How often do you recite your creed?

Question

La Ilaha Illallah Muhammadur Rasulallah......

I know many people who just recite it occasionally. My day begins and ends by reciting it and the meaning of my life revolves around it.

Answer 1

I say the creed daily. It does open the eyes daily to life's meaning.

Answer 2

Oo Arabic. I prefer Syriac myself:
Isho` itho MaHyan MeshiHa, Marya!

I do not recite anything, especially not a creed. I like poetry, but when praying or worshipping God, I think it is better to say a few clumsy words of my own in prayer or song, than to recite someone else's poetry.

In Christianity, creeds were first invented by committees c. 300 AD and they were used to persecute those who held different beliefs, including the original beliefs of Christians, (if you think that is crazy, then so do I). People were then murdered, disinherited or put out of their homes if they would not recite the creed. Then, just to keep everyone annoyed, they kept changing them!!!

Answer 3

There is no measure of time between reciting my creed. My creed is my life and my life is my creed, for all the days of my life, from beginning and to end.

Since you used Islam as an example: Is there any time in your life that the Allah (God in English) is not one and Muhammad is not his prophet? The creed is an outward expression of an inner truth that Muslims live by. Reciting the creed is only a reminder of that inner truth.

Answer 4

if by Creed you mean oath, then every time I need to reenforce my thoughts and beliefes.


Goddess Bless.
Blessed Be.

Answer 5

I don't recite anything, and I'm as free as a bird.

Answer 6

see, I knew I was living a sheltered Life...... Ok, who in here, passed out the creed and didn't tell me about it? come on now,, on up to it... punishment will fit the crime...

Answer 7

Daily, as I pray the Rosary daily.

Answer 8

Does God’s Word authorize such repetitious praying? No. Jesus said: “But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. So, do not make yourselves like them, for God your Father knows what things you are needing before ever you ask him.” How well Jesus knew the human tendency to want to repeat prayers! And, in view of his warning, the fact that the use of the rosary is widespread among the people of the nations carries no weight with it whatsoever!—Matt. 6:7, 8.

Apologists for the rosary try to rob Jesus’ words of their effect by pointing to Revelation 4:8, in which the word “holy” appears three times: “Holy, holy, holy.” But it is quite different from repeating one word twice in a prayer for a total of three words to repeating the forty words in Hail Mary fifty-two times for a total of 2,120 words, not to say anything of the other repetitions involved. Repeating a thing twice for emphasis is done throughout the Scriptures and makes sense. Thus when Jesus was faced with his greatest test he prayed three times to Jehovah his Father. Likewise Paul three times asked God to remove a certain “thorn in the flesh.” There is nothing, however, in the Scriptures to indicate that Jesus and Paul had memorized these prayers or had used them at some other time in their lives. These prayers were born out of the serious trials they were undergoing.—Matt. 26:39-44; 2 Cor. 12:7.

But trying to remember all the various recitations required in saying the rosary and to repeat them in their proper order makes saying the rosary a memory test rather than a spontaneous expression of heartfelt prayer. Besides, one’s mind cannot help but wander when one has to say the same forty words fifty-three times in one prayer. Such repetition is but a variation of the prayer wheel of certain Oriental religions. It consists of a cylinder in which written prayers are placed. Each time the cylinder is revolved the prayers in it are supposed to have been repeated.

Nor is that all. The Hail Mary is said nine times as often as the Paternoster, or “Our Father,” fifty-three times as compared with six times. Is the prayer composed by men and directed to Mary nine times as important or effective as the prayer taught by Jesus and directed to God himself? The fact is that, look where we will in the Scriptures, not once do we read of anyone seeking access either to God or to Jesus by way of Mary

Answer 9

My religion doesn't have a creed. We just live by the Bible.

Answer 10

"I don't believe in a diety." I recite this daily--- if not to others, then to myself. Quite comforting.