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Bliss and Benefit of The Prescribed Prayers

Bliss and Benefit of The Prescribed Prayers What Bliss And Benefit Come With The Prescribed Prayers (Salah)? In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate O you people, worship… (The Quran 2:21) If you wish to understand the bliss and benefit that come with prayer, and the grave loss...

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Hardship Of Daily Prayers

Hardship Of Daily Prayers This article covers the hardship of daily prayers. Does Praying Five Times a Day is Boring and Wearying? Once, a man of considerable age, great stature, and high social position said to me: ‘The prayer is OK, but five times a day is too much; it...

Daily Prayers

Daily Prayers

Daily Prayers Why Was Doing The Daily Prayer Prescribed Five Times A Day? You ask me the reasons for the apportioning of the daily prayers into five definite durations. I’ll take up just one of very many reasons. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate” Glory be to...

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20 Ways To Renew Yourself

20 Ways To Renew Yourself This article covers 20 ways to renew yourself. There is nothing more exciting than living a life of constant self-renewal.  Self-renewal is the attention you give towards ensuring that your life is forward-moving, with every step bringing you closer to who you really are.  It...

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Dana

Dana Dāna (दान) is a Sanskrit and Pali word that connotes the virtue of generosity, charity or giving of alms in Indian philosophies. It is alternatively transliterated as daana.  In Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, dāna is the practice of cultivating generosity. It can take the form of giving to an individual in distress or need.It can also take the...

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Alms And Almsgiving

Alms And Almsgiving Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity, is (alms and) almsgiving. It is evident, then, that almsgiving implies much more than the transmission of some temporal commodity to the indigent. According to the creed of political economy, every material deed wrought by...

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For The Conquest and Dominion of Hearts

For The Conquest and Dominion of Hearts For The Conquest and Dominion of Hearts is about morality and human virtues. Over the last few centuries mankind have suffered hardships after hardships, travelling around pits of ‘death’. Their struggles for deliverance and relief have all resulted in new calamities. During this...

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A Mother’s Prayer

A Mother’s Prayer This article (A Mother’s Prayer) has been published in Fountain Magazine in July 1993. I was allowed to stay in the hospital at my son’s bedside not as his mother but as a doctor. He was taken into care in a special room in the hospital, along...

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How Should Believers Invite Others to Faith?

How Should Believers Invite Others to Faith? This article covers the answer to the question: “How Should Believers Invite Others to Faith?“ The aim of sending the Prophets is communicating the divine message, which is the most important and vital obligation incumbent on humanity. That is to say, to enlighten...

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Polytheism

What Is Polytheism? Polytheism is the belief of multiple deities also usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own Myth and rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either...

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God, His Essence And Attributes

God, His Essence And Attributes This article covers God, His Essence and Attributes. God is absolutely other than His creation. The Creator cannot by any means be the same kind of being as that which He created. Although this is self-evident to sense and reason, some people still ask why...

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Prayer For Another

Prayer For Another There is a certain time, sometimes space for praying for another. It is one in accordance with the conditions of its acceptability. A prayer is more or less acceptable in consideration of certain conditions being met. For example, when one prays to God for something, he should...

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The Journey Beyond Being

The Journey Beyond Being We have risen to make a journey extending far into the realms beyond being. O God, Most High: We behold the spectacle that You have laid out before us, Your most original and striking works made in the most perfect form, to which You invite our...

Meaning Of Different Times Of Prayers

Meaning Of Different Times Of Prayers

Meaning Of Different Times Of Prayers What Is The Reasons for The Apportioning of The Daily Prayers Into Five Definite Duration? Glory be to God whenever you reach evening and whenever you rise in the morning, and all praise is for Him in the heavens and on earth, and in...

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Is There Any Necessary For Praying And Worshipping

Is There Any Necessary For Praying And Worshipping This article is about the importance of praying and worshipping. There are five points to explain this question. FIRST POINT Supplication is a mighty mystery of worship; indeed, it is like the spirit of worship. As we have mentioned in many places,...

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Is It Possible For Us Give Enough Thanks To God?

Is It Possible For Us Give Enough Thanks To God? This article covers the answer to the question: “Is It Possible For Us Give Enough Thanks To God For Even A Morsel Food?“ If only the picture of a bunch of grapes had been shown to us, could the whole...

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A Supplication Or Praise Master Of Universe

A Supplication Or Praise Master Of Universe Supplication (petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., “Please spare my life.”) or on behalf of someone else. Praise as a form of social interaction expresses...

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A Special Prayer For Spiritual Healing

A Special Prayer For Spiritual Healing This special prayer for spiritual healing comes from the prophet Job. The gist of the well-known story of Job is as follows: While afflicted with numerous wounds and sores for a long time, he recalled the great recompense to be had for his sickness,...

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Prophet Noah’s Prayers

Prophet Noah’s Prayers We have collected the best Prophet Noah’s prayers to use in requests to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. In Abrahamic religions, Noah was the tenth and last of the...

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Prophet Lot’s Prayer

Prophet Lot’s Prayers Prophet Lot (לוֹט, Lōt, Lōṭ, Lut (لوط‎) “veil” or “covering”) was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life include his journey with his uncle Abram (Abraham) and his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot’s...