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MEETING WITH
A REAL FRIEND
Abdullah Yldz
PRAYER IS A REALIZATION OF
TAWHD
(UNITY OF ALLAH)
Prayer turns
the believers into
active subjects
and not passive
objects.
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bring for the Last Day? Or did you not expect to come
back from the world to afterlife and stand in the presence
of Allah? Did you regard news of afterlife in the Quran
as frivolous?
If you believe in hereafter, how can you stand at the
friends door empty handed? Give up sleeping, eating
and drinking just a little bit and prepare your gift for the
time when you will meet the Truth. O lover of truth be
among those who sleep little at night and beg forgiveness
of their vices in the middle of the night.
Like a fetus in the womb move and wiggle, so you may
be bestowed senses to see the Light. If you get out from
this womb-like, distressed, troubled and sorrowful Earth,
you will go into a wider and more comfortable world.
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Jeffrey Lang
MY FIRST
PROSTRATION
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Yaar Alptekin
I WAS REBORN
WITH PRAYER
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If that man in the coffin were me, would I be different?
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Sezai Karako
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A new Muslim convert
American professor Jeffrey
Lang explains his first
prostration in a remarkable
and fascinating passage
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PRAYER CAN BE
PERFORMED TODAY
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O my soul! Know that yesterday has left
you, and as for tomorrow, you have nothing
to prove that it will be yours.
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Alija Izzetbegovic
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Life separates people from each other, and
mosque brings them together and unites them
again and again.
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Roger Garaudy
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Prayer is the expression of that a world
in harmony can only be established by
turning to Allah.
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Vehbi Karaka
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they are not giving Allah His right. People who do not
give Allah His right will not pay attention to the rights
of others. Even if they do pay attention it will not be
acceptable, because Allah will not be pleased, since that
person does not perform their prayers. All the actions
of a person who performs their prayers turn into acts of
worship, and bring that person divine rewards.
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not performing prayer is not
merely one misdeed, but is one
thousand misdeeds
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Cemil Tokpnar
IS IT WORTH CRYING
OVER MISSING
THE PRAYER TIME?
Years ago while I was traveling on a bus, the time for
fajr (dawn) prayer came. The end of the allocated time
for the prayer was fast approaching.
I turned to my friend accompanying me and said:
The prayer time is almost over. I will ask the driver
to stop for prayer. If he does not stop, I will get off. He
frowned and retorted:
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Unfortunately we live in such a time
that thinking about fajr prayer is regarded
madness, and crying over for missing it is
considered weirdness.
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Veysel Akkaya
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It is impossible to think about the Prophets (pbuh)
life without mosques or congregation.
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THE FAREWELL
PRAYER
After iqmah (standing to prayer), before the Imam
starts the prayer, he says: sall salt al-muwaddi`
(meaning: pray the farewell prayer); Pray like those
who are leaving this world, like those who are waving
to the world and looking at it for the last time! This
was one of the prayer traditions of the Salaf al-Slihn.
This important reminder has a positive effect on gaining
consciousness of the prayer.
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PRAYER CONNECTS
THE PERSON TO
THE UNIVERSE
Ahmet Tagetiren
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We must continually struggle for the perfection
of every aspect of our prayer.
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Fethullah Glen
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Prayer is faith in practice, and faith is prayer
in theory
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Muhammad Asad
PRAYER:
HUMILITY AND OBEDIENCE
Even during the days that I didnt have any inclination
to convert Islam, I felt an unusual humility and strange
feeling of obedience wiggling inside me whenever I saw a
man who is bare foot, on a carpet or prayer rug, standing,
his hands tied in front of him, his head bent down,
unaware of what was happening around, concentrated
only on himself, and peaceful.
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