ÈÓã Çááå ÇáÑÍãä ÇáÑÍãä ÇáÑÍíã Is your prayer in Good shape 2-83-9 Al Salaam Aleikum, I want to announce the good news, your free book about good prayers is now available, please order your free copy today, come to know if you are doing prayer the proper way, and learn a lot more about what Ahan call for prayer means and says. Come to know what the Tahiyaat (Durood Shareif) means, and where it came from, learn good Duaa too. Check if your prayer is done properly, even if you think your prayer is in good shape. Those who still wish to have the books about Sourah one and 114, they are available now in my group, under Free Books, join us. We spoke a little about the name of Allah of Al Azees: ÇáÚÒíÒ, the Dear One. We all remember in Sourah 12:88 how Yusuf PBUH was called, when he was the second in command to the king of Egypt: Al Azeez, which means: O one who stand on High honorable ground. Always this word is given to someone who is high in position, with relation to people, and my friend, there is no Higher than Allah ever among His creation, or in His KINGDOM, praise to Allah in the Glory of His Holiness. Azeez came few times in the noble book, always indicating great respect, and that is exactly what we owe Allah my friend, nothing less is acceptable, Al Hamdu Lillah. Dear readers, we are still speaking about Ayah 2:83, yes my friend, and let us look at what came in next. Next part in this Ayah says: æÅÐ ÃÎÐäÇ ãíËÇÞ Èäí ÅÓÑÇÆíá áÇ ÊÚÈÏæÇ ÅáÇ Çááå æÈÇáæÇáÏíä ÅÍÓÇäÇ æÐí ÇáÞÑÈì æÇáíÊÇãì æÇáãÓÇßíä æÞæáæÇ ááäÇÓ ÍÓäÇ, æÃÞíãæÇ ÇáÕáÇÉ "We made a covenant with the children of Israel (Jacob), do not worship anyone or anything besides Allah, and be dutiful and extremely good toward your parent, your relatives, the Orphans, and toward those who are in need, and talk to people in the most polite way, also do perform your prayers", Now we see Allah ordering the performance of prayer, this order came to every nation Allah sent a prophet and messengers to. You would say: what are you talking about, Allah sent prophets only to the children of Israel, then he sent Jesus to the Christians, when they used to be called Gentile, which means: Non Jew. Ya Allah how wrong those are who believe in such, which has such lack of information to all extremes. My friend, beloved brothers, wonderful sister please listen, please pay attention for just a little. Allah sent about 24000 prophets and messengers, Allah says in Ayah 35:24: æÅä ãä ÃãÉ ÅáÇ ÎáÇ ÝíåÇ äÐíÑ "Not even the least among the nations in history that did not receive a man from the LORD to warn them about Hell, guide them towards Heaven", Israelis were the least in number and importance through history, they had many men of the LORD, no one can deny, but they were not every nation through history, how? Israelis started from Jacob PBUH, who left and stayed in Egypt with his son Joseph PBUH (Yusuf), then Israelis continued living their for many hundreds of years, four hundred and thirty of those years they spent in slavery, then they came to Palestine, lived there for a short time, after which they were taken slaves to Babylon, then slaves under Persia, till Cyrus the king of Persia returned them to Palestine, they stayed a very short time slaves under Rome, before Christian Rome kicked them out for the last 2000 years, they came back little by little since 1917, announced a state over the Palestinian blood 1948. Yes, Israelis were always just one small nation, yet not one nation was left without Heavenly teaching from a fair LORD. Every nation had this order: do perform prayers, and believe me prayer is one of the most important among the good you and I can do, why? Dearest; please listen, prayer is done for your sake not His, the first thing we will be questioned about is prayer, trust me. In prayer we are actually performing all five pillars of Islam, we make the Shahadah (Testimony of Only One LORD) many, many times, only by reading Al Fateha we mention the Shahadah and the names of Allah 14 times, multiply by four Rakaas Al Fateha repeated, 14 * 4 == 56 times Allah is mentioned in each prayer, not to mention other Sourahs we recite, and this is done at least 17 Rakaa