The Arab ritual prayer
These simplified instructions will enable anyone to complete the dance of the Arab prayer ritual. Born to a Muslim family, the author personally performed this ritual countless times throughout his life before he called it a day many years ago. I must remind the reader, it is vital that every utterance in the Arab prayer ritual be in Arabic. The
English-speaking Muslims may not even say a simple phrase like, ?Praise be to You my Lord? in English.
Here, is a summary of the basic procedure for those who have never performed an Arab prayer ritual
? First, wash out your mouth with water, blow your nose, wash your face, your hands, your forehead, your ears, your neck, and your legs and then speak to God in Arabic and tell Him you are going to ritually pray to Him.
? Find a spot and make sure you face the stone idol in Mecca. If you are in Japan the direction is westwards, but if you are in Europe the direction is the eastwards, obviously.
? Then, stand properly with the hands folded on your belly. Various sects have their own specific ways of
placing the hands, and the tutored eye can tell a lot about your doctrine just by looking at the way you hold this position, though variations abound throughout the mosques of the world.
? Then pronounce ?Allah hu akbar?. The word akbar means bigger. So it is ?God is bigger?. (Interestingly, the phrase Allah hu akbar is not found anywhere in the Reading). Then recite some Arabic verses (which you may or may not
comprehend).
The prayer starts with a recitation of a set of speech formulated -The recitations differ from one sect to another. The opening passages of the prayer do not come from the Qur?an except when they utter part of 679, 6161-162. Abraham and Muhammad uttered these verses to the people but the Arabs address them to God- by the religionists before beginning the compulsory recital of Al Fatiha (the first surah, consisting of seven verses). Typically, this will be followed by a short surah from toward the end of the Reading. Surahs 111, 112, 113 and 114 are particular favourites as they are very short and generally considered the minimum (along with Al Fatiha) that a Muslim should be expected to memorise -When people are willing to memorise without understanding it is a sign of their willingness to be shackled without thinking. If we train a parrot to say 'good morning', it will say good morning to people even during the night- The religionists say they are praying to God. Yet each of these last surahs begins with an instruction to the Prophet ?Qul!? or ?Say!? followed by exactly what it was he was required to say. However these verses which begin with a direct instruction are habitually addressed to God in the Arab prayer ritual. For example
Say! He is God, the only one. The absolute God. He never begets, nor was He ever begotten. There is none equal to Him. (surah 111)
There are many verses in the Reading that start with an imperative addressing a second person commanding him to recite to a third person or persons. That is the nature of the Revelation. However, the religionists teach their followers to recite these orders back to God in their prayer ritual. In one of their favourite surahs for this purpose, they tell God
Say! O you disbelievers, I do not serve what you serve, nor are you serving what I am serving. I will never serve what you are serving, nor will you ever serve what I am serving. To you is your own way, and to me is my own way. (surah 109)
However, if they choose to recite surah 108 in their prayer, they will tell God
We have given you many bounties. In appreciation, you shall serve your Lord and be charitable. Your enemy will henceforth be the loser. (surah 10
Obviously, not all non-Arabs know what they are saying to God in their ritual prayers. Maybe there is some excuse.
But even native Arabic-speaking Arabs including religionists and Arabic scholars say these things to God every day!
Having finished the liturgy of (frequently inappropriate) verses, you should raise both hands and say ?allah-hu-akbar? or ?God is bigger? again.
Then you bow forward for a few seconds before standing erect and calling out ?God is bigger? again. Then you prostrate ? placing your forehead on the floor ? and recite more Arabic words. Then you should sit up and then prostrate again before rising to the standing position. This procedure represents one unit of prayer. The number of units and whether what you say will be aloud or quiet will depend on a number of factors devised by the religionists such as time of day and ?type? of prayer. Generally, (although there are variations depending on whether you perform the ?extra? night prayers) a Muslim is required to bow seventeen times and prostrate thirty-four times in a twenty-four hour period.
