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Originally Posted by SportingBD
Curious to know.
If our destiny is already written, why is there a need to pray?
Let’s assume you pray for X, Y, Z in your life. And you get none.
But you prayed for those. If you had known you wouldn’t have got it would you pray?
I mean to say if the outcome would have been same what is the need to pray for XYZ?
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When you pray to God, does He respond? The answer is yes. He responds to every prayer. The Islamic belief is, God responds to your prayer in three different ways:
1. He gives you what you have asked for
2. He does not give you what you have asked for, but removes equivalent amount of harm from your life
3. He does not give you 1 and 2, but He will reciprocate you on the Day of Judgment
Is everything pre-destined? The answer is Yes. Whatever God has destined for you, will never miss you, and whatever God has not written for you, will never reach you.
Now the question comes, what is point of prayer or asking from God?
The question is similar to: If God is self sufficient, why do we need to worship Him?
The reason you need to pray to and ask from God is because you do not know what is destined for you. Thus, you show your need to God and God loves when we show our need to Him.
He is the only entity that loves to be asked for things and hates when He is not asked for, whereas His creation, conversely, gets irritated whenever asked for any favor.
Thus, have the best intention and though about God and ask from Him. Rest assured, He will give you what is best for you at the right time, and do not get tricked into philosophical discussion about the need for making prayer and its relationship with predestination.