History of prayer

Establish regular prayer, it is a duty prescribed time for the people who believe

- Qs. 4 an-Nisa ': 103-104

O ye who believe, Ruku 'and prostrate yourselves, worship your Lord, Be always good, so you get a victory - Qs. 22 al-hajj: 77

The term comes from the verb Prayer Shalaah (stating an action) and those who do it are called Mushallin, while the central point of doing so-called mosque.

Except for people who mushollin (who worked on prayer)

- Qs. 70 al-Ma'arij: 22

Make the most of the station of Ibrahim's mosque (place of prayer)

- Qs. 2 al-Baqarah: 125

Prayer is an act of glorifying God who became a sign of gratitude of the Muslims as a servant to the movement and readings that have been specially arranged by the Prophet Muhammad that should not be changed unless there are provisions that allow it [1].

Command prayer itself has to be introduced early on to younger generations in the future of Islam so that one day they no longer feel awkward, embarrassed or even can not do it.

Of Amer bin Shu'aib of his father from his grandfather, said:

Prophet said: 'Command your children to do the prayer when they were 7 years old and beat them if you do not do it when they were 10 years old'

- Hadith Reported by Ahmad and Abu Dawood

Command to establish family prayers, and be patient in doing it - Qs. 20 Ta-Ha: 132

From the Hadith we have that set up a prayer already stressed from age 7 years and up to the age of 10 years if not also do it then we should begin to be an affirmation of the blow until they want to build it. ; Of blows in question here is not the purpose of hurting let alone to the level of persecution, but simply to give instruction and warning to lazy and do not want to pray. Is not God's punishment paradoxically far more than just a blow hard that we provide in order to care for our children and protect them from the Wrath of God?

Take care of yourself from the day when someone can not defend other people, and today the slightest apology is not accepted and no ransom for him and they will not be helped

Qs. 2 al-Baqarah: 48

But the Koran is also the one hand does not explain in detail when and how the technical implementation of the prayers that were ordered to the Prophet Muhammad. Yet the Koran explicitly states that the prayer was done by earlier peoples, such as orders prayers to the Prophet Abraham and his descendants [2], to the Prophet Syu'aib [3], to the Prophet Moses [4] and to the Prophet Isa al-Masih [5]. Statement of the Koran is justified by the stories in the Old Testament and New Testament which tells the system how to worship the prophets before Muhammad is no standing, bowing and prostration that when strung together like prayer is a prayer of Muslims.

Moses immediately knelt to the ground, and worshiped

Old Testament - Exodus 34:8

Come, let us worship,

kneel before the Lord who made us.

Old Testament - Psalms 95:6

Joshua Then he bowed with his face to the ground, worshiped

Old Testament - Joshua 5:14

But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel, and he bowed to the ground,

with his face between his knees

Old Testament - the Book of I Kings 18:42

So Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting,

and prostrations. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Old Testament - the Book of Numbers 20:6

Then he distanced himself from them about the stone's cast away stones

then he knelt and prayed - New Testament - Luke 22:41

He advanced a little, lay down on the ground and prayed

- New Testament - the Gospel of Mark 14:35

From this fact, it was clear to Muslims that the prayer has become a tradition and teachings of the standard for all prophets and messengers of God throughout the ages, as saying:

As a condition of God that has prevailed since the first, though you will not find a change for GOD's provisions

- Qs. 48 al-fath: 23

The journey of the Prophet Muhammad on the space highway, known as the Isra 'and Mi'raj are told earlier ordered prayers to the Prophet Muhammad as found in several hadith is considered authentic or valid by some scholars as the logic it contains a lot of inconsistency with the facts of history and paragraph- verse of the Koran itself.

According to tradition, the Isra 'and Mi'raj occurred while Khadijah, the Prophet's first wife died, in which event it would become one of the entertainment for a new prophet abandoned by his beloved wife and also his uncle, Abu Talib where the year is called the year of mourning or aamul ilzan [6].

While history is also said that long before the Isra 'and Mi'raj, the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have done with Khadijjah as congregational prayer had ever seen and asked questions by Ali ibn abu Talib who was then still a teenager [7].

Logically prayer command has been received by the Prophet Muhammad was not at his Isra 'and Mi'raj, but long before that, let alone objectively verses of the Koran that tell about the events of Ascension does not mention about the existence of the commands given to the Prophet's Prayer. [8]; In both chapters the story only emphasizes the Prophet's journey in order to demonstrate some of the greatness of God's universe as well dialam was the second time the Prophet saw the original form of the angel Gabriel after he had first seen as a revelation in the cave of Hira.

Moreover, beyond the tradition of Isra 'and Mi'raj depicting the Prophet gained command in prayer these events, Imam Muslim narrated in a hadith musnadnya there another completely unrelated to the story but there Mi'raj Prophet explains how studying the prayer of the angel Gabriel .

