The Antichrist in Muhammad: Praying Never to Know Jesus as Lord
How do you preach the way of the Lord Jesus to a Muslim who, a minimum of seventeen times a day, prays not to know the way of the Lord Jesus?
PrintCORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Muslims is the requirement that they pray five times a day to Allah. The times for prayer are tied to the sun's positions during the day, and are generally performed near dawn (fajir), shortly after midday (zuhr), in the afternoon ('asr), just following sunset (maghrib), and at nightfall ('isha').
This obligation, one of the "Five Pillars" or Sunni Islam and one of the "Ten Pillars" of Twelver Shi'i Islam, is called salat (singular salah). It constitutes the formal worship ritual in Islam. The informal prayer of a Muslim is called dua'a, and is not similarly regimented.
Each salah consists of a highly regimentalized prayer form composed of the repetition of units called raka'at (singular, rak'ah) which are a combination of postures and actions (standing, bowing, prostrating, and sitting), and prayers in Arabic. The prayer is preceded by obligatory highly-ritualized washing or ablutions, called wudu.
The minimal obligatory (fard) number of repetitions of the rak'ah for each of the five salah periods varies from two to four depending upon the time of the particular salah, so that ordinarily a minimum of seventeen fard or required raka'at are performed during a day. Other obligatory raka'at may be added depending on certain circumstances, including the season, with varying levels of obligatoriness (fard kifayah, sunnah kifayah, wajib). More raka'at are often performed voluntarily in imitation of Muhammad (sunnah mu'akkadah) or as an act of supererogation (nafl).
Although the combination of actions of words and even the number of salat are not provided for in the Qur'an (being found in the Sunnah and based upon the practices of Muhammad), they are certainly institutionalized as part of Islam.
For the purposes of this article, the details of the prayer regime are not as important as the central characteristic of each rak'ah. As part of each rak'ah, the Muslim prays the first, short chapter of the Qur'an, the al-Fatiha. It is known as the "Mother of the Book" (Umm ul-Kitab), "Mother of the Qur'an" (Umm ul-Qur'an), and "the Foundation" (al-Asas) because of its central role in Islam:
Bi-smi-llahi -r-raḥmani -r-raḥim
Al-hamdu -li-llahi rabbi -l-'alamin
Ar-raḥmani -r-raḥim
Maliki yawmi -d-din
'Iyyaka na'budu wa-'iyyaka nasta'in
Ihdina -ṣ-ṣiraṭa -l-mustaqim
Sirata -l-ladina 'an'amta 'alayhim gayri-l-magdubi 'alayhim wa-la -d-dallin.
In the name of God, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
All praise and thanks is for to God, [The] Creator, Owner, Sustainer of the Worlds.
The Entirely Merciful, The Especially Merciful.
Owner of the Day of Recompense.
You alone do we worship and You alone we seek for help.
Guide us to the Straight Path.
The path of those whom Your blessings are upon, Not of those who You have cursed nor of those who have gone astray.
To the uninitiated Christian, the al-Fatiha seems innocuous, even praiseworthy. How many Christians do not pray in the name of God, give praise to God, invoke his mercy, recognize Him as judge, and seek for help to stay on the right path and avoid evil? Does this not seem something even a Christian could join?
To think that a Christian could pray the al-Fatiha is a huge mistake, however. There are certain precise meanings given to the terms "those You have cursed" ('alayhim gayri-l-magdubi), and "those who have gone astray" ('alayhim wa-la -d-dallin) with which those unfamiliar with Islam would be completely oblivious. The former refers to the Jews, and the latter to the Christians. So, for example, do the classic Sunni Qur'anic exegetical texts Tafsir al-Jalalayn and the Tafsir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas interpret it.
Any reasonably-informed Muslim will know that he prays, at least seventeen times a day, that he never become a Jew or a Christian. He indoctrinates himself multiple times a day that Jews are cursed or the recipients of God's anger, and that Christians have "gone astray" by belief in the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of God in Jesus, and are therefore not to be followed.
The upshot is that a minimum of seventeen times a day, and oftentimes more, a Muslim will be praying that he will never know the Lord Jesus, "the Way, the Truth, of the Life," who is the only way to the Father. (John 14:6). As a result of the errant guidance of his or her supposed prophet, the ...
