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Prayer Is A Quencher

It is my ardent desire to find out what we can discover in prayer. That is why I am posting articles in this regard. It is not an easy task to find out what is the ‘key’ to open the floodgate in a prayer. We will find something in prayer. It is only a matter of time.It is definitely that ‘something’ we did not experience in life is behind the veil of our prayer. In my preceding post I have given readers the first step in approaching prayer.

Readers may find that my posts are not on a consistent basis. I feel guilty at times. To tell you the truth, it is not an easy task writing about something which I have not gone through. I just want to unlock the key in a successful prayer. There is something there in prayer – a gift from Allah swt- for those who enters prayer to unlock and take it.

But prayer is a ritual, monotonous exercise for the majority. It is because many of us who enters prayer are in a lazy mindset about prayers. It gives nothing. It is not entertaining like watching a movie or playing a game in the internet. It is not like getting affiliated with your friends. It is not like spending time with your relatives. It is not like eating or sleeping. It is not like watching a television show. So if it does not give back anything ‘tangible’ to us then it is not needed. If it is not needed then the very act of prayer becomes a burden. You cannot see anything in prayer. It is boring!


In our daily lives we ask many things many times. If the hand phone bill shows an erroneous bill the next instance we call the billings department to resolve. If there is a serious traffic jam in one of the expressway you seek to find out what had happened. We want to seek out the truth.

I have the occasion to meet one of the real estate investor and posed him a question on how he managed to become a successful businessman. He said ‘ to make every stone un-turn’. It is a simple proverb but meaningful one. To know everything in what you are doing. Know your stuff.

That is for business. For our daily prayer I think the inquisition to know about the subject is that we do not know the seriousness of Allah swt not accepting our prayer. It is not felt. We cannot feel the pain now! The pain is not immediate. If you do not enquire about the erroneous bill – the pain of paying extra is felt. The pain of delay makes us to find out what is happening in our roads. The pain of not being a successful entrepreneur makes us to find out the art of business success. That is why we are not serious in knowing the art of prayer. Do you know which prophet said the following supplication?



O my Lord! Make me one who establishes regular Prayer, and also (raise such)among my offspring O our Lord! And accept Thou my Prayer – AL Quran 14:40




Do you still think that there is nothing in prayer just because we cannot feel the benefit from it? Prayer is quencher! Read the following verse of the holy Quran :





For Him (alone) is prayer in Truth: any others that they call upon besides Him hear them no more than if they were to stretch forth their hands for water to reach their mouths but it reaches them not: for the prayer of thosewithout Faith is nothing but(futile) wandering (in their mind) : Chap 13verse 14



Can you hold water with stretch out hands? Bring all the fingers together like a cup and quench your thirst by quality prayer

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