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Questionable Teachings of Islam:

One Billion People Deceived

5) Praying at the wrong time of day results in beatings:

"...'Do not intend to do your prayer at either sunrise or sunset, for the horns of Shaytan
rise with the rising sun and set with its setting...' Umar used to beat people for that kind
of prayer."'
(Malik's Muwatta: Book 15, No. 15.10.48-49)

6) Muhammad prohibits looking toward heaven while praying:

"The Prophet said, 'What is wrong with those people who look towards the sky during the
prayer?' His talk grew stern while delivering this speech and he said, 'They should stop
(looking towards the sky in prayer); otherwise their eye-sight would be taken away."'
(Sahih Bukhari: Vol 1, Book 12, No. 177)

7) Beware of the single rider or a pair of riders who are travelling:

"The Apostle of Allah (pbuh) said: 'A single rider is a devil, and a pair of riders are a pair
of devils, but three are a company of riders."
(Sunan Abu-Dawud: Book 14, No. 2601)

8) Beware of being one who sleeps-in late:

"It was mentioned before the Prophet that there was a man who slept the night (until)
morning (after sunrise). The Prophet said, 'He is a man in whose ears (or ear) Satan had
urinated."'
(Sahih Bukhari: Vol. 4, Book 54, No. 492)

9) Early Bedouins were assured of a large dwelling place in paradise:

"The Prophet said, 'A tent (in Paradise) is like a hollow pearl which is thirty miles in height
and on every corner of the tent the believer will have a family that cannot be seen by the
others."'
(Sahih Bukhari: Vol. 4, Book 54, No. 466)

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