How to decrypt MD5 data

Hi,
I am Having the password of my application in MD5 format.I need to get the decrypted password.How to obtain that.
Thanks In Advance,

I'm making some assumptions based on the limited info you have provided...
You are trying to log into a webapp, the user supplies a username/password so you have both in plaintext.
You are getting the stored password from the webapp's storage and it is coming out in "MD5" format because it was digested when it was stored.
What you need to do is digest (aka hash) the user-supplied password using the MD5 algorithm and compare the result with what was taken from storage. If they match, the password is correct and let the user in, if not, reject the login attempt.
simplified steps:
- user foo registers, uses "password" as password, webapp digests the password using MD5 and gets: 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4
- user foo tries to login and supplies "cat" as the password, webapp pulls the stored password for foo out (286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4) and then digests what the user just passed in "cat" and gets 54b8617eca0e54c7d3c8e6732c6b687a
does 54b8617eca0e54c7d3c8e6732c6b687a = 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4? NO, don't let user in.
- user foo tries to login and supplies "password" as the password, webapp pulls the stored password for foo out (286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4) and then digests what the user just passed in "password" and gets 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4
does 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4 = 286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4? YES, let user in.

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