Friday, November 9, 2007

Power of Prayer to Change for the Better

There seem to be a lot of prayer sites on the web of late, particularly sites in which people request others to pray for them, regardless of religious beliefs or convictions. I am guilty of posting my prayers on some of these sites, for various personal reasons. But I was thinking that a lot of the discontent is financially based because of the poor economy, and the way the current administration (I will name no names) is handling the current man made mess on all levels of government.
Why can't people do a group prayer around the world during an agreed upon time that coincided with each time zone and pray for ease and for God to take away all these difficulties that people on all levels are experiencing? If group prayer really has a kind of powerful effect, we should really tap into it. I mean, the power is with the people, isn't it?

Here is an interesting story that I found somewhere in my vast files and pulled for you now.

A business trip was once travelling through the desert. During this journey, one of the travelers had an accident and the animal he was using as transport, got injured and broke its leg. The person was left behind alone in the lonely desert from the rest of the group. During this hardship, he remembered the benefits of Durood Shareef and started to read Durood Shareef aloud. After a short while, he suddenly saw that sand was being lifted up from the ground at a distance. When the clouds of sand moved away, he saw three beautiful people coming towards him. One of them asked the traveler, Why are you sitting here all on your own? He started to cry and told him what had happened. One of the beautiful people came off his horse and went towards the injured animal. He read Durood Shareef and blew on the broken leg. Suddenly, the broken leg was joined together and the animal was perfect like before. The traveller became happy and asked the most beautiful looking person Who is this person who has healed my injured animal? That beautiful persons beautiful lips started to move, flowers started to scatter, the words came out to be something like this, "These two are my grandchildren, Hassan and Hussain (radi Allahu anhumma) and I am their grandfather (sallallahu ta`ala alaihi wa aalihi wa`sallam). You read Durood Shareef and asked for help. We saw your hardship and came to help you."

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