Forced Prayer

[Arkilogue]

Others have already better explained his options at such an age, I am offering something he can constructively do with his time and use to create dialog/space with/between the believers around him.

Simple gratitude and saying "thank you" is biologically beneficial and not addressed to any conception of deity, and if one exists, there is no way it could not reach such a being.

Islamic prayer is anywhere from 10 or 15 minutes to an hour, 5 times a day. That's a lot of time.

He said he's trying to avoid prayer since it's being forced on him. Suggesting another form of hokey religion as a replacement is probably offensive to someone who is going through this kind of crap at home. But go ahead and attempt to push your idea of religion on him if it makes you feel better. It doesn't matter how it makes him feel.

I don't always dislike believers, but I am starting to really dislike you.

I am not telling him what to believe, I am telling him what he can do with the time and ritual his parents are forcing him to participate in, in a language they would understand so that he can put their mind at ease and get them off his back.

If you are forced to kneel and touch your forehead to the ground, you can either repeat in your mind "f-you Islam, f-you Islam, f-you Islam." Or you can spend your time being grateful for, among many other things, the space of the atom's that compose your body and the trillions of stars that had to die to make them. Thus you are not some random burp of existence by a capricious God but a summation of universal order that has accumulated over billions of years.

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I don't always dislike believers, but I am starting to really dislike you.

As you wish...