[RaNi iS ThE BeS]

~Khushi~:

Im curious to know. Is it significant to address to Whom you pray to? Praying to 'one' or 'several' shouldnt make a difference to actual value, quality, reality and purity of the prayer should it? Just a thought… What is a prayer?

Yes, it is significant to address to whom you pray to. When you make a prayer, it's like you're sending a letter to someone. Then that someone receives your letter and replies to it. In order to send the letter, you need an address. Without the address, you can't send your letter. In your prayer, the name you choose to call your God is like the address. You can't just be like “I pray to God,” Don't you think that it makes sense that if you do believe that there is ONE God, then you should just call Him by one Name? There is only One God, and He is the All – Merciful. Just because you don't accept Islam as your religion, does not mean that He does not accept your prayer. He accepts your prayer, but to know your God should be important to you, because you'd know who accepted your prayer (i.e received and replied to your letter).

Another thing, there is only ONE God, the fact that people give Him different names does not take anything away from his oneness. For example, if you are sending a letter to Ms. Smith, her husband calls her “honey” and her daughter calls her “mommy,” but you cannot write “honey” or “mommy” on the letter, you must write Ms. Smith because that is her name.

There is only one God, He has only one name, you just have to find it.

Prayer is submission to your Lord. When you pray, you surrender to your Lord. To remember, to worship, and to praise God is a prayer. A prayer is also when you ask something of your Lord. Then we have the daily 5 prayers that a Muslim offers to our Lord; Allah. It is called Salaah in Arabic. Salaah means to worship Allah in a specific and prescribed manner which includes specific verbal and physical actions.

Does that make sense, dii?