Our people have taken to praying to get rid of floods this year affecting a large part of Sindh province and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa in 2009. The President Asif Ali Zardari has exhorted people to pray for averting the floods. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said to a Baddoo tie the camels knee and then pray that it may not go away. He had let his camel roam untied depending on Allah that the camel may not go away. So the cardinal principle is that we must strive to stop the flood by constructing mega dams like Kalabagh Dam to contain the ravages of floods. The dam acts like a tied camels knee to control the movement of camel as also the fury of floods. The President would be well advised to act upon the injunctions of Islam as expounded by the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to settle a cardinal point of Qaza and Qadr. Prayers without action are never answered and such nations are doomed for ever. DR.MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI, Lahore, September 28.