every day at least, 952 times you say Shahdah of there is only One LORD just reciting Al Fateha five prayers every day, imagine that. What other nation mention what it worships as we do, looks like some of us are dedicated to His memory, so indulged in His name, praise to Allah in His Glory forever and ever. During prayer you are doing prayer itself, which is the second in the Pillars as you see, in prayer you are fasting, no drinking or eating of any kind, in prayer you are making Zakah, because every good word you utter you receive a reward for, and Muhammad PBUH said: every good word is a Sadakah (Good Deed done), and in prayer my friend you put your face toward Mekka, as if you are performing Pilgrimage five times at least per day, yet no expense or trouble of any kind. Do you see now how the five Pillars applicable just in one great act? In my book: The Good Guide for Good prayer, I show you wonderful things about prayers, please read it if you don't mind, its free of charge, order now, and make better prayer. What the Israelis have done to prayer, we just saw how Allah ordered them to do prayer? First thing they changed the five times into two only per day, one time in the early Morning, and one time in the Evening except on the Sabbath (Saturday) they pray little more after Noon time. No more they pray five times as their book shows, an example of such came from Daniel when he used to pray three times a Day (Means every day), also in Psalms that says: in the Morning, at Noon, and at night you hear my cries O LORD. In the New Testament, Jesus according to Mark went Early morning to pray before Sunrise, in the book of Acts, when it was Noon, Peter went to the roof of his house to pray, when Noon time came. Tens of examples how they were ordered to pray five times, but when Israelis ever obeyed the LORD in their lifetime. Israelis never fulfilled any of the orders Allah gave them in this Ayah, or any other through the Noble Qur'aan, or even in what they claim to be the Torah of Moses. How about Hindu, Hindu do pray five times a day, they call their prayer by Arty, differ from us in the night prayer, which they pushed to after Sunrise. How about Christians? Christians pray in a strange way, they sit, close their eyes, some of them put their hands like Hindu do during worship, and utter words that says nothing: like father give us our daily bread, well, the LORD gives the birds their daily, how about us who He put above? What Christians call prayer is just an asking of more material things in this life, they never ask to be in Heaven, they think they got it made. Since Christians prayer has no kneeling and bowing as Jesus and the Disciples did, then their worship is such a waste of time. They keep saying they want to be Christ like, then why they do not pray like he did, the Muslims way, even if they do not wish to convert to Islam? Yes, Israelis were ordered to pray, they too do not kneel and bow like Abraham, David, Elijah, Zechariah, and Jesus Christ PBU all of them. Israelis pray as Christians do, also something picked up from Hinduism, they sit on chairs, as if Jesus sat on chairs during his life, for those who wish to be Christ like? Israelis deviated all of their lives from following the orders of the LORD, that is why He made them live the worst life any nation could ever suffer, no other nation was humiliated by the LORD like the Israelis ever, and today 80% of the Israelis are Atheists, and do not believe there is a LORD, they were the first to encourage Darwinism, evolution, Gays, Boyfriend/Girlfriend that spoiled our children, Israelis were able to do a lot to corrupt, just to offend the LORD all of their lives. Israelis are our Cosines from our uncle Isaac PBUH, but they went against Allah with all of their hearts, they killed tens of prophets, and many of those who say: there is no LORD except Allah, or Elloheim. Jesus as well as Moses said: Shamaa Yesrael (here this O Israelis"), Adoni (the LORD) Ellohaino (who is Allah), Adoni (the LORD) Ahad (is one), Shahadah we Muslims apply. ÑÈí ÒÏäí ÚáãÇ æÇáÍÞäí ÈÇáÕÇáÍíä æÇáÍãÏ ááå ÑÈ ÇáÚÇáãíä
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