İslami İlimler Dergisi, vol.4, no.1, pp.275-294, 2009 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The prayer concept ls a very essential role to describe correctly the relationship of God and mankind. However, instead of this concept the faith concept was seen fatallstically more effective in Islamic theology. Yet. prayer concept has an antagonlstic meaning to fatallstic faith. There is no change in this explanation meanwhile the prayer basically ls a change call. The prayer has the meaning of the mankind noticing himself as an individual without any preliminary condtions. Because in the prayer which has a direct communication between the Creator and mankind the freedam of indlvidual to become important in contrary to fatallstic faith which all actions were predestined.