What do muslims pray about?
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Prayers as currently used in muslim context to refer to 2 types, one is the 5 times prayer(Salaat)  and second is the prayer to God during other times.\n\nRegarding salaat prayer, there is a basic method of doing it. It involves standing, bowing, prostrating, sitting in a particular order. During standing Quran sura fathiha(mentioned above by abushible) has to be recited and optionally also any other sura. During other positions, God is praised in various wordings. In the final sitting before prayer end, there is a prayer for prophet,for us  and all the good devotees of God. There is also a special prayer to bless prophet mohammed and his people like God blessed prophet Abraham and his people. \n\nMuslims use there own wording for other prayers or use prayers mentioned in Quran or prophets sayings. One most prayed prayer from Quran is \n"Our Lord! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter, and save us from the chastisement of the fire." Quran 2:201.\n\nMuslims are to pray to God alone for whatever they need to pray.
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Muslims believe in OneUnique, Incomparable God; in the Angels created by Him; in the prophets through whom His revelations were brought to mankind; in the Day of Judgement and individual accountability for actions; in God's complete authority over human destiny and in life after death. Muslims believe in a chain of prophets starting with Adam and including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah, John the Baptist, and Jesus, peace be upon them. But God's final message to man, a reconfirmation of the eternal message and a summing-up of all that has gone before was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through Gabriel.\n\nA true Muslim must accept 5 main articles of faith. These are known as the shahada (witness) :\n\nlst Article : Belief in Allah as the one true God. This is a strict, numerical monotheism. A Muslim looks at the Judeo-Christian view of a unity in the Godhead with contempt.\n\n2nd Article : Belief in angels as instruments of God's will. Mohammed allegedly received his revelation from the angel Gabriel.\n\n3rd Article : Belief in the 4 inspired books - the Torah (5 books of Moses), the Zabur (the psalms), the lnjil (the gospel), and the final revelation, the Koran.\n\nMuslims claim that the Koran has been kept perfectly unlike the Christian Bible. While they claim to respect the Bible, they also believe that it has been corrupted. The Muslims make incredible claims about their writings and will always compare our Bible to the Koran for testing the truth. However, many of their claims cannot be substantiated and scholars have decidedly proven them untrue.\n\n4th Article : Belief in the 28 prophets of Allah, Mohammed being the last and the greatest.\n\nAccording to Islam, there are 124,000 prophets (Note: No one has ever seen the listing of names) which comprised the history of the human race, but there are 28 main prophets which include : Adam, Noah, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus. Jesus is viewed as just another prophet in line with the others.\n\n5th Article : Belief in a final Day of Judgment.\n\nOnly those who obey Allah and his prophet can enter into Heaven (hopefully). All others will be sent to Hell.\n\nSo, if one wants to become a Muslim they need to say the shahada, bearing witness that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet. The Islamic believer must perform good works which will be weighed at the end of their life. If Allah is graceful and merciful, the Muslim will enter Heaven. However, the Koran teaches that Allah is arbitrary in passing out his mercy, and no one has any guarantee of making it. The only sure way to make it to Heaven is if the Muslim dies in a Jihad. Only then will they go directly to Heaven. This is their only assurance for salvation. This explains why so many Muslims willingly give their lives in terroristic acts for their cause.\n\nMuslims also have 5 main pillars of Faith and they are;\n\n1. FAITH\nThere is no god worthy of worship except God and Muhammad is His messenger. This declaration of faith is called the Shahada.\n\n2. PRAYER\nSalah is the name for the obligatory prayers which are performed five times a day, and are a direct link between the worshipper and God.\n\n3. THE "ZAKAT"\nOne of the most important principles of Islam is that all things belong to God, and that wealth is therefore held by human beings in trust. The word zakat means both 'purification' and 'growth'. Our possessions are purified by setting aside a proportion for those in need, and, like the pruning of plants, this cutting back balances and encourages new growth.\n\n4. THE FAST\nEvery year in the month of Ramadan, all Muslims fast from first light until sundown, abstaining from food, drink, and sexual relations. Those who are sick, elderly, or on a journey, and women who are pregnant or nursing are permitted to break the fast and make up an equal number of days later in the year. If they are physically
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Muslims believe in the God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob\nChristians believe in the God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob\n\nMuslims believes in one God\nChristians believe in one God (Not three as mis-represented by some)\n\nMuslims believe that Jesus Christ was a prophet\nChristians believe that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh\n\nMuslims do not accept Jesus Christ's death and resurrection as atonement for the sin of all mankind\nChristans accept Jesus Christ's death and resurrection as atonement for the sin of all mankind\n\nMuslims believe that in a time of Jihad that all infidels(enemies or non believers) should be killed\nChristians believe that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us\n\nMuslims believe conversion by the sword\nChristians believe conversion by the heart\n\nMuslims do not believe that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead\nChristians believe that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead
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sufi muslims live their life like a prayer - everything they do they consider to be prayer like (such cooking dinner is a prayer)\n\nWhirling Dirvish is also in a way a prayer.... they spin with one hand facing earth one hand facing heaven
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They can pray anywhere even in a Church or a Temple, as long as the place is reasonable clean and they are facing the Kaaba.  But, they will not let others pray in their mosques, because non Muslims are not clean, and they are the only one who are!!!! That is one of the reasons who they forbid people from entering their holy cities, but they can go anywhere they wish.
