Reading the Riddle of the Needlessness of Prayer in the Corona Crisis With a Qur’anic Approach

Praying is a form of worship that, in the monotheistic worldview, is always considered to alleviate human’s mental and physical pain. Prayer may be one of the ways to deal with corona disease; yet at present, with the marginalization of religious issues and concepts and the magnification of medical solutions, there is the suspicion as to what is the need for prayer and spiritual advice if we attain physical health by observing health issues? The present research seeks to respond to this challenge with rational and narrative methods, library tools and information processing in a descriptive-analytical manner. One of the findings of this study is that five groups of verses of the Qur’an are to answer this suspicion. The first category consists of the verses indicative of the causal relationship between the phenomena, according to which the conditions of prayer as a component of cause and the obstacles to the fulfillment of prayer as the absence of an impediment contribute to the realization of the effect. The second category includes the verses indicating the elucidation of the meaning of prayer fulfillment, noting that the fulfillment of a prayer, in the sense of God’s answer to us, is definite, but this response does not mean the realization of what we want. The third category comprises the verses that indicate wisdom, since the Servants of God, whose hearts are enlightened by the light of faith and righteous deeds, do not utter a word of ungratefulness, even if they do not know the reason for the unfulfillment, for they know that one of the attributes of the Almighty God is wisdom. The fourth category covers the verses indicative of the tradition of testing so that human would realize his true position. The fifth category covers the verses indicating human’s inherent poverty, according to which the claim of not needing the Almighty God is contrary to the very text of these verses.