Prayer Value

THE VALUE OF PRAYER

“More things are wrought by prayers

Than this world dreams of”

     These are the famous words of a famous English Poet, Lord Tennyson. Indeed it is found many times that when all human resources fail, prayers help us.

          Let us suppose a man is in great trouble; he starts praying. Now, his prayers may not make the troubles vanish into thin air as if by magic but he will certainly get extra strength to fight these difficulties and he will probably come out successful. The moral strength with he gained from prayers is the great blessing of prayers.

          Some people now-a-days look lightly upon prayers. Regular prayers offered at fixed times is an excellent method of teaching discipline. Prayers offered in congregation, like the namaz on Fridays, teach fellow-feeling and the ideal of equality of men before God. These are valuable lessons for life. When people go to attend mass prayers, they feel that all men are equal before God and that it is their duty to help their fellow human beings in their needs:

          That is so far as mass prayers are concerned but even prayers offered individually in the seclusion of the house help us in the same way. A person who bows down in prayer before the Almighty must learn humility. He realizes that he will have to stand before his God again for his prayers and so he will be afraid of doing anything wrong in his day-to-day activities of life.

          The greatest good of prayers is the supreme feeling of peace that one gets after offering one’s prayer. Faith in God develops faith in one’s own self and enables us to live in the world better than we could do without such faith.