معرفت ادیان

Prayer is an inner covenant between human being and the Almighty God and is the link between his heart and the Creator, and is a common matter among Abrahamic religions, suthat every believer feels that one cannot understand the sweet taste of faith in the unseen (ghaib) without prayer. Due to the special position of prayer, this article presents a comparative study of the pillars of prayer in the Holy Qur'an and the Bible. This research is useful in prayer researches on the one hand, and in inter-religious discussions on the other hand. The authors' method is to comprehensively compare and explain the commonalities to take another step towards proximity of religions. Thus various aspects related to the pillars of prayer have been examined in three sections: the pillars of prayer in the Old Testament, the pillars of prayer in the New Testament and the pillars of prayer in the Qur'an. Then I have compared and evaluated them. In the course of the research, I have found some commonalities that indicate the unity of heavenly religions in their source from the Almighty God, to move towards a comprehensive and new civilization.