Everyone run to your prayer-mats!

[diwana]

okay so why don't you show me some evidence that suggests that God does not care about such things? My opinion was based on my understanding that God has advised us to ask and He shall give... and He hasn't specified that people should not pray for sports. the way I see it, if religion defines your way of life, then prayers are an essential component of every facet of your life, and there's no harm in praying for something you wish for. Again, it's all a matter of interpretation... let's leave it up to the individual and his/her beliefs without imposing our own criteria for what may or may not be a worthy cause.

au contraire, praying for a "trivial" matter shows that the individual asks God for His help even in the most basic things... and as opposed to making a mockery, I construe it to be somewhat of a statement that goes to show the strong beliefs of a person. Just a different way to look at things I suppose...

I posted what God would see people to pray for and you agreed to. Need I still prove my point?

I did not agree what you are proposing to pray for. So you need to bring proof of your point.

Strong belief does not mean asking for something like cricket game.

I notice you have carefully avoided comment on the description of this game as I mentioned hitting a round ball with a wooden bat and running crazy between two ends as a silly game *not worthy of praying for.
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What good it does to any nation is also has not been proven by you.

I said it is a stupid game though. Waste of time, money (expensive game compared to soccer), energy and emotions...for a poor country.

Let alone waste of time from asking something better for individuals and groups.

[diwana]

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your earlier post. It just sounded like you were assuming that if a person is praying for a cricket win, he/she might not be praying for the aspects that you had highlighted.

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For some reason, this part was not seen earlier and was not quoted in my earlier post.

That's OK. Yes. Two are not mutually exclusive at all. Thanks.

[Bizaario]

Re: Everyone run to your prayer-mats!

^ why are you wasting your time on a stupid game thread why don't you utilize your time better, here are some options :

Please pray for a sick.

Pray for a needy.

Pray for peace.

Pray for your parents and family

Pray for better life and being able to help other human being.

[Gina]

You can ask Allah for anything at all.. no 'dua' is wasted.. my initial post was far from serious ( I honestly didn't buy that very expensive potpourri either!) BUT there's NO reason why you can't pray for a game!

People pray for their childrens' good grades..

People pray that their water bill comes out less this time 'round..

The Prophet pbuh said:

"There is no Muslim on this earth who supplicates to Allah except that Allah will give him what he asked or He will remove some evil from him, as long as he does not supplicate for something evil or as long as he does not supplicate for cutting of the ties of kinship and as long as he does not become impatient and say, ‘I supplicated and supplicated and I was not responded to"

No footnote saying anything about sports.

Oh well this thread was far from serious.. but it is now. Mods, feel free to lock move or let it stay!

[Lafanter]

Re: Everyone run to your prayer-mats!

o come on diwana, what are you ? a 2 year old

its not about hitting a red ball with wooden bat, its about about our national pride. There are nations competing each other. Whats wrong with ppl praying for the islamic republic of pakistan to win.

to your Q abt the red ball and bat, I can ask whats the point in hitting your head against the ground many times a day. lol but I wont.

[diwana]

@Lafanter

o come on diwana, what are you ? a 2 year old

its not about hitting a red ball with wooden bat, its about about our national pride. There are nations competing each other. Whats wrong with ppl praying for the islamic republic of pakistan to win.

to your Q abt the red ball and bat, I can ask whats the point in hitting your head against the ground many times a day. lol but I wont.

LOL!

OK I will talk in baby language soon.

I gave a different perspective and tried to slow down the hyped up emotions.

I know what cricket is and have played well.

Now coming to your post.

Pride? Based on cricket game? lol.

Those people who stay long hours watching game and missing work on top of having a holiday. Isn’t that a loss rather than win?

Pride comes from many other things. It seems the **priorities have been backward so far. **Same youngsters could spend their times for something better.

While others might be hyped up with games, they also have developed infrastructure to make sure the nation and country stays at the top of technology, education, cleanliness etc.

What Pakistani youngsters do? they just come out on streets with firing, shouting, making streets even dirtier, blocking traffic. Making lives difficult for common people, sick people or older people trying to rest at home.They act like loonies don’t they?

Someone said: Cricket team brightened the name of Pakistan!

yeah right! The country has no electricity to lighten the streets but off course the country NAME must be brightened by winning a game!

Competition?

Why not compete for better lives of people in the country?
Why not try to get out of energy crisis, food crisis, health crisis and whatever instead of wasting countries money on satellite to be able to watch a freaking game!

Cricket as I mentioned is one of most expensive games compared to Soccer or even Hockey-the so called national game. What happened to that? Systematic destruction of its institutes and support. Poor Baloch/Makrani used to play great soccer but were not funded.

I am well aware of the reactions to this.

But be realistic rather than emotional. That is not what smart people do.