Source: IMB Connecting, August 1, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cFarishta,\u201d a young, unmarried woman from a large Central Asian family, wanted to show \u201cMarcie\u201d [an IMB missionary] how to perform namaz, the Islamic ritual prayer done five times a day.<\/p>\n
Marcie shifted on the tea-stained couch and slowly shook her head as she told Farishta it wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n
Pointing to her cup of milk tea, Marcie asked, \u201cWhen I leave and you wash this cup, will you wash the outside and the inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll wash both the outside and the inside,\u201d Farishta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t wash the inside of the cup, will it still be dirty?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we pray, it is important to have clean hearts before God. When I pray, I am sharing my heart with God and then listening to how he wants me to pray. Sometimes how God wants me to pray is different than I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farishta looked at Marcie inquisitively, but changed the topic. A few minutes later, however, she brought up the topic again.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me just show you how to do namaz,\u201d Farishta insisted with a warm smile. Farishta did not understand why Marcie didn\u2019t want to do Islamic ritual prayers. Everyone in Farishta\u2019s community performs namaz.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, namaz prayer has a special reward from God if you do it. I can show you how to do it right now,\u201d Farishta said.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read the rest of the conversation<\/a>. Also see sidebar stories about praying for Muslim women and hosting a women\u2019s prayer tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: IMB Connecting, August 1, 2015 \u201cFarishta,\u201d a young, unmarried woman from a large Central Asian family, wanted to show \u201cMarcie\u201d [an IMB missionary] how to perform namaz, the Islamic ritual prayer done five times a day. Marcie shifted on the tea-stained couch and slowly shook her head as she told Farishta it wasn\u2019t necessary. … Continue reading CENTRAL ASIA: Share Tea, Share Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}