A Comparative Glance At the Qur'an and the Gospel

Worships

The Holy Quran says in this regard as follows:

" Verily Prayer is, (imposed) upon the believers as (a) timed Ordinance." (An-Nisa, 103)

The Gospel has also emphasized on the prayer in several verses:

" He was praying in a certain place and, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray as Johh, too, taught his discipels. He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: ‘Father, your name be held holy. Your kingdom come. Daily grant us our food for the coming day. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation." (Luke 11:1-4)

" And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the street corners to be seen by the people." (Matt. 6:5)

The Gospel of Barnabas, too, has repeatedly referred to the issue of worshipping in the following verses:

" Whe he had finished the prayer of dawn... ." (106:198)

"... For in every idle word man sinneth, and our God blotteth our sin by reason of prayer. For that prayer is the advocate of the soul; prayer is the medicine of the soul; prayer is the defence of the health; prayer is the weapon of faith; prayer is the bridle of sense; prayer is the salt of the flesh that suffereth it not to be corrupted by sin." (119:10-16)

"Make prayer unceasingly... ." (36:8)

Supplication (Du’a)

In this regard, the Quran has the following verse:

" Call ye on your Lord, humbly and secretly; Verily loveth not God the transgressors. "(Al-A’raf, 55)

And the following verse is from the Gospel attributed to Matthew: Ask and it will be given you; seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and the seeker finds, and to him who knocks it is opened." (7:7-8)

And the following verse is from the Gospel attributed to Mark:

" I tell you, therefore, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours." (11:24)

Fasting

The following Quranic verse is in this regard:

"O' ye who believe! Fasting has been ordained unto you as it was ordained unto those before you so that ye guard yourself (against evil)." (Al-Baqarah, 183)

The Gospel includes the following verses:

" When you fast, do not be sad-faced like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show others their fasting. I assure you, they have received their full reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that no one except your heavenly Father who is there in the secet place may notice your fasting. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." (Matt. 6:16-18)

" John's disciples and the Pharisees were observing a fast; so they came and said to Him, ‘Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?' Jesus replied to them, ‘Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is in their company? So long as the bridegroom is with them they can not fast, but a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then will be their day to fast." (Mark 2:8-20)

"... Whereupon Satan will seek to cause that he shall not fast in any wise, under pretext of sickness... ." (Barnabas 107:17)

But the way of performing prayer and fasting has not been elucidated in the Christianity even briefly in the present Gospels and so its difference with that of Islam can not be determined. In other words, the Gospels just show the existence of prayer and fasting in the Christianity (without elaborating the way of performing them).