However there is a weekly congregational prayer called "Jummah" (which literally means "gathering") at the Mosque. This prayer replaces the usual noontime prayers on Friday and people do leave work and other activities to attend. It also includes a sermon and usually people gather and talk before and after.
As per the topic title let's explore a little of how Jummah and Salat stack up against scripture. Historical events recorded in scripture are simply that, and do not automatically constitute ordinances that require imitation. So while the Gospel records an occasion in which Jesus prostrated Himself, it doesn't automatically create an ordinance for that, particularly when we are otherwise already given instruction on specifically how to pray.
1Th 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
If we did that the way Muslims pray we would have to learn how to walk with our foreheads dragging on the ground! That verse describes constant contact and communication, through our relationship, with our Savior.
The Gospel also specifically tells Christians how NOT to pray:
Mat 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Muhammad's followers pray exactly in the vain repetitions that the Quraish pagan's and the Sabians did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3Bla8YwbU
Indeed even some of the phrases that Muslims repeat in vain repetitions are some of the very same phrases that the pagan Arabians did before Muhammad. Muhammad's followers even prostrate themselves toward the Quraish pagan's black stone idol in Mecca, and run back and forth between al-safa and al-marwah the way the Arabian jinn-devil worshipers did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy5KaFvbU
Islam cannot even be considered a religion, but a cult that follows Muhammad alone, while rejecting ALL of the prophets and witnesses as revealed in the 1600 year record of Yahweh to mankind. Indeed blaspheming the very Messiah that bought us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUOZyrnewE
Hebrews 10:29 Of HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, and HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, wherewith he was sanctified, AN UNHOLY THING, and hath DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE, BUT THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDETH ON HIM.
You are Just Stuck On The Blood....Just On the Blood...
That's the WHOLE SUBJECT of the bible, whether atonement for sin of the old covenant through the blood of animal sacrifice in Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, or the ONE sacrifice of the Messiah of the new covenant that saves all from sin who have faith in His shed blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3Rgcw5lDwWithout the covering of Jesus precious shed blood we die wallowing in sin, separated from God forever. Jesus can give you a new heart too. All you have to do is ask Him.
http://www.islamandthetruth.com/the_lamb_slain.htmWhy don't you listen to a few testimonies of your former brethren, that have come to know the love of the one true God through a relationship with Jesus Christ, on this YouTube channel?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Muslims4JesusWe do Not use Vain Repetitions We glorify Allah...have You gone anytime in a mosque...
? Do You know???
Yes I do. Some Muslims even use prayer beads just like the Roman Catholics so you don't loose count of the vain repetitions.
Whats Recited???
I understand it can vary a little from place to place, but in "Infidel" Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains part of salat, "You say
Praise be to Allah thirty-three times; God forgive me thirty-three times; Allah is great thirty-three times; and then, if you choose, you may also say Gratitude to Allah."
Muslims are commanded to perform salat fives times a day. Muhammad lifted the five prayers a day straight from the 2nd century occult cult of the Sabians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3Bla8YwbU Do You know to whom we bow..
Yes I do, do you? You bow to the Arabian pagan deity "Allah" while you prostrate yourself toward the Quraish pagan's black stone idol in Mecca. The etymology of the name suggests it was most likely the name of the Arabian pagan's moon god.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLBam06iygSeems Yahweh even arranged to have the idol smashed to pieces the way Abraham smashed his father's idols, but Muhammad's followers collected up the pieces, cobbled them back together, and still prostrate to the Quraish pagan's black stone idol to this day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGyWs__Y-rUA demon that called itself Gabriel, also known as Satan, even made Muhammad feel it was squeezing the life out of him three times in the cave on that fateful day. In the same group of caves that others had experienced encounters with demons in. Muhammad even told Khadijah he had an encounter with a demon, but she talked him out of it, even though she wasn't there and had no idea what had happened to Muhammad. In other words, you can thank Muhammad's first wife Khadijah for your "religion". Seems Muhammad - who actually had the experience - knew full well it was a demon.
2Cr 11:14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Indeed a great chastisement being prepared for you , of what i am sure!!! 
Can't you begin to see? The only reason you believe that is because Satan, through Muhammad, convinced you that if you don't follow Muhammad (Satan) you are going to burn in hell fire. Simple child psychology. That's why one out of every nine verses in the Quran are about hell and punishment. Satan even has you calling on the Arabian pagan deities name and asking "I seek shelter from Satan", fooling you into believing that somehow that will save you, even as you reject the WHOLE SUBJECT of the Gospel and the blood that would save you.
But Yahweh's people have followed Him for 3500 years, through two covenants, by
ALL of the prophets and witnesses as revealed in His 1600 year record. Christians follow the sinless Messiah, the Prince of Peace the Lamb of God. The Messiah that you yourself was raised bodily to heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCE_sti-uZcMuhammad's followers follow
MUHAMMAD ALONE through his
STAND-ALONE 23 year 7th century record. A man that your own books reveal as a sinful, mass murdering, child doing, female prisoner abusing, self-admitted terrorist, and thief, whose corpse still lies rotting in its shallow grave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2kCxOGGM5wIslam is not a religion, but an imperialistic, political, death cult, bent on conquest of all nations, and subjugation of all people, to Muhammad's followers. Just as it has been since the 7th century when Muhammad invented his scheme and mass murdered the innocent Jewish farm boys who had reached puberty, and their dads and grandpas of the faithful, literate, productive, peaceful prosperous Jewish community of the Banu Qurayza, while sexually enslaving their little sisters, mothers and grandmothers.
Bukhari:V5B59N459 "
I entered the Mosque, saw Abu, sat beside him and asked about sex. Abu Said said, 'We went out with Allah's Apostle and we received female slaves from among the captives. We desired women and we loved to do coitus interruptus.'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9FYYo5EINUWake up man. Since Muhammad professed the EXACT OPPOSITE of the WHOLE SUBJECT of the Gospel - 600 years after the scriptures were closed - one of us is headed in a disastrous direction.
Rev 22:18
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: That is exactly what the false prophet Muhammad did. That is the reward he faces. You don't have to suffer the same.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast {
Islam}
was taken, and with him {kingdom/beast is a "his" in Daniel}
the false prophet [Mohammed]
that wrought miracles [Quran]
before him, [this means in the presence of the {beast - Islam - Muslims}
with which he deceived them {Muslims}
that had received the mark {
666}
of the beast, and them {Muslims}
that worshipped his image. {today's Islam and second Jihad in the image of the Islamic First Jihad. Jihad is the
pinnacle of worship in Islam}
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.If you missed that link, here are some of Muhammad's followers on 666. God may have provided them as a warning to YOU.
http://www.66619.org/thequran.htmThe NKJV does a little better job of this portion of this verse:
(NKJV) Revelation 19:20 ...
and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence...
The Koine Greek word "
semeion" translated as "miracles" and "signs" is defined in Strong's as "
that by which a person is distinguished from others and is known". That makes Mohammed a perfect fit for the false prophet, since he is his known for his Quran, and has without question been distinguished from others by it for 1400 years.
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them {Muslims}
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast {Islam}
and the false prophet {Mohammed}
[are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.If we consider an
ethnographic hermeneutic of John's whole "
world" - that is looking through John's eyes at the time he penned the book of Revelation (which is required because he wrote about the things that were, are and will be, through his eyes) - John's world would have been limited to the Middle East area and perhaps extend into the lands of the Roman Empire at that time. The Bible was written about the Holy Land and God's people, not Peoria Illinois.
