(August 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 9, 2019 at 5:31 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: As a Muslim, praying to Allah worked for me many times, and I can't forget how certain prayers got answered exactly for me, it's a kind of response that I would never replace for a belief like the one you are suggesting in the OP.
Well, there is something we should know: Allah -God- is a creator. He is not my maid or servant, or Jinni that I summon to answer my wishes. Thinking about God like that is disastrous, We call him and he responds if he wanted
We need him; not the opposite. When we pray, he listens and answers the way he sees fit, or not answer at all; but he listens. I don't know if he is going to accept my prayers or not; I also don't know if he is going to accept somebody else's.
But prayer do work. Lots of Muslims -and even Christians and Jews who prayed to God- can tell you in full honesty that prayer works. That's why the world is so full of theists
When you pray for something to happen and it does, how do you know it wouldn't have happened had you not prayed for it?
Boru
The subject of the prayer lets me know. Some matters look impossible to happen but after praying for them to happen specifically; they come to be. Like a needle in a pile of grass.
For example, praying to be great at a work you do -that you aren't at all skilled at-, but suddenly after praying you find that the subject of the prayer came to be.