Of Abu Mas'ud r.a. he said: Allah's Apostle said: Gabriel down, then he became a priest to me And I pray with him, then I prayed with him, then I prayed with him and I prayed with him and I prayed with the Prophet counting with five fingers - Hadith Muslim History [9]

If so, what about the truth of tradition which is believed by many that the newly acquired command of the Prophet prayer during Isra 'and Mi'raj?

It may sound extreme, but doubt or even reject the validity of the validity of these traditions is not a particularly disgraceful act of sin, in this case we do not reject with no clear basis, the narrators of hadith remains the human being as we are, they also can go wrong either intentionally let alone that they intentionally or without knowing it, it is our duty to make corrections if you get the error on the history of tradition that they did certainly while maintaining her dignity and hope that God forgive his mistakes.

Several variations of the story awkwardness Isra 'and Mi'raj of them call it the story of the Prophet Muhammad and the Buraq when stopped at the Baitul Maqdis and congregational prayers in the Aqsa Mosque with the spirits of the prophets before, but history records that al-Aqsa mosque was built in the reign of Caliph Umar Bin Khattab in 637 AD, when invasion into Palestine which incidentally was the Prophet Muhammad himself had long passed away, he died in 632 BC.

Story of the prayer of the Prophet Muhammad and his spirits should even this begs the question, because the Prophet had to pray (according to tradition was even raka'atnya number 2) so that the statement of the Prophet received the command at Ascension Prayer is contrary to this story occurs when the seconds before the noodles' raj itself.

Not to mention the stories of the spirits of the prayer the Prophet can not we accept it with a logical mind, the life they have ended before the birth of Prophet Muhammad, and they themselves have fulfilled their obligations as a messenger of God to his people, what more they need the body was already buried land in the prayers?

After completion of congregational prayer, then one by one the spirits of the prophets and messengers gave his speech ... what a thing is far-fetched, because their numbers there are thousands who came from various regions across the globe, both named in the Koran or not [10], how long it takes to hold up their remarks by the spirits of this?

If it is intended that all the prophets and messengers were met, and testify of the truth of Muhammad, is contradicted by the Koran itself which states that at the time of their lives and their appointment as a prophet and messenger, Allah has taken a covenant from them concerning the coming of a Prophet which justifies their previous teaching and there are implicit orders to his people to deliver on each:

And when Allah took the covenant of the Prophets:

'If you come to the Book and Wisdom, and come unto you an Apostle confirming what is there about me, you shall believe in it are true.'; He asked: 'Have you agreed and accepted the covenant?'; They said: 'We menyanggupinya!'; He said: 'Bear witness! and I'm with you are a body among those who saw! '

- Qs. 3 Ali Imron: 81

Peak impossibility story of the traditions of Prophet Muhammad Ascension is currently reported have been back and forth from the spirit of God to the prophet Moses to offer the prayer which was originally 50 times to 5 times a day and night, are so stupid that the Prophet Muhammad that he should be given advice many times by the spirit of the prophet Moses in order to ask for waivers to GOD to 9 times the round trip?

Does not lack spirit teachings of the Prophet Moses in the story by supposing God did not understand the weaknesses and limitations of the people of the Prophet Muhammad because without a second thought before giving a definite liability burden can not be done by them so that the spirit of the Prophet Moses had to intervene to give warning to God and Prophet Muhammad more than once as an indication israiliyat (Hadith made the people of Israel or the Jews are deliberately made to glorify the Prophet Moses remained above the other)?

Whether such traditions are still to be received and retained only to defend the proposition falling orders prayers, while the Koran itself whose truth value is definitely not it say anything about it?

There is no doubt that the Prophet Muhammad had done Isra 'and Mi'raj as it is in al-Quran and can be analyzed scientifically, no doubt also that the prayer is one of the primary obligation of a Muslim because even this many verses in the Koran and other traditions, even prayer is a tradition inherited by all the Prophets and Apostles in all of his time. It's just that it does not mean the Muslims can accept all the history of tradition that it clearly has a conflict with al-Quran and logic, so that eventually only be handed sense in stupidity to think, when God requires people to think and dhikr in reading the verses, Him.

[1] For example, if the sick should pray by sitting, lying down to just a blink of an eye

[2] See surah al-prophets verse 21 and sura 73 verse 19 Mary 55

[3] See surah 11 verse 87 Huud

[4] See paragraph 14 Surah Ta-Ha 20

[5] See surah 19 verse 31 of Maryam

[6] Drs. Abu Ahmadi, Pearl Isra 'Mi'raj, publisher of Earth Literacy, p. 27

[7] Muhammad Husayn Haekal, Life History of Muhammad, a big issue, Litera Antarnusa Publishers, 1998, p. 87-88

[8] See surah 17 al-israa paragraphs 1 and an-Najm Sura 53 verse 13 s / d 18

[9] HS Fachruddin, Translations Hadith Sahih Muslim III, Section 26, Prayer Time and Qibla obligatory, the Crescent Star Publishers, London, 1979, p. 170

[10] See surah 40 al-Mu'min: 78 and sura. 17 al-israa ': 15