Adnan Oktar A9 TV; September 15th, 2017

In order to encourage people to perform their prayers, you can make them love God. If they love God, they would want to show their love to Him through prayer.

It is important to perform prayers by knowing and thinking about the meaning of the prayer and expressing our deep love for God.

Performing prayers (salat) turns people into noble and precious beings. There are only a few things declared unlawful by God; all else is lawful and acceptable in religion.

The age that a child can begin performing prayers depends on his or her consciousness. One can begin performing prayers once he understands God’s Existence.

The Eid prayer is a great blessing to show Muslims’ enthusiasm, unity and determination to the world.

The whole world is a masjid (place of worship). Having a clean place is sufficient to pray.

There is no command in the Qur’an declaring that one cannot perform prayers in a room with pictures.

They keep millions of women away from performing prayers and taking ablution by making up hundreds of rules, none of which are in the Qur’an.

Young people can perform their prayers wherever they want. They should pay no attention to those who seek to alienate them from prayers by raising spurious difficulties.

Some circles misrepresented Islam as if it were introverted, joyless and far removed from freedoms. It is not possible to live by the religion they portray. Many people who appear to be conservative do not even perform their prayers. Because they have presented prayers as if it were an intricate, complex form of worship that is impossible to perform. The religion God described in the Qur’an is easy.

Taking ablution and performing prayers is very easy according to the Qur’an. Complicating prayers and ablution is a plot devised by the satan to keep people away from performing prayers. All sects add arbitrary, made-up sunnah and obligatory conditions to perform prayers, on their own. They all contradict with one another even about lawful and unlawful acts. Lawful and unlawful acts according to Islam are defined solely by the Qur’an. There is no such thing as performing prayers and taking ablution differently according to each sect. How to take ablution and perform prayers are defined in the Qur’an and they both are easy to perform.

I want the whole world to love one another. The Chinese, Americans, Russians, Pakistanis, everyone is very sweet. Let everyone love one another. Let the youth be merry. Let us all sing songs and dance. Let us plant flowers in front of everyone’s home. Let us remember God altogether. Friendship and companionship are very pleasant and beautiful. It is unbelievable that there are fights, conflicts and disagreements instead of what is beautiful and pleasant.

Salat (prayer) is a religious obligation that must be performed at certain, designated times of the day.

Because the traditional orthodox understanding of Islam has shown prayer (salat) as if it is too complicated to perform, many stay away from prayer.

Most people stay away from performing prayers because bigots portray it like it is a difficult practice. On the contrary, it is very easy and brings happiness. Turning prayer/ablution into difficult practices, is satan’s plot. Allah explains ablution in one verse in Qur’an. But some people write 300-page books explaining it.

God commands how to take ablution with one verse in the Qur’an and it is very easy. The bigots on the other hand, come up with 600 pages of made-up rules about ablution that differs in each school of Islam. Looking at these made up rules, some people say that they won’t be able to take ablution and perform prayers. The understanding of religion that is outside the Qur’an causes people to remain distant to Islam.

All my friends perform their daily prayers five times every day and are very meticulous about their prayers.

In many verses of the Qur’an, God mentions the existence of various realms. "Say: ´My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for God alone, the Lord of all the worlds.” Qur'an, 1:162

Many practices that are not in the Qur’an are invented to keep people away from prayer. They are used as a barrier before religion. Millions are prevented from practicing faith by means of invented practices that have no place in the Qur’an.

Buddhism is a corrupt version of true religion. Acts of worship like prayer, fasting and giving alms exist in Buddhism, though in a changed form.

Performing prayers is a very old form of worship. All tribes throughout history prayed throughout history. This is also seen on cave paintings.

A sincere, devout Muslim would never forget performing prayers. Performing daily prayers is an amazing act of worship with which we show our love to God. It is a blessing for us.

The Qur'an is sufficient. A Muslim knows praying and prayer times from the details given in the Qur'an.

Allah reveals in the Qur'an that prayer is an obligation that must be performed on time. It is not acceptable to delay prayer to another time.

All my friends are very meticulous about their prayers. They always perform their prayers on time and are very careful not to miss any prayer.