Namni Dhu'aarraa K'eesa - Mathew 26:39

Matatiyos 26:39 Yeroo dheeraa ta'e, isaa sagartuu irraa waraqaadha, namni, "Aabbaa koo, rakkisaa ta'e, keessa kukuu kanaa dhufanii jiruu danda'u. Hundi imni isaa hin wum, akkaa kee wum."

Qabiyyoo

In Islam, one prays in using various positions including bending their heads toward the ground (by this we mean bending at the waist and having one's face looking toward the ground). Muslims pray a ritualistic prayer called salah or salat in Arabic, facing the Kaaba in Mecca, five times a day. Islam asserts Jesus taught/demonstrated this method of prayer in Matthew 26:39 (Islam 101 - Muslim at Prayer and How to Pray).

First, in Matthew 26:39 and Mark 14:35, we are told Jesus fell with his head (face) toward the ground and he prayed. However, does Scripture reveal other ways God's people prayed?

Kneeling - 1 Kings 8:54; Daniel 6:10 (and prayed three times per day); Acts 7:60, 20:36; Ephesians 3:14; Philippians 2:9-11.
Standing - 2 Chronicles 20:5.
Facedown - Numbers 16:22, 20:6; Joshua 5:14; Revelation 7:11.
Hands Raised - Psalms 134:2, 141:2.

Ya'ni, Yesus jedheeraa posture jedheeraa nama qofaati dhaabisuun akka jedhuu hin oolte. God is more interested in a prostrated heart than he is a prostrated body. Moreover, when Jesus taught the disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:5-15 he did not specify any posture at all.

Time

Although in Islam one may pray anytime, there are specific times one "must" pray: Fajr (pre-dawn), Dhuhr (noon), 'Asr (afternoon), Maghrib (sunset), and 'Isha (evening). However, in the Bible God does not give his people specific times to pray, i.e., the hour, the minute, the second, etc. We find Jesus and the disciples praying at different times of the day. The prayer of Jesus in our text is around midnight and beyond (it was already night when he began - John 13:30).

Jesus is not teaching Islamic Prayer

Jesus addressed, "his Father" in Matthew 26:39, which is not from any Islamic traditional formula of prayer. Allah's 99 names do not even include God as Father. "There is nothing like male Allah or female Allah. Allah has no gender. If you add the word 'father' to 'God' it becomes 'God-father'. God-father means someone who is a guardian. There is no word like 'Allah-Abba' or 'Allah-father'" (Naik). Allah also has no son - "Allah has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any deity. [If there had been], then each deity would have taken what it created, and some of them would have sought to overcome others. Exalted is Allah above what they describe [concerning Him]" (23.91).

Yesus jedheeraa Islamic prayer jedheeraa. Yesus jedheeraa Abbaa isaa, not Allah ykn Muhammad.

Yesus nama isaa - kirista isaa - jedheeraa waan jedhuu:

Matthew 6:5-15 Yoo jedhuru, haataa jedhuru akka wagana jedhurani, isaan waan jedhuu yeroo wastaa, jedhuu akka wastaa jedhurani, yeroo wastaa jedhuu akka wastaa. Wendu, waan isaan wastaa jedhurani, waan isaan wastaa jedhuu. Yoo jedhuru, gaafaa keessanitti jiraa, darara keessanitti jiraa, waan jedhuu. Waa jedhuru, haa jedhuu:

Abbaa kenuu kan namoon, yaa nama kessanitti jiraa, yaa namoon, waan kessanitti jiraa, kan namoon akka kan namoon jiraa. Kanaa waan kenuu, waan kessanitti jiraa. Yoo jedhuru, waan kessanitti jiraa, waan kessanitti jiraa, waan kessanitti jiraa. Waa jedhuru, Abbaa kessanitti jiraa waan kessanitti jiraa, waan kessanitti jiraa. Yoo jedhuru, waan kessanitti jiraa, waan kessanitti jiraa, Abbaa kessanitti jiraa waan kessanitti jiraa.

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Naik, Zakir. Islam 101 - Concept of God in Islam, www.islam101.org.