why people pray? are they not satisfied in this world?

Answer 1

Prayer is supposed to represent dialogue between a person and God. Instead it is used in times of hopelessness for people to ask for help. That doesn't mean to say God is not listening to all prayers.

In answer to your question, I suggest people are not satisfied with this world. Not while there is war, injustice, famine and oppression in parts. Prayer is not a substitute for caring and acting against these concepts but some people can find guidance and strength from prayer.

Answer 2

don't know about other people but when I pray I don't ask for anything....I pray to thank the good Lord for allowing me to live another day....to be able to spend another day with my family....for keeping me out of harms way

Answer 3

if you tried prayin about a problem and have an answer to ur prayer, maybe you'll realise why people pray. if you just asked this question because you need an answer, then you already have an answer to your second question.

good luck.

Answer 4

I pray for help and for peace and for my families needs and for unstanding of thing I do not unstand.Also if some ask me to pray for them I do without them even kowning it.

Answer 5

people prey in this world not pray.
prayers are for satisfaction only and are done for peace and thanx giving to God for the life given by him.
real prayers are nothing to do in this world.

Answer 6

Prayer Indispensable and Obligatory

The use of prayer is enjoined upon Bahá’ís in no uncertain terms. Bahá’u’lláh says in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas:—
Chant (or recite) the Words of God every morning and evening. The one who neglects this has not been faithful to the Covenant of God and His agreement, and he who turns away from it today is of those who have turned away from God. Fear God, O my people! Let not too much reading (of the Sacred Word) and actions by day or night make you proud. To chant but one verse with joy and gladness is better for you than reading all the Revelations of the Omnipotent God with carelessness. Chant the Tablets of God in such measure that ye be not overtaken with fatigue and depression. Burden not the soul so as to cause exhaustion and languour, but rather refresh it that thus it may soar on the wings of Revelation to the Dawning-place of proofs. This brings you nearer to God, were ye of those who understand.—Kitáb-i-Aqdas
‘Abdu’l-Bahá says to a correspondent:—“O thou spiritual friend! Know thou that prayer is indispensable and obligatory, and man under no pretext whatever is excused therefrom unless he be mentally unsound or an insurmountable obstacle prevent him.”
Another correspondent asked: “Why pray? What is the wisdom thereof, for God has established everything and executes all affairs after the best order—therefore, what is the wisdom in beseeching and supplicating and in stating one’s wants and seeking help?”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá replied:—
Know thou, verily it is becoming in a weak one to supplicate to the Strong One, and it behooveth a seeker of 93 bounty to beseech the Glorious Bountiful One. When one supplicates to his Lord, turns to Him and seeks bounty from His Ocean, this supplication brings light to his heart, illumination to his sight, life to his soul and exaltation to his being.

During thy supplications to God and thy reciting, “Thy Name is my healing,” consider how thine heart is cheered, thy soul delighted by the spirit of the love of God, and thy mind attracted to the Kingdom of God! By these attractions one’s ability and capacity increase. When the vessel is enlarged the water increases, and when the thirst grows the bounty of the cloud becomes agreeable to the taste of man. This is the mystery of supplication and the wisdom of stating one’s wants. (from a tablet to an American believer, translated by ‘Alí Kuli Khán, October 1908).
Bahá’u’lláh has revealed three daily obligatory prayers. The believer is free to choose any one of these three prayers, but is under the obligation of reciting one of them, and in the manner Bahá’u’lláh has prescribed.

Answer 7

most people need to believe in something other than themselves. i think praying is their way of meditating.