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Some people just enjoy praying so politely say Amen!\n\n(You are so FUNNY!)
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Well they pray to statues.  That is a pagan tradition.
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what do you need to know? Muslims are normal human beings with dreams of a peaceful life just like any other person in the world, be more specific in your question
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Peace on you...Islam honors all the prophets who were sent to mankind. Muslims respect all prophets in general, but Jesus in particular, because he was one of the prophets who foretold the coming of Muhammad. Muslims, too, await the second coming of Jesus. They consider him one of the greatest of Allah's prophets to mankind. A Muslim does not refer to him simply as "Jesus," but normally adds the phrase "peace be upon him" as a sign of respect. \nNo other religion in the world respects and dignifies Jesus as Islam does. The Qur'an confirms his virgin birth (a chapter of the Qur'an is entitled "Mary"), and Mary is considered to have been one of the purest women in all creation. The Qur'an describes Jesus' birth as follows: \n\n"Behold!' the Angel said, God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and in the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and he shall be of the righteous. She said: "My Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' \nHe said: "Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing, \nHe says to it, 'Be!' and it is." [3:42-47]\n\nMuslims believe that Jesus was born immaculately, and through the same power which had brought Eve to life and Adam into being without a father or a mother.\n\n"Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was." [3:59]\n\nDuring his prophetic mission, Jesus performed many miracles. The Qur'an tells us that he said: \n\n"I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave." [3:49]\n\nMuhammad and Jesus, as well as the other prophets, were sent to confirm the belief in one God. This is referred to in the Qur'an where Jesus is reported as saying that he came:\n\n"To attest the law which was before me, and to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and obey me." [3:50]\n\nProphet Muhammad emphasized the importance of Jesus by saying: \n"Whoever believes there is no god but Allah, alone without partner, that Muhammad is His messenger, that Jesus is a servant and messenger of God, His word breathed into Mary and a spirit emanating from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, shall be received by God into Heaven. [Bukhari]
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Except what- they're not MUSLIMS?\n\nDie, infidel, die, die, DIE!!!!!!!!
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I'm a muslim. I believe in GOD, the creator of everything, and that there is only one GOD. And I believe in all the great prophets; Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, and all the others. And I respect all human beings, and wish them well.
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It is their belief and they are praying. If their prayers are yeilded it is good only and there is nothing wrong. At least we should understand and appreciate their good intentionand trying  for peacem, though there is no authantic evidance that prayers will stop war. Then why people all over the world inrespective of their religion and faith pray for something or other.
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Praying is a personal believe. I think it is funny to see someone pray in public! It is a "look at me". This is the ONLY reason people pray in public.\nThe place you work for can not be all that big! If it was this question would not have came up. Don't they teach tolerance in your religion??
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It depends what you mean by pray. \nThere is 'salat' which involves not only prayers or supplication in words but also some body movements of standing with your arms folded slightly below your chest, bowing and then prostrating (like kissing the ground) and repeating this cycle either twice, thrice or four times depending on which out of the 5 'salats'. At every position, muslims recite in Arabic, prayers usually involving praising God, the Beneficent, the Merciful, Mostworthy of Praises.\nCompulsory salats are done 5 times throughout the day at specified times. The optional ones, suffice to say, can be done anytime up to how many times as you please.\n\nThere is also 'do'a' - a form of prayer where you sit in contemplation and ask God anything that you wish for, world peace, happiness for yourself, for others. Anything at all. Muslims pray for their parents, their children, friends and whomoever they  wish well. This can be done anytime, anywhere, in the buses and trains. It can be said in a whisper, loudly if the occasion permits and best in tears of humility. The prophet Muhammad taught specific do'as for various occasion in the daily life; you recite something specific the moment you wake up, put on your makeup, combing your hair, putting on a dress and I am not kidding, there is a specific do'a for everything and this ain't Dionne Warwicke lyrics.\n\n'Salat' takes precedence between the two as it is compulsory and a Muslim is judged by it on Judgment Day. \n\nStatistics shows that only 20% of Muslims worldwide perform the salat regularly, let alone use the do'a as a daily habitual practice. Hope that this might answer your question.
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I pray to God for forgiveness\nI call my parents n say how much i love them\nI call my friends n say how much they are important for me\nI take a shower\nI pray (namaz(im a Muslim))
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I pray for it.\nInshallah.
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Muslims may be taught the lie. The most I can do is pray that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will make His Name great among all people. By the way were're not always wrong.