- Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H&HF): Whenever one of you is needy and brings that to other people, he will not be satisfied. and Whenever someone is needy and brings that to Lord, he shall give him what he wants. sooner or later.
- Imam Sadiq (As.): Whenever you had tenderness in your heart, Pray. because your heart doesn't get tender unless it's pure.
- I told to Imam Baqir (A.S): “What is the meaning of “truly, Ibrahim was awwah and patient”? He replied: “Awwah means (the one who is) praying (to) and wailing (for God) a lot.””
- “Two people, who have acted alike, enter the heaven, but one of them sees the other one in a higher place. Then, he says: O’ Lord! How come has he a superior place in comparison to me while we acted alike? God the Almighty replies: “because he asked Me (whatever he needed) and you did not do that”.
- “The most knowledgeable person to God is the one who asks more from Him”
- “Whoever prays a lot, the angels say: This voice is familiar (to us) and this is the supplication which is accepted and this is the need which is provided”
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The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his Household):
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وَ لَوْ عَرَفْتُمُ اللَّهَ حَقَّ مَعْرِفَتِهِ لَزَالَتِ الْجِبَالُ بِدُعَائِكُم
If you knew god the way you should’ve known, Mountains definitely will be moved by your supplications. - Crying out of fear of God is the key to his mercy, it’s a sign for his acceptance and it’s a door to answering [supplications]
- Pray to God and believe in his answeres. But understand that God won't accept prays from an unwitting oblivious heart.
What do great western philosophers say about praying?
What do great western philosophers say about praying?
praying in general is not only discussed in islamic religion but in other religions as well. as we see in the history of philosophy and civilazation we can see that many scholars were talking about the necessity of praying to gods and why we do it?
we have this discussion in aristotle work B.c and even after that lots of christan philosophers like martin luther, thomas aquinas and others talked about praying and the way we should consider it in our every day life.
here are some of the quotes you can see:
Antoine Arnauld - French Philsopher in 16th century
that is sometime part of god's providential plan that the recipient freely cooperate and thus perform the act in question. meritorious acts of will include, among others, the decision to pray, to seek forgiveness for past sins, and to perform a good action for the love of god.
Rene Descartes - French Philosopher of 15th century
when we are told to pray to god that is not so that we should inform him of our needs, or that we should try to get him to change anything in the order established from all eternity by his providence. but simply to obtain whatever he has from all eternity, willed to be obtained by our prayers.
Peter Wagner - American Theologian of 20th century
all good prayers can be seen as a step in the right direction. but some of those steps maybe smallers than they need to be.
Thomas Aquinas - Italian Philosopher of 12th century
it is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to god, requires that god shall lower himslef to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what god wills, but only to persuade god to will the man in us wills.
Anslem of Canterbury - Italian Benedictine monk of 11th century
god does not delay to hear our prayers because he has not mind to give. but that, by enlarging our desires, he may give us the more largely.