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How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
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How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:26 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:26 pm by WinterHold.)
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:32 pm
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:38 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Wash your hands and pray twice a day then, yes?

(he posted this because he's a masochist)
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:39 pm
I post here because I have no where else to go.

1 thing I know: athiests might have lots of trolls, but they rejected the lies of the religious institution, so that's a point in their score in my radar.

Another thing: I was asked by an athiest -Rhythm- to post how I pray, so...I posted.
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December 16, 2019 at 6:40 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and now that I've heard it, I've decided not to pray to either of your shit gods any number of times a day.

Gratz, I chose, you cretin.
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:41 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:44 pm by WinterHold.)
(December 16, 2019 at 6:38 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Wash your hands and pray twice a day then, yes?

(he posted this because he's a masochist)

3 times; not 2. Pray in them as much as you like, but make sure to finish the day with 3 prayers at least.
(December 16, 2019 at 6:40 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: -and now that I've heard it, I've decided not to pray to either of your shit gods any number of times a day.

Gratz, I chose, you cretin.

As you like, there is no compulsion in Islam.
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:45 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:46 pm by R00tKiT.)
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:50 pm
(December 16, 2019 at 6:45 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:
(December 16, 2019 at 6:26 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: In this topic, I want to put my understanding for prayers, how to do them and what made me conclude that this is the way to do it.
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1- My personal understanding:

Prayer is a way of direct connection with God in Islam.
God never needs it; but we do, releasing negative emotions and providing somebody to talk to.


How to pray:


A-Perform ablution:



B-Rise (stand) as Sura 5 Verse 6 said.

C-recite verses from the Quran, and call God with anything you want.

D- Bow, since bowing is also mentioned in another verse:



E-prostrate as Sura 22 verse 77 said, and also like Sura 4 verse 102 said here:




F-Repeat

Case closed. All the above is in the Quran.
You should also pay attention to the 3 long times of the day and night which prayers must take place in (they are also in the Quran):
1-Dawn to noon (Fajr Prayer)


2-Noon to night ( Doher Prayer)


3-Night to Dawn (Eshaa Prayer) -Sura 11, verse 114 which I mentioned-.

Cycle repeats.

The first verse refers to ablution, which is not what the title of the thread implies. The verse in Sura 4 is prayer as done in war time, not on a day to day basis.

No scholar in the world nor Sunni nor shia instructs three prayers a day, you are completely alone in your understanding.

Let's suppose you're right about the number of prayers , what are the steps to follow in one prayer, what body movements do we do specifically to call them prayer according to the Qur'an?

No. Your Hadith told you it's just in war time; the special condition that Muslims have the right to carry arms during the prayer, that's what the verse said.

I don't care about the scholars of the Sunni/Shiite church; read what my religion tag says.

About body moves, join a dance course.
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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:52 pm
Guys, guys - there has GOT to be a site somewhere in the vastness of the internet for Muslims to hash these things out.  Not saying that you've got no right to be here, but come on - do you really think an atheist message board is the place to have a slugfest over the finer points of Islamic doctrine?

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RE: How to pray based on the Quran alone: prayer in Islam as I understand it
December 16, 2019 at 6:55 pm (This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:56 pm by R00tKiT.)
(December 16, 2019 at 6:50 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: About body moves, join a dance course.

That's what I was looking for, thanks for the confession and the groundbreaking insight. 

You actually pray by dancing.   Hehe

(To non Muslims reading the topic, he admitted explicitely that he doesn't know how to move during prayer because it's nowhere mentioned in the Qur'an, and thus his claim in the title evaporates into thin air)
(December 16, 2019 at 6:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Guys, guys - there has GOT to be a site somewhere in the vastness of the internet for Muslims to hash these things out.  Not saying that you've got no right to be here, but come on - do you really think an atheist message board is the place to have a slugfest over the finer points of Islamic doctrine?

Boru

This is no fine point pal, this is what 2 damn billion Muslims do five times a day, and he doesn't agree with them.

He prays by dancing actually. Hehe
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