Praying 5 times a day

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Praying 5 times a day
OP - September 26, 2010, 04:17 PM

How hard is that? If I were muslim, I can't imagine how i would fulfill these obligations.

Getting up so early to perform a prayer, then making a pause during job for midday prayer...

No offence to anyone, but couldn't people use their time for something more productive?
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Re: Praying 5 times a day
Reply #1 - September 26, 2010, 04:26 PM

and who are you to question Allah?
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Reply #2 - September 27, 2010, 09:30 PM

If you truly believed, your life would revolve around Islam, not vice versa.

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Re: Praying 5 times a day
Reply #3 - October 02, 2010, 03:45 AM

Praying was so hard! I really hated it. That's why I rarely prayed. I'd pray only when I wanted something from god, like I'd pray the days before my exam results coming out. Not before the exams though, because I needed all the time to revise dammit, not to waste my precious time praying! I'd try to pray more often during Ramadan too, because I felt guilty fasting without praying. Rarely managed to get the full 5 prayers a day though, because I'm such a huge procrastinator.

I sometimes got stuck having to pray with other people, when I was at school and such, and I'd observe the way people prayed and often wondered to myself how could they seem so serene and very "into" the prayer, because I could never concentrate! I thought it was just me, that there must be something wrong with me, is it shaitan always messing with me because I don't have enough faith?? Now I know better. Those people must be pretending to stay focus when their minds wander just as much as mine did!

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Re: Praying 5 times a day
Reply #4 - October 03, 2010, 09:12 PM

I remember when I first converted, I would leave in the middle of class to pray. My professor HATED it, to say the least. He knew the reason, but he was anti-Islam. It drove my parents crazy too.

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