| " Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Da'ud, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Abu Hatim, Ibn Jarir | 中国语文 - Ma Jian : 你们的主说：你们要祈祷我，我就应答你们；不肯崇拜我的人，他们将卑贱地入火狱。 Then he should be tired of it and give up praying |
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| There is none else in this Universe, who may have any power to hear the prayers and to answer them or reject them | And the real motive of prayer for man is the internal feeling that the natural means and resources of the material world are not enough to remove any of his troubles and to fulfil any of his needs, or are not proving to be enough, Therefore, it is inevitable that he should turn to a being who is possessor of supernatural powers and authority |
After having known this truth about the prayer, it remains no longer difficult for man to understand that the one who invokes another than Allah for help, commits shirk absolutely and purely and clearly, for he believes those attributes to be belonging to the other being, which only belong to Allah.
24| According to Hadrat Anas, the Holy Prophet said | According to Hadrat Nu'man bin Bashir, the Holy Prophet said: The prayer is the very essence of worship |
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| And the one who is not in reality the possessor, will not be able to have any share whatever in the powers only because man has believed it to be possessing the powers Now, the fact of the matter is that the Being Who is all-Powerful, all-Hearing, All-Seeing, and Who is actually controlling the whole Universe is only Allah, and He alone is Possessor of alI powers and authority | We get a full explanation of these two themes in the Sayings of the Holy Prophet |
The following Traditions throw light on the first theme: Hadrat Salman Farsi relates that the Holy Prophet said: 'Nothing can avert destiny but the prayer.
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