The Power of Prayer with Hope and Patience

With any doubt, the prayer is not fulfilled. One needs a great patience and hope for the existence of the blessing. What comes when anybody faces ailment? Obviously, we move towards treatment from the doctors like go for aromatherapy, meditation and many other herbal and chemical therapies for the health. But do we ever think that the prayers are the spiritual characteristic that heals you from any kind of physical and mental illness?

So in this article, I am going to discuss the healing effects over the power of prayer with great love and patience. As it is scientifically also improved that prayers not only protect you from physical illness but it purifies your soul.

Prayer a healing power:

As a Muslim, we believe in the prayer’s power. Before any hardship to face, we supplicate towards prayer with much-attested hope. For instance, students pray more authentically and allocate the prayer with most fascinating desire to get a good result.

For Muslims, prayers are miraculous. They are sent to us as a blessing but not only for the Muslim’s community but for the mankind, belonging to any religion. It is also true that our prayer is stored for the next world as they don’t demolish if we don’t achieve what we acquired at the time of our need. Those supplicate are not rejected for sure.   

"When my servants ask you concerning me, (tell them) I am indeed close (to them). I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on me." [2:186]

Always remember that Allah never rejects your supplicates even he accepts calling of a non-Muslim. Thus it is also proven besides religious integrity the prayer’s power is factual scientifically.

Scientifically proved evidence:

According to Duke University’s Harold G. Koenig, M.D., studies have found that people when to get sick prayers help them getting better and even prayers prevent people from getting sick.

According to different researches, scientifically it is proven that the people who pray more their mental and physical health relish more.

A power of Hope for healing:

Hope is one of the strongest pillars that supports prayer. Even in Islam it is well recommended to never lose hope as disappointment over prayer as it is the foundation of Hope and Allah can change everything in a minute.

As said in Quran,

…And whosoever fears Allah…He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. The Holy Quran [65:2-3]

 …After a difficulty, Allah will soon grant relief. The Holy Quran 65:7

It is also proven scientifically that those who live longer and happier life they stay more hopeful over the negative occurring thing. In the book “The Anatomy of Hope” written by Jerome Groopman, relates that expectation and belief are the key elements of hope and these two factors can block the pain. As hope produce a positive effect on physiological processes like respiration, circulation and related sensory metabolism.

Patience healing power:

Patience is the real virtue of Islam and it emphasizes greatly over patience. It brings great fruits to our life as shown with the practical example of our Beloved Prophet (PBUH) life. On one more place, it is said that as,  

"Verily, Allah is with the patient" Surah AL-Baqarah: 153

And utterly we have also seen that history of Islam gloriously relies on the abundant examples of patience.

One place it is said in Quran,  

And the Messengers were belied before you, but they endured patiently when they were belied and were persecuted until our help came to them. And there is none to change the words of Allah, and the news of the Messengers has already come to you. (Sura Al-Anaam Ayat 34)

The people with great patience will be rewarded in the life and the hereafter as well as we have seen that people with patience get larger rewards. People with less patience complaint about more problem in life as compared to the people who live with patience. Hence, patience is one the reducing stress factor, therefore, it is named as the shield against the oriented stress issues of health.