This obligation, one of the "Five Pillars" or Sunni Islam and one of the "Ten Pillars" of Twelver Shi'i Islam, is called salat (singular salah). It constitutes the formal worship ritual in Islam. The informal prayer of a Muslim is called dua'a, and is not similarly regimented.
Each salah consists of a highly regimentalized prayer form composed of the repetition of units called raka'at (singular, rak'ah) which are a combination of postures and actions (standing, bowing, prostrating, and sitting), and prayers in Arabic. The prayer is preceded by obligatory highly-ritualized washing or ablutions, called wudu.
The minimal obligatory (fard) number of repetitions of the rak'ah for each of the five salah periods varies from two to four depending upon the time of the particular salah, so that ordinarily a minimum of seventeen fard or required raka'at are performed during a day. Other obligatory raka'at may be added depending on certain circumstances, including the season, with varying levels of obligatoriness (fard kifayah, sunnah kifayah, wajib). More raka'at are often performed voluntarily in imitation of Muhammad (sunnah mu'akkadah) or as an act of supererogation (nafl).
Although the combination of actions of words and even the number of salat are not provided for in the Qur'an (being found in the Sunnah and based upon the practices of Muhammad), they are certainly institutionalized as part of Islam.
For the purposes of this article, the details of the prayer regime are not as important as the central characteristic of each rak'ah. As part of each rak'ah, the Muslim prays the first, short chapter of the Qur'an, the al-Fatiha. It is known as the "Mother of the Book" (Umm ul-Kitab), "Mother of the Qur'an" (Umm ul-Qur'an), and "the Foundation" (al-Asas) because of its central role in Islam:
Bi-smi-llahi -r-raḥmani -r-raḥim
Al-hamdu -li-llahi rabbi -l-'alamin
Ar-raḥmani -r-raḥim
Maliki yawmi -d-din
'Iyyaka na'budu wa-'iyyaka nasta'in
Ihdina -ṣ-ṣiraṭa -l-mustaqim
Sirata -l-ladina 'an'amta 'alayhim gayri-l-magdubi 'alayhim wa-la -d-dallin.
In the name of God, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
All praise and thanks is for to God, [The] Creator, Owner, Sustainer of the Worlds.
The Entirely Merciful, The Especially Merciful.
Owner of the Day of Recompense.
You alone do we worship and You alone we seek for help.
Guide us to the Straight Path.
The path of those whom Your blessings are upon, Not of those who You have cursed nor of those who have gone astray.
To the uninitiated Christian, the al-Fatiha seems innocuous, even praiseworthy. How many Christians do not pray in the name of God, give praise to God, invoke his mercy, recognize Him as judge, and seek for help to stay on the right path and avoid evil? Does this not seem something even a Christian could join?
To think that a Christian could pray the al-Fatiha is a huge mistake, however. There are certain precise meanings given to the terms "those You have cursed" ('alayhim gayri-l-magdubi), and "those who have gone astray" ('alayhim wa-la -d-dallin) with which those unfamiliar with Islam would be completely oblivious. The former refers to the Jews, and the latter to the Christians. So, for example, do the classic Sunni Qur'anic exegetical texts Tafsir al-Jalalayn and the Tafsir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas interpret it.
Any reasonably-informed Muslim will know that he prays, at least seventeen times a day, that he never become a Jew or a Christian. He indoctrinates himself multiple times a day that Jews are cursed or the recipients of God's anger, and that Christians have "gone astray" by belief in the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of God in Jesus, and are therefore not to be followed.
The upshot is that a minimum of seventeen times a day, and oftentimes more, a Muslim will be praying that he will never know the Lord Jesus, "the Way, the Truth, of the Life," who is the only way to the Father. (John 14:6). As a result of the errant guidance of his or her supposed prophet, the ...
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Andrew M. Greenwell Esp., As always a Wonderful, thoughtful and intriguing article on our Muslim brothers and sisters. By self-indoctrination and the help of their Nanny State government leaders telling them what to do and how to do it, their poor souls and the very Life they live is lacking the Freedom of full Self independent reasonings of their own. Hence, they are Muslim slaves that are slaves to Islam. Muslims that are slaves to their government. Muslim slaves to a man made Egotistical religion. They do not know what it is to live in Freedom. How utterly Sad! And i am not far off from describing a Secular west as well!
