Why Do Muslims Praise Allah?

A few minutes ago I received another comment from the Muslim poster who started me on this fiasco. He stated that if a Muslim chooses not to pray, he is violating one of the Five Pillars of Islam and consequently he is no longer a Muslim. Faithful Muslims go to heaven, non Muslims are an unknown, so he says. Like Christianity, there are different concepts and interpretations of Islam, obviously. But seemingly as far as he is concerned, God gives benefits to those who give him praise. I like your interpretation better. A god who gives things and then needs constant praise for the things given seems like a shallow god.

 

We engage in prayer because we are in a relationship. Why do I talk to my wife and kids? It engages us in relationship.

 

Because Mohammad, the guy that invented that "religion of peace" and allah says so.

 

Christians praise God, not allah. They aren't the same.

 

Correction, allah, the god Mohammad invented, isn't mentioned in the Bible.

Nowhere is allah used in the Bible. allah and God aren't the same.

 

He didn't need to invent anything. The pagans he preached to believed in God, the creator of everything, but they nevertheless prayed to idols. Hence the message that there is no god but God, and that He alone is worthy of worship:

 

A true god would not require worship nor accept it as that is vanity.

 

No, God gives his benefits to all and asks for nothing. He requires that the believer prays to show his faith, not to show he is grateful for God's blessing. It is, after all, the Believer who professes his belief in God, not the other way around. If we are grateful to God for his beneficence that pleases him but God gives us his gifts because the giving of them pleases God. Just as a loving father gives gifts to his children for no other reason than because he loves them, so God gives the remarkable Earth he has created and the miracle of our existence in it, to us.

 

God doesn't require worship. He can't help but accept it because it is the only feeling possible once one apprehends God's real nature. As imperfect beings we cannot help but worship a perfect thing if we truly understand that is what it is.

 

I said a true god would not require worship...you are free to worship if you feel you should....but a true god would never require it in order to get into heaven...nor would it require people to accept him. True god accepts all his creations....good bad or indifferent, otherwise it means he created some of us in order to punish and I dont think true god would ever do such a thing.

 

You cornered the angry and smug market?

 

And you know what a "true" would require because...?

It is not vanity, because God's pride is warranted. He is perfect

 

Muslim translates as servent/slave of God. They have to be diligent worshippers if they take religion seriously. Jews are in a similar situation, pious Jews are a real pain to deal with on Saturdays.

 

Nonsense. Islam fully accepts the bible and the one god it is about.

Saying there is a difference makes no more sense than suggesting the god of the Pope is not the god of protestants or the god of the Jews.

 

Allah is just the Arabic word for "God".. Like Dieu in French, Gott in German or Dios in Spanish.. The whole world does not speak English.

 

That'll be a revelation for him!

 

Well, I think if God demands prayer for any reason he is asking for something. I hearken back to my analogy of giving someone $100 with the stipulation that he thanks me each time we meet. I generally hold God to the same standards of morality and decorum that I hold the ordinary guy on the street. For that matter, I've always been bothered by the idea of God engineering genocidal plagues and floods too, killing the innocent along with the guilty. Maybe I'm just too moral, although I've never been accused of that.

 

LOLOLOL

I try to be kind...........

 

Correct, but he did.
ed to believed in God, the creator of everything, but they nevertheless
prayed to idols.[/quote]

Correct, there is only one God and allah isn't it.

 

Er, "Allah" is the Arabic word for God. Arab Christians use the term "Allah."

 

Irrelevant. The God of the Judeo-Christians isn't the same as that "religion of peace".

It makes total sense. If that "religion of peace" accepted the God of Judeo-Christianity there
would be no contradictions between the two.

 

Lol, Judaism believes Christ is neither God nor the Messiah. Talk about contradiction...

 

That's irrelevant. They believe in the same God. Ergo, no contradiction.

 

But Jews don't believe Jesus is God. If they don't believe Jesus is God, then they obviously don't believe in the same God.

 

Correct, allah is an Arabic word for god. It's also the proper name that Mohammad gave him.
He named his allah (god) Allah (proper name).