Section Three: The Jewish Law

First: Worshipping practices:

1.     Prayer:

The Jew’s objective of praying is not to worship Allah and to come closer to Him (He be glorified), but to obtain a worldly interest, i.e. salvation. Therefore, the prayer is triggered by what has happened or is happening or in order to cause something to take place, till Allah grants the earth salvation.”[1]

The prayer is performed either singly or congregationally. “The individual prayers are extemporaneous ones that are performed by individuals according to the circumstances and personal needs, such as the prayer of Abraham for the salvation of Sodom,[2] the prayer of Jacob for his salvation from his brother Esau,[3] and the prayer of Moses for the sake of the Children of Israel,[4] and so were the prayers of the Prophets Joshua, Samuel, Elias, Joshua, David, Jonah, Daniel, and Ezra. Such prayers can be performed at any place.

Congregational prayers are public prayers performed by a group of persons at specific places and specific dates according to certain rules determined by the religious leaders and priests. The ceremonial prayers were not practiced by the Israelites until the establishment of the sites of worship, such as the Tent of Meeting and the Temple.[5]

The Psalms of David and Solomon show that prayers were accompanied by singing and canonical music. In the Book of Ezra we read that among those who returned from captivity there were two hundred male and female singers. The Torah says: “and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.”[6]

Some of their sayings in the prayer:

Jews repeat in their prayer strange sayings that indicate that they were not among the teachings of Moses (peace be upon him). This has been revealed by al-Sumaw’al Ibn Yahya al-Maghribi in his book “Badhl al-Majhud fi Ifham al-Yahud” saying: “We say to them: ‘what do you say in your prayers and fasts? Do you say what Moses (peace be upon him) used to say before he departed from you?’ If they said: ‘Yes,’ we would say: ‘ Did Moses and his people use to say in their prayers what you say: ‘O God, damage [other nations] with a great horn in order to manumit us, and take hold of us from the four corners of the earth to your feet. You be Glorified, O Gatherer of the Diaspora of the Children of Israel’?

Or did people at the time of Moses (peace be upon him) use to say as you say nowadays: ‘Make our rulers as their predecessors and our pleasures as they were at the beginning and rebuild Jerusalem, the village of your holiness in our days and honor us with its building. You be Glorified, O Builder of Jerusalem’? These are verily instances certifying that you fabricated all that after the downfall of the state.”[7]

“The Persian would often prevent the Jews from performing their prayers because they knew that most of their prayers were invocations against other nations and wishing the destruction of the world to the exclusion of their own land of Canaan.”[8]

When the Persians saw the Jews’ prayer as such, they prevented them from performing it. When the Jews felt that the Persians were earnest in preventing them from performing their prayer they invented certain supplications they inserted in their prayer and called them “Chazzanut” and they designed for them several melodies and would gather to tune them and recite them. The difference between Chazzanut and a prayer is that the prayer is performed by one person and without a melody while the Chazzanut is performed with a melody shared by others. When the Persians objected to that practice they would say that they were singing and mourning for themselves. The Persians would then let them perform that practice. When the Islamic state appeared, the Jews lived in it safely and were able to perform their prayers in their synagogues and Chazzanut became a conventional ceremony in their festivals, parties and celebrations, and they substituted it for the prayer.[9]

They used to say in their prayer: “Let us thank the God of all for He did not create us like all the nations of the earth.”[10] “The Jewish clergy teach the male Jews a prayer in which they say daily: ‘Blessed be You, O Lord, our God, Owner of the Universe! That You have not created me as a woman.’”[11]

They address Allah in the prayer with what is not appropriate for His Greatness and Sovereignty. They say: “How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?”[12] They always call their god “Yahweh” and appeal to him to send their savoir, the Messiah, soon, for the Jews do not believe in Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) and are still waiting for his advent and are preparing the circumstances that precede his coming. In reality what they are waiting for is not Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) but “Anti-Christ or Pseudo-Christ”, for the real Messiah appeared and was raised to Heaven and will come back again to kill Anti-Christ.