The Quest of a Curious Muslim

The Quest of a Curious Muslim — Page 26

WHY IS THE ARABIC LANGUAGE SO IMPORTANT IN PRAYERS? 26 appear to be difficult. However, those who have made the effort always give testimony that Arabic is actually the easiest language to memorize! The fact that millions of people have memorized the Holy Quran in its entirety and many millions of others have memorized portions of it, is a testament to the ease with which this language can be memorized. It should be noted that among those millions are many for whom Arabic is not the mother tongue and they learned it later in life. The poetic, rhythmic, eloquent flow of the language is far superior to any other language, making it much easier to memorize. Once the Arabic portion is memorized, and its translation is also learned, it actually becomes very easy to offer the prayer in Arabic. After all, it is just a handful of sentences that are to repeated multiple times in a matter of a few minutes. It is an overstatement to say that this is too difficult or too much of a burden. The most intimate and personal part of the Islamic daily prayer is prostration, where the worshipper says: