My MacBook pro turn on for about one minute then it turn off automatically in this minute it took me to a gray screen how could I resolve this problem thanks

my problem is that I can't turn on my Mac when I turn it on it take me to a gray screen which have an apple in the middle of the page and under the apple there is a small loading box which can't reach to the middle of the box

It might be an issue with your HD.  Run Disk Utility from your installation disk and "Varify" your Macintosh HD to see if there any issues.  Hopefully you have a backup of your data.
After runing "Varify" see if Disk Utility's "Repair" can repair the problems if they exist.
If there's nothing wrong with the HD try "Repair disk Permissions"
Best of luck

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