Quote from: Mazhar on August 14, 2013, 09:36:39 AM
Living by one's own opinions and understandings is individual's prerogetive. But still he needs excuses to uphold his opinion.
Allah does not need to be fed; He feeds but does ask for Assalat:
وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاصْطَبِرْ عَلَيْهَا لَا نَسْأَلُكَ رِزْقًا نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُكَ
Refer 20:132
[Shakir 20:132] And enjoin prayer on your followers, and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for subsistence;
We do give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against evil).
So now you can see quite clearly:
salat is NOT a subsistence towards the God
salat *is* a subsistence towards the believer, it FEEDS the believer
I love how you cite the very ayat I referred to in the first place in some faint hopes of proving such a point, did you not step back and think for a second, "wait a minute, that's the very verse this person is referring to in the first place"?
Keep in mind I have said nothing about the fact it is a timed ordinance. Certainly it *must* be "performed" morning and evening at the very least but as to WHAT is being performed, the actual content of the ritual, that is where I see problems arising. Because as you very much well know, people do not go to the mosques to feed themselves. They go to appease a deity who they do not even understand or truly believe in. And this is the lie that is confusing and destroying the entire community