[Ali Imran]

I will tell you what it is!
You are just talking to God.. you can talk abt the righteous slaves in heaven and earth...you can talk abt muh and your mother and pray for them...
This is definitely not a formal prayer to God alone!
If it is not formal...then why you need to go wash up..spray perfume?

I repeat. We pray only TO Allah. Our prophet allows us to pray for ourselves and others too. We are not doing something that is against the teachings of our prophet.

As for you, Jesus said to pray to the Father directly but you disagree and listen instead to other people on how to pray.

The Solah is very formal. It is an awesome spectacle when you get 2 million Muslims from all corners of the world doing solah in unison. Have you seen it at Makkah? Everybody knows what to do and the result is rather beautiful to watch, 2 million people bowing and prostrating in unison. In the ranks, there are billionaires and poor people. They all stand shoulder to shoulder proclaiming only God is great.