Let Your Computer Pray Fajr For You!

This was featured on the NPR show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" (my second favorite, after "A Prairie Home Companion").

There's a new online service that prays for you, currently only in English but they are working on other languages (presumably including Arabic). The site, still new, caters to Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in particular. For Muslims, you can subscribe to have the Fajr (pre-dawn) prayer prayed electronically on your behalf. (Please point your speakers toward Mecca to make sure God hears you.)

Now if they'd just begin to offer all five prayers, in Arabic, with your choice of suras. Of course, first they have to figure out that in any salat you need to recite a a sura in ADDITION to the Fatiha and that you need to do this more than ONCE per prayer!

And then you'd need the Shi'a package as well, with the Shi'a adhan and an option to have five times for prayer or combine them and only do three sessions (hey, maybe that would be cheaper...)

If you belonged to certain schools of Buddhism - I know, for example, that the Tibetan Buddhists do this - then having someone else 'automatically' send up prayers on your behalf would be valid (ie, the electronic version of the prayer flags and prayer wheels, which send prayers constantly out on the air). But there's no Buddhist option on the site, oh the irony.

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