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Abdulksaida,

I'm trying to point out that you 'trying to get good marks' may be done to try and impress your god - like a student would his teacher - but that is still selfish, as by trying to impress him you're trying to win his favour so that your afterlife is better than it might be if you didn't pray. Does that make sense to anyone else?

Nobody is able to tell us that there is anything after death, as they are dead and are unable to communicate with us. As soon as an angel (or some other heavenly being) speaks to me, personally, I will change my tune.

Wouldn't you rather do things to help the people who are here on earth with you, rather than trying to get good marks from your teacher? In the end, that is still only enriching your own life - unless you took those teachings and used them to the benefit of others.

So you're saying that you're both praying for your fellow palestinians as well as going to help them? How do your prayers help them? I'm curious, simply because it seems like your palestinians have so far had a pretty tough time. Same goes for the Jews: They've suffered for a long time, though I'm sure they prayed to their god throughout the whole of it. Something tells me that their suffering hasn't ended yet.

Do you see that the concept of wearing headscarves, growing beards, eating/drinking certain things - or going without as the case is sometimes - for some all powerful being whom hasn't been proven to exist (I do realise this being hasn't been disproven either), seems very counter-intuitive? It doesn't make very much sense at all to be honest.

Good luck with the book, I hope it's a good read.