is it true that arabs actually dont know how many times a day to pray?
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there Muslim Arabs Christan Arabs Jewish Arabs so which one are you talking about??\ni really can't get what you mean\nif you mean Muslims then Muslims pray 5 times a day
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Arabs are like all kinds of people, there are the good, and there are the bad. \n\nI know a few who are good, and a few who are bad.\n\nGood luck and Salam :)
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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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ASSLAMUALIKUM:my brother i had had the same proplem.everyday i decide to pray and be polite with my parents and donot make such a bad manners but in the following day i stop praying and start again my bad manner.once upon a day i heard my friend saying about asking of allah anything.i asked allah to help me to pray 5 times a day,be polite,read the holly quran and to obey his orders.allah helped me to make my wants because allah know that i have faith in my heart.if u really love allah and if u want to entert he paradise and if u want to avoid the hellfire you have to pray,read the quran and obey allah`s orders.i think that u haves faith in your heart and u can use these faith to be the ideal muslim man. i donot know your age but i know that u are a muslim and you have to be worthy with this word and wit hallah`s gift to u(the gift is that allah made you muslim).finally allah illumenated your sigth when he made u muslim so do not allow to the satan(devil) to dark your sigth by making u leave the pray and make such a bad manners.SO DO NOT ALLOW TO THE SATAN TO MAKE U ENTER THE HILLFIRE.MAY ALLAH BLESS U
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Have you heard of Iraq?\n\nWesterners are still trying to enforce their will on Arabs.\n\nLittle has changed.\n\nlove and blessings Don
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A lot of Muslims disagree with a lot of the things that we do here.  But, many of them learn how to deal with it.  They continue to practice their religon.  Many of them continue to worship Allah and bow to the Holy Land 5 times a day.
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Well, throughout history, there has been thousands.  Just about every culture had the own gods.  Greeks had over 40 gods, Egyptions had over 60 gods, and those are just the obvious ones.  What about the Inka's, and various American Indian cultures.  Even the middle east before Mohamed brought Allah and Jesus brought Christianity had hundreds of Gods... One for just about everything.  Exact numbers, I don't think any would ever be able to give you that, but I could be wrong, let's see what is posted (other than the Christians who say only one god, and muslims who say only one allah).
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Only Allah knows if he excepts a late prayer or any prayer for that matter. He excepts our deeds as He pleases. But I do know that each prayer has a time and you need to do everything in your power to pray it on time. If you don't do it on purpose Allah knows your heart and knows your intentions. Remember half the deed is the intention. So you should make the intention to pray on time and do your best to do so. And pray to Allah that He helps you and excepts your prayers.
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growing from a child to a man? He is full of it. \n\nmuslims pray five times a day. morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and at night.\n\n- for each prayer they start with the opening book as you mentioned. then they pick any verses in the Quran and reading it as well. \n\n-when they bend they say three times "subhana rabeya al-azem". the highness of my God the great\n\n-when they bown down they say three times "subhana rabeya al-ala". the highness of my God the above everything. \n\n-they end the prayers\n\n-then they repeat the same process again.
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How do we know that "answered prayers" are illusions? We simply perform scientific experiments. We ask a group of believers to pray for something and then we watch what happens. What we find, whenever we test the efficacy of prayer scientifically, is that prayer has zero effect: \n\nIt does not matter who prays. \nIt does not matter if we pray to God, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Ra or any other human god. \nIt does not matter what we pray about. \nIf we perform scientific, double-blind tests on prayer, and if the prayers involve something concrete and measurable (for example, healing people with cancer), we know that there is zero effect from prayer. Every single "answered prayer" is nothing more than a coincidence. Both scientific experiments and your everyday observations of the world show this to be the case every single time.\n\nDon't hold your breath on Iraq.
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HOPEFULLY THE PRAY OFTEN ENOUGH TO BETTER THEMSELVES !!! \nBECAUSE THE NEED IT !!!
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Shea are the people who belive in 12 Omams after their prophet. while soni don't. there are many hadiths(speeches) that confirm our prophet guide us to follow them, such as Hadithe Jaber(which he has named all the 12 ones), Hadithe Gadir(there is an aye in Quran about it.), Hadith sagalein, hadithe Nooh's Ship(safineye nooh),....\nthe most surprising point is that all these hadiths are written in Soni books!!!\nthere is even an Aye in our Quran saying"Obey Allah, his prophet & OOLELELAMr" our prophet has said OOlelamr means Ali(pbuh) and his 11 children coming one by one after each other. \nTHEY ARE:\n1-Imam Ali\n2-Imam Hassan\n3-Imam Hossein(may be you have heard Ahsoora about him)\n4-Imam Sajjad\n5-Imam Bager(which his name has come in toorat(the holy book of Jews)\n6-Imam Sadegh\n7-Imam Kazem\n8-Imam Reza(his holy shrine is in mashhad. Iran)\n9-Imam Javad\n10-Imam Hadi\n11-Imam Hassan Askari\n12-Imam Mahdi( which is hidden from our eyes and we the power of God he is still alive, and we believe he will come someday, with Jesus and after a lot of fights with devil forces, they will fill the world with justice, peace& so on.)\nIf I want to explain about Imams I have to write days & nights. so I recommend you that If you are interested in knowing more, you can read books about them and their life that proves how great they were......\n\nI always admire the people who are trying to know about different religions!\nGod bless you!\nGood Luck and Thank you again!
