Subject: [Masjid Tucson] Submission weekly reminder

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Peace be upon you,

All the messengers brought the same message—worship God alone. Each messenger would have taught his followers how to pray correctly so that they could fulfill that commandment. Their prayers would be devoted to only God. No messenger would have encouraged his people to mention his name in any way in the prayers.

[Quran 3:79] Never would a human being whom GOD blessed with the scripture and prophethood say to the people, "Idolize me beside GOD." Instead, (he would say), "Devote yourselves absolutely to your Lord alone," according to the scripture you preach and the teachings you learn.

Yet, most Christian prayers begin and/or end in Jesus's name, something he would never have condoned. And we can see this clearly in the New Testament. In Matthew chapter 6, verses 5 through 13, Jesus tells his disciples how to pray and gives them the words to say.
9 "This, then, is how you should pray:
    "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done,
   on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

This "Lord's Prayer" has sufficient similarities to the Fãtehah that we can reasonably assume it was a prayer Jesus asked his followers to recite. Over time the words were changed but the meaning was not lost. We can be thankful that we have the mathematical proof that the prayer we recite 17 times a day is the prayer given to us by God through His messengers. Praise God.


References:
The Lord's Prayer, https://masjidtucson.org/submission/perspectives/religions/the_Lord_prayer.html
The Key (Al-Fãtehah), https://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/books/sp/2004/jan/page1.html

Peace.