others. (Moses, Aaron
and his sons) washed their hands and feet whenever they
entered the Tent of Meeting or approaching the altar,
as the Lord commanded Moses... (Exodus 4032)

Posture Of Humility In Prayers

References to kneeling and prostration to express one's
humbleness before the Almighty abound in the
Bible, practiced by such notables as Abraham, Moses and
Aaron, Joshua, Elijah, Solomon and Jesus
(Genesis 173, Numbers 206, Joshua 514, 1 Kings
1842, 1 Kings 854, Matthew 2636-39, Acts
2030).

Moses and Aaron fell facedown at the Tent of Meeting...
(Numbers 206)(The people) fell prostrate and cried,
The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God! ....Elijah
bent down to the ground and put his face between his
knees... (1 Kings 1839,42)

http//web.archive.org/web/20010611092954/http//members.aol.com/worshpgod/sala-haj.txt

hawk99

Peace GODsubmitter,

Many excellent points you make.

Peace O0

GODsubmitter

Thank you @hawkninetynine for your appreciation. )

God bless sun

group

peace

GODsubmitter

Contact Prayers (Salat) Divinely Preserved

http//www.19miracle.org/contact-prayers-salat-divinely-preserved/

hawk99

Peace GODsubmitter,

Outstanding link,

I believe that there is divine preservation. Why would one come to the conclusion that during the
historical times of the prophet muhammad that he would have nothing to say during Jum"a (i.e.,
the khutbah) because it is not in Quran?
Despite some biblical corruptions the truth can be found therein if one is guided.
As I noted previously all muslims observe the five positions of salat! can this be a coincidence?
I think not.

Peace O0

GODsubmitter

Peace @hawkninetynine,

thank you for your reply and compliments.
I agree plainly with you and I also think it is no concidence.
I follow your posts elsewhere, too.

Praise be to God alone!

peace

GODsubmitter

Principle of Friday Prayer (Jumma)

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8_KIh7CEMc

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkjIsdpXgU0&feature=relmfu

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JIA8w2gsI8&feature=relmfu

hawk99

Peace GODsubmitter,

Thanks for the informative links

The secret to monotheism rests in the garden of eden

uq

Dear GODsubmitter,

Thank you for sharing your views with the forum.

I was greatly relieved to read that you re-analysed your position on Safar's work.

A great deal of Safar's work is, sadly, sheer conjecture; either that, or he is misinformed.

If the prior, I pray he desists; if the latter, no blame is on him.

Knowledge is power, educate yourself and you will be guarded to a considerable extent against such vulgar propaganda.

"God increases with guidance the ones who seek guidance."

GODsubmitter

Dear @uq,

thank you for your post!

Yes dear friend, I did re-analysed my position on Safar's work... and returned to being fully convinced that Dr. Rashad Khalifa PhD is the messenger of the covenant.

We all might have doubts now and then, and we are all searching the Straight Path, are we not?

GOD points out the paths, including the wrong ones. If He willed, He could have guided all of you.

At one point I almost even stopped believing in the Qur'an and joined some discussions on this Forum, only to discover that they proved to be somewhat unfruitful...

So, I suppose one can find a few contradictory posts made by me (and others) in this Forum, as we ponder and examine our research and progress.

I pray God guide us all! group

All the best to you.

Best regards

GODsubmitter

An excellent computer desktop software for Salat times, very programmable with the possibilities to play personally pre-recorded Athans etc.

You can download it from here
http//www.salaattime.com/salaat-time/

Enjoy!

sun

GODsubmitter

It is very important not to add or omit anything during the Contact prayer (Salat) because it is strictly structured and mathematically proven what so say and how many times.

Important
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOxG-cDrGw&feature=relmfu

It is also the combination of sounds and the mystical vibration that emanates from those words that is important!

Learn all about the Contact Prayers (Salat) here
http//www.masjidtucson.org/submission/practices/salat/

Shabat shalom!

hafeez_kazi

Peace to all

Before jumping to conclusions, please read the following verses

O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere. 2153

we should seek HELP in Prayers as did Zakariya

While he was standing in prayer in the chamber, the angels called unto him "Allah doth give thee glad tidings of Yahya, witnessing the truth of a Word from Allah, and (be besides) noble, chaste, and a prophet,- of the (goodly) company of the righteous." 339

He said "O my Lord! How shall I have son, seeing I am very old, and my wife is barren?" "Thus," was the answer, "Doth Allah accomplish what He willeth." 340

He said "O my Lord! Give me a Sign!" "Thy Sign," was the answer, "Shall be that thou shalt speak to no man for three days but with signals. Then celebrate the praises of thy Lord again and again, and glorify Him in the evening and in the morning." 341

Read the highlighted words HE SAID

Zakariya was SAYING to his LORD

He was not RECITING from the Books but saying to the God.

Now read this

O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again. 443

ZAKARIYA sought HELP in his prayers, and SAID to God

So the prayer has TWO main aspects, besides glorifying HIM

SEEKING HELP

SAYING to ALLAH.

(the Shahadah in prayer is literally said to mankind and not to Allah)

WHAT WE DO IS RECITE TO GOD FROM HIS OWN QURAN REVEALED FOR MANKIND AS A GUIDANCE ,WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. (It is totally nonsense)

Thanks

GODsubmitter

Thank you estimated @hafeez kazi for your post and addition.
I say estimated because I greatly appreciated your posts elsewhere, and I am honoured that you wrote on my thread too.

I agree fully with you, although I would like to stress the difference between the prayer dua (or davening), a simple prayer done anytime to speak with Almighty God, from the Salat or the Contact Prayer with prescribed positions and words (strictly and always from the Qur'an only) in order to establish the five daily contacts with Allah.

?No prayer?s complete without a present mind.?

Glory be to God alone