{"id":222,"date":"2011-08-07T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-05-26T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T23:42:16","slug":"role-of-prayer-in-spiritual-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Role of Prayer in Spiritual Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Invariably, all world religions have formal prayers.\n<p>Their forms and mechanics vary, yet formal prayers play a key role in a faith-based life.<\/p>\n<p>What functions do they serve?<\/p>\n<p>What goals do they achieve?<\/p>\n<p>This lecture examines the role of formal prayers in spiritual life, using the Islamic daily prayer (or \u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629) as an example.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3946\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3946','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=222-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-08-2011.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invariably, all world religions have formal prayers. Their forms and mechanics vary, yet formal prayers play a key role in a faith-based life. What functions do they serve? What goals do they achieve? This lecture examines the role of formal prayers in spiritual life, using the Islamic daily prayer (or \u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629) as an example.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3947\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3947','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=222-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-08-2011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-08-2011.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-lectures","category-mysticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}