At the end of any one particular set of units, you are to sit and send greetings to Prophet Abraham and Muhammad
and their families (no need to wait for them to reply, however), then greet the ?two angels sitting on both of your shoulders? (again, no reply is expected).
Reading clearly says
You cannot be heard by those in the graves. (3522)
Yet, the followers of the Arab religion the world over are greeting only the dead prophet Muhammad and their families five times a day! We are not supposed to make any distinction between the prophets -As for those who believe in God and His messengers, they make no distinction among any of them. God will recompense them. God is Forgiver and merciful. (4152)- but Isaac, Jacob, Ishmael, Joseph, David, Solomon, Moses, Aaron, Zachariah, John (Yahya), and Jesus were somehow left out of this private club. How very rude.
Sol-laa (commitments) is not ritual prayer
When looking at other words which have had their meanings twisted in the Qur?anic context, we can usually get back to the true meaning by looking at extant words in modern Arabic surrounding the root. Zakaa is a good example. All the root meanings of zakaa refer to purity and sincerity. This can be verified by looking at any good dictionary. As we shall see ? the Arab religion has created the un-Qur?anic tax and ascribed this to the word zakaa. The deception is relatively easy to spot since the key meanings of the word zakaa have remained intact.
Sol-laa is no different. Before we continue let me clarify why I use the word Sol-laa instead of the common term Salaat. Firstly, when we read the Reading in Arabic it is always pronounced as ?Aqimus-Sol-laa- taa-wa-aatuz-Zakaa? ? nobody says ?Aqimus-Salaat-taa-wa-aatuz-Zakat?. This is evident even during the call of prayer. All over the world - the person who announces the prayer will shout on top of his voice with ?Hai-ya-?alas-Sol-laa? ? never as ?Hai-ya-?alas-Salaat?. Muslims know this word is pronounced the way it is spelt in the Reading - Arabs or not.
This is only to demonstrate that - there is a difference between God?s Arabic in the Reading and the Arabic language spoken by the Arabs, and for this study I have chosen to use the former i.e. God?s Arabic
When we look up the word in a dictionary we find a word that is mispronounced by the Muslim world ? Salaat ? under the root S-l-w. It is worth noting that this root has no other meaning directly ascribed to it other than the ?ritual prayer?. There is nothing else.
Whereas almost any key Qur?anic term has related terms which balance and integrate it into the waft and web of the
language (and by means of which we can sense deceptions as and when they occur) this important ? some would say
central ? Qur?anic concept has no ?context? in the language by which to verify the claims made for it by the Arab religionists other than the one created for it by those self-same religionists.
There are no related meanings that one can point to and say Sol-laa must mean what such-and-such because it integrates into the language on the basis of the sense we derive from the word. This is not possible because the word
simply has no semantic context in the religion of the Arabs as we know.
Now, it could be argued that the reason for this is that this word has only one meaning ? unconnected to anything else in the vast and interconnected web of Arabic semantics ? and that the meaning the Arab religionists ascribe to it is, in fact, the correct one. In this case, we would respond by pointing out that since the ritual prayer or Salaat (by the religionists? own measure and admission) is not in the Reading, their own definition of it is of no special value.
The situation we find ourselves in is there is a word ? ?Sol-laa? ? that exists in a semantic vacuum, and the leaders of the religious system say it means X based on their non-Qur?anic writings (the Hadith). Since their non-Qur?anic writings say some patently ludicrous things, and given that the religious elite promotes these non-Qur?anic sources to achieve ends which are usually advantageous only to the religious elite, a thinking person is left wondering what possible use their definition of this word can be to anyone except them.
Just to clear up the point of roots. The root of Sol-laa is S-L. It is a two-root word. They are many such words in the
Reading. Examples of other two-root words found in the Reading are haq (truth, root h-q), abu (father, root a-b) or
yad (hand, root y-d) or Qama (the keep vigil or attentive, root q-m).
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