Your prayer is both beautiful and appropriate. i will be honored to join in a communion of prayer on Friday nights. i am going to add our Secularists brothers and sisters as well, and my normal: I pray for the Conversion of sinners, the good my family, and the good my own soul. Prayerful Blessings....
@bob: What, what, Bob! The essence of the Trinity--that there are three persons in one God--is communion. The eternal communication between the three persons is called circumincession (in Latin) or perichoresis (in Greek). Is God the Son no longer to commune with the Godhead because he has taken on human nature? Is is human nature, joined to the Word, not to enjoy that communion? Isn't prayer a form of communion? Your comment makes no sense unless you believe in a unitarian God, a lonely God, a God without circumincession or perichoresis (like Islam), so that there is only one person in God, and one alone, and that one so very lonely God became man and therefore is left, both in eternity and in time, with no one to commune with. That's one reason (of many) that the anti-Trinitarian vision of God must be false.
if jesus is our lord then who dd jesus pray to ? also islam teaches that jesus was an example of how man should be and very important prothit same as mohamid. They dislike western use of debt based money to invade non nata countries. The distrust of jews is unclear but most jews in israil protest the treatments of palistine's people. Some money men may be pretending to be jewish. The money changers are behiind disinformation. So called catholic's have ruined the uk public's debt into beyond and then left to run at european level. The world is messed up.
A religion of hate with a prayer of hate and discrimation founded by a genocidal and morally bankrupt prophet ...ISLAM! Because they are disgruntled that God chose Issac over Ismail, they pray to never follow the Son of God who has come to reconcile the whole world to God, irrespective of the past and all transgressions. They deceive the innocent and use devilish means to advance a religion of hate to rival a religion of love, peace, and holiness. Now that Moslems are learning the truth about hardened Ishmailites, they should abandon them and come to Christ, the Risen Lord and Savior of Mankind. Moslems, please deliver yourselves from pitch darkness and come into the light of Jesus Christ.
I thank God for what we are learning from this website!
Sacredly Obey+ Like Christ Towards The Divine Father ...
Sons of Ishmael will obey and end believing false "prophets" :
http://bible.cc/genesis/17-20.htm
http://bible.cc/genesis/17-21.htm
http://bible.cc/john/8-56.htm
Thank you for your brilliant series on Islam and its founder.
There is an organisation - Global Media Outreach - which, while not Catholic, is reaching many through the media. Long before I returned to the Faith, I joined GMO's general online missionaries, and then more recently, the Islamic outreach group as a result of your articles.
So far I have been able to send Gospel messages to more than 50 muslims across the muslim world. Your articles have helped me tremendously to understand their mindset, and, the cherry on top - the prayer for muslims. Many, many thanks! Barbara
Fantastic article with a beautiful ending!Thanks andrew.May the light of our Lord Christ Jesus fill the hearts of all muslims with LOVE and grace, so that they embrace the TRUE GOD and reject islam for ever and ever. Amen!
Yes! Every Friday Night those who gather in our house will add this to our prayers! May we one day live in a world where we all recognize each other as one family, beloved Children of God, brothers and sisters in Christ. Let it start with me.
I have never known a Muslim to employ a Christian within a meaningful capacity within the UK.
Yet when I was in the Forces, which I left due to issues of faith, I saw many Muslims empolyed in the Persian Gulf states under the auspices of the UK forces.
I had been stopped carrying the Bible there, and Yet they can carry the Koran to the UK.
Can you tell me why one is allowed control and the other is not, or do we have to have an Imam confer what Christians can do.
I love Jesus and the faith, I do not want the SS Imam's taking over.
To say that muslims will never know Jesus as Lord is definitely showing a lack of faith on the Church's part. With all the miracles that Christ performed while here on earth, you're basically saying that Jesus is incapable of performing "some" miracles, and calling Him a liar. You seem to forget the scripture that says, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me". You need to have a little more faith, and maybe pray a little harder? Just my opinion, my two cents worth.