Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
To My Fellow Muslims with Love: Revealing Real Muhammad and Islam 4H - Second Pillar of Islam: How Muhammad Treated Prayers?
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Did Muhammad fear Allah and respect Prayers?
In articles 4A-G in this series, we have studied the various types of prayers in Islam and how they benefited our prophet. Most of Muhammad clever followers understood the motives behind his establishment of the prayers. So they preferred to go Jihad, which brought them wealth and women, than bearing the burden of praying and spending most of their time with Muhammad in his mosque-cum-military camp. Prayers were the traps that Muhammad used to bribe, recruit, and train his follower for Jihad, and finally send them to Jihad expeditions against the non-Muslim tribes. That was his ultimate goal. When a few of his followers really took the prayers as the way of salvation, Muhammad was disturbed by their attitude, and spoke to them openly to advised that they should not be too religious and spend too much time on praying.
Write comment (37 Comments)To My Fellow Muslims with Love: Revealing Real Muhammad and Islam 4G - Second Pillar of Islam: Importance and Motive Behind 'Khutba' of Friday Prayer
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In my last article on Friday congregational prayer in this series, we have noticed Muhammad’s struggle to maintain his influence and power over all of his followers. To achieve that he initially forced his followers to say all the five daily prayers at his mosque under his imam-ship. But as he took up arms to engage in jihad wars for subjugate the kafir communities of Arabia, the Muslim community spread far and wide. Under these circumstances, forcing all of his followers, especially those living far away from his house in Medina, to come to his mosque for every prayer became impossible. He, therefore, established the once-in-a-week compulsory Friday prayer, the Jumaa, to be performed in congregation at his mosque.
In continuation on the same topic, let us study the norms Muhammad set for Friday prayers with the sanctification of Allah, and the essence of Muhammad’s khutba sermon. We will also investigate how Muhammad used the weekly Friday prayer occasion to motivate his followers to wage Jihad attacks on non-Muslims in the name of Islam.
Write comment (20 Comments)To My Fellow Muslims with Love: Revealing Real Muhammad and Islam 4F - Second Pillar of Islam: Importance of Congregational Prayer and Invention of Friday Prayer
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In order to keep his hold over his followers, Muhammad initially forced them to say each and every prayer at his mosque under his own Imam-ship, but when that didn't work as his community spread farther and farther from Medina, he invented the once-in-a-week Friday Congregational Prayer, the Jumaa, in order to keep his sway over all of his followers.
Write comment (36 Comments)To My Fellow Muslims with Love: Revealing Real Muhammad and Islam 4E - Second Pillar of Islam: Funeral Prayer and Muhammad’s Greed
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Readers may be bored that the chapter on prayers is getting too long. I’m trying my best to keep the discussion as short as possible. Prayers are the most ruinous requirement of Islam for us Muslims. There are more than 30 different kinds of prayers that were designed by Muhammad for his own benefit and advantage. So, I want to cover it as much as possible in the shortest span.
Prophet Muhammad collected a 1/40th portion of obligatory Zakat, that he imposed on Muslim, to swell his coffer. He collected it even after a Muslim’s death as a condition to lead their funeral prayer. He had received the pending Zakat for the deceased from their kin or friends. This clearly shows: How fond of wealth and greedy Muhammad was!
Write comment (18 Comments)To My Fellow Muslims with Love: Revealing Real Muhammad and Islam 4D -- Prayer, The Second Pillar of Islam
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How the Tahajjudh (midnight) prayer---compulsory in Muhammad's time, not today---was designed to keep Muslims awake through the whole night for ensuring the safety of Muhammad!
TAHAJJUDH—THE MIDNIGHT PRAYER
Tahajjud prayer (midnight prayer) was imposed on us Muslims during the time of Muhammad for some important reasons. There is no fixed time to offer this mid-night prayer. This prayer can be said at any time at our home or in mosque from midnight until pre-dawn Fajr prayer.
What was the need of this prayer?
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