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Hi falomar,
Let us take an example of a student. He goes to school 6 days a week. If someone ask him why he go to school, there are two possible replies from him.
1) I go to school because my parents want me to go and or the teacher in school also want me to come. If i dont go they will punish me. It is mandatory for me to go school.
2) I go to school becuase my parents want me to become a doctor so that i can serve the humanity. So i can see that i go school for my own benefit and not for teacher's benefit.
Thus you can see even if it is cumpolsory for him to go to school it does not mean that he is unwillingly going out of compulsion but due to the fact he know what he is or will gain from it. Yes, there are many students who just go to school because they have to attain certain %age of attendence to avoid teacher's punishment and also to make themselve qualify for appearing in exams.
Now after few years, if the rent of tansportation increases or the traffic on the road increase, it does not mean that a wise student will stop going to school or cut short his school day from 6 to 3 days a week. Specially if he is aware of the second answer he will continue to go school happily no matter what obstacles comes. He will get up early daily in the morning, he will revise his subjects and he will complete his homework on time. He will try to go school on rainy day as well as he dont want to miss a class. He want to be a doctor at the end.
Similarly, if we know what is the actual reason we are praying for, and how it is benefiting us, we will not be affected by the pace of life.
We pray five times a day:
1) Fajr - Early Morning
2) Thuhr - Noon Day
3) Asr - After Noon
4) Maghrib - Sun Set
5) Ishaa - Night
If you are asking the method of prayer, please check the forum. There is lot of info. But if your question is how we manage to pray five times and work at the same time than the answer is:
Praying in morning (1), sun set (3) and night (5) is not a problem for a normal office hour working person. We are most probably at home at these times. If we dont have mosque nearby we can pray it in our room or even on our way to home. Normally we have to just manage (2) and (3) prayer in our office time. Many office allow us to pray during office hours. It just need a prayer mat and some clean office corner. It will just need about 10 minutes to finish your obligatory prayers. If your office is strict in timings etc you may compensate them by working half hour extra. If you cant pray in office for some genuine reason, then you complete it at home as "missed prayers".
It hardly takes 1 hour approx. for all the prayers in a day. Can't we takeout 1 hour for our prayer out of 24 hours in a day? Apart from spritual and social benefits, we have lot of medical benefits in prayers, provided we perform them as per the method Allah has prescribed. Please refer to following attachements for details.
Medical Benefits of Ablution (Wudu)
Medical Benefits of Prayers
Ablution in Christianity
The way Muslim worship Allah with Ablution, bowing, kneeling, prostration and fasting is strange to Non-Muslims, but not to all Prophets.
While the ablution (washing of face, arms, feet and moistening of the hair) prior to worship is abandoned by modern Christians, it is still required by Muslims and previous Prophets, as seen in the following passage of the Bible:
And the Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat; when they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses" [Exodus 40: 31-32]
Muslim worship by bowing, kneeling, prostration and without shoes as done by previous Prophets:
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"O come, let us worship and bow down: lets kneel before the Lord our maker." - [Psalm 95:6]
"And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship…." – [Joshua 5:14]
"And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees." – [I Kings 18:42]
"……. And they [Moses and Aaron] fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared upon them." – [Numbers 20:6]
"And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying…." – [Genesis 17:3]
"And he (God) said (to Moses), Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" – [Exodus 3:5 and Acts 7:33]
Muslim women perform their prayers with their head covered as seen in following passage.
"But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a women to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered…..Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?"
Also, one christian has drawn following painting of Jesus showing him praying to God. Basically he tried to visualize this verse:
"And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship…." – [Joshua 5:14][/I]
However, this vizualization is not correct. Jesus bowed to God in the same way muslim bow by putting their face on ground in humbleness. If you look at the picture you can see Jesus did not fell on his face but rather on his hands.
We love Allah - Our creator, because we know (or at least try to know) what all favours he has done to us. We pray to him and praise him for his kindness and mercy which he has showered upon us. We love Allah because we know he is sustainer and provides us with all our needs. We love Allah because he will enter the believers into paradise with his mercy and justice, saving them from the hell.
Best Regards