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بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم\nالسلام عليكم\nThe prophet Muhammand (SAW) told us that there are 4 sacred months aside from Ramadhan. Muharram is one of them. It was also a sacred month from pre-Islamic times and the Jews of Medina also celebrated the 10th of Muharram with a day of fasting to celebrate the day that Musa (Moses)(RA) convinced the Pharoh to release the Hebrews from slavery.\n\nMuhammad (SAW) held that the Muslim Ummah also had a strong connection with Musa (the story of Musa and Pharoh is prominent in the Quran) so he also enjoined fasting on the Muslims, but to distinguish their practice, the day before was also made a day of fasting. This fast was obligatory on the Muslim community until the fast of Ramadhan was revealed, then it became optional although highly recommended.\n\nPeace and Blessings,\n\nSalim\n\nPS The idea that we sacrifice for the happiness of Allah is totally wrong. Perhaps there is a linguistic problem here, but in truth Allah needs nothing from us and can neither be happy or sad. We sacrifice in our lives for the SAKE of Allah, meaning that Allah has asked us to do certain things that are part of worship, but the benefit is to our souls, it is better for us. But Allah is so vast that he is neither added to by our worship nor subracted from by our lack thereof. Of course there are deeper meanings to this as well but I will not delve into that here.\n\nS.
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I think what you are referring to is the Ka'ba, which is in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is not a wall, but a cubed structure (originally rectangular). The Muslims pray in this direction 5 times a day, and if they are financially able, make pilgrimage to it once in their life (as an obligation).\n\nYou can see a picture here:\nhttp://www.islam101.com/images/kabah51.JPG
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Islam is a true religion.\ni dnt think there's anything wrong with Arabs.\nMiddle east has smthg goin on. and dey haf to stop fighting among demselves.dey cud come up with smthg more productive.... dey;re smart ppl. in fact, arabs r smart bcuz they invented chemistry ' al-kimiya' \nIslam was actually leading in the past few centuries, so the europe countries learn from dem n succeded. whereas the middle east fall back......
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No, I personnally don't believe in it, nor do I believe in conventional prayer.\n\nI can recite or read a page in a book as many times as you want me too, but that doesn't mean I'm praying. It is only praying when what I say comes from my heart and to do that I must say my prayers in my own words and not recited from another prayer of mine from another time, because that again would just be reciting and not coming from my heart. Keep in mind many of my prayers might sound exactly the same, but they are still fresh words to me from each day I pray.\n\nI hope I didn't offend anybody, but I just wanted to answer this question.
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They are 70,000 people. Following is the hadith mentioning their characteristics in Arabic:\n\nعن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: \n\n" عرضت عليّ الأمم, فرأيت النبيّ ومعه الرّهيط والنبيّ ومعه الرّجل والرّجلان. والنّبيّ وليس معه أحد إذ رفع لي سواد عظيم فظننت أنّهم أمّتي, فقيل لي انظر إلى الأفق الآخر فإذا سواد عظيم فقيل لي: هذه أمّتك, ومعهم سبعون ألفا يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب \n\n" ثمّ نهض فدخل منزله, فخاض النّاس في أولئك الّذين يدخلون الجنّة بغير حساب ولا عذاب, فقال بعضهم: \n\nفلعلّهم الّذين صحبوا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم, \n\nوقال بعضهم: فلعلّهم الّذين ولدوا في الإسلام, فلم يشركوا بالله شيئا وذكروا أشياء فخرج عليهم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال: " ما الّذي تخوضون فيه ؟ " فأخبروه فقال: \n\n(( هم الّذين لا يسترقون, ولا يتطيّرون, وعلى ربّهم يتوكّلون ))\n\nفقام عكّاشة بن محصن فقال: ادع الله أن يجعلني منهم, فقال: أنت منهم, ثم قام رجل آخر فقال: ادع الله أن يجعلني منهم, فقال: سبقك بها عكاشة ).\n\n\nAll the characteristics in the hadith result from having a very strong trust in God:\n1)They don't ask others to make ruqia for them(though it is permitted).\n2)They don't believe in superstitions.\n3)They depend on and trust in God.