format_quote Originally Posted by
glo
Is it permitted/acceptable for non-Muslims to pray for Muslims? Or would Muslims be offended?
Thanks.
Of course your genuine prayers, when in real belief in One God, are always acceptable. No matter whom you pray for, or what religion or what sect of what religion, you pray with and in, So long as your mind to your Lord is within real belief in One Single Unifying God, creator of all real matter, and decider of the Universe, then there is no question as to whether your prayer is acceptible.
Believer's Prayers always receive the gratitude of whom it is we pray for, even when we pray for persons whose immediate worldly belief system is different from our own.
As a Christian perhaps it might benefit you to learn that Muslims are taught to mind very consciously what form of internal mental process is going on for us during prayer. Many of us are very familiar with the processing of becoming aware of imperfections in our own prayer forms, since we are taught to be more in fear of any wrong mindedness than Christians are. So if a Muslim tells you your prayers might not be received, then they may only be referring to a Muslim experience of comprhending what has potential to go wrong with an odd prayer form.
Use the Lord's Prayer, since it is a formula which has an Arabic variety also.
Here I will try to find a variety in English:
In the name of the Holy Active and of the Holy passivity and in the name of the Holy Reconciliation in Jesus Christ
Because in Isa alone have I come into Islam
Hear this prayer will survive me
In the name of Allah the Beneficient and the Merciful
This is a Prayer
Oh Allah of Faith
Allah of Freedom
Allah prepare me for this
My body and mind
Be clean and well thought of
That I may turn to you alone in Prayer
Prepare that I fear not
To sacrifice my want
And prepare that I receive
That I am able accept
Unconditionally Loved by all and sundry
My soul ever
Faithful in Prayer
Allah is who can protect me from the accursed
Glory be Allah’s
Praise be Allah’s
Blessed in Majesty Mercy and Grace
Alone Highest in Judgment
First of the world
We worship Truly
And ask for Help only in truth
Lead us upon the way of truth
As favoured in you
Not the path of those whom anger you
Or those who lead us astray
I have this much I know I sacrifice when I Pray
And am in Faith that those who blaspheme
Your name will loose all their wealth
Grant Glory to the cause of my being
And that I may worthily fulfil
And worthily worship
Allah alone be praised
None is before Allah
That all Praise belong to
Only who sustain believing true
Glory to who created my being
Glory upon the most high
To Allah alone I pray
Allah begetteth not
Neither is begotten
And none can invite
Greetings to all Allah’s prophets
Allah’s Peace and Blessings be upon
Ever well remembered Mohammud
For teaching us to sustain this Faith
That all pious people are enabled
Worship belonging only in Allah
I manifest this belief in my Prayer
By words dress and posture
Be that I abstain from temptations
And am among the worldwide community of Moslims
Who can understand
This my account
In the Freedom of Faith
Is alone in me with Allah
And I am in preparation ever
To spread this good message
Allah’s people are any
And none designated more worthy
Than any other one
But only in that we accept
Truly to live in Allah
Accepting His Beneficence
Accepting His Mercy and Grace
His compassion our face
Bless all the people of Mohammed’s
Greatest of inheritances
Of Faith sustaining
The protection of children
That children also
May Dream in Peace
Accept our sacrifice
Giving up our want
To receive that we must for Peace
By Faith and Hope in Jesus and Love being among
Allah whose work is in Heaven
Forever Holy and Praiseworthy your name
All Earthly matters of Governance by yours Forever more
May we ever enact only within your will
That this our Earth become liken to Heaven in governance by Faith
Bless us with daily providence
Let us know your truth in Forgiveness
Exactly as we are able to administer our own compassion to your people
Lead us not towards those patterns that tempt us to continue unbelieving
But release us from the prisons of our fall
For in your Greatness you alone Allah
Hold every answer I need
That in truth I pray we folk of this Earth
Can govern justly
In your light
Ever Praising
And Honouring
Your Glory
And Forevermore
Giving up that Power
We have perceived
For it ever was yours
Oh Allah the Beneficent and Merciful
Hear our Prayer
Ameen
You can read it is the same as the Lords Prayer in Christian thought form, but its words tell out the full story within the Lord's prayer. This one is a rendition of those words used in Islam, made for Christians also to believe.