{"id":2775,"date":"2022-01-14T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:55:01","slug":"night-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/night-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the\npillars of Islam is the Salah and beyond the mandatory prayers, we have been taught\nby the greatest of all creation SAWS, optional prayers that are of benefit to\nus. One of the greatest prayers that can benefit us is the prayer that is prayed\nin the final third of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam\nreminded us of this by referring to the 15, 16 and 17<sup>th<\/sup> ayat of Sura\nAs-Sajdah. It is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only \u02f9true\u02fa believers in Our revelation are those who\u2014when\nit is recited to them\u2014fall into prostration and glorify the praises of their\nLord and are not too proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They abandon their beds, invoking their Lord with hope and\nfear, and donate from what We have provided for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No soul can imagine what delights are kept in store for them\nas a reward for what they used to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers\nand sisters, we can see that the reward for this is beyond anything we can\nimagine or compare to in this life. This alone should compel us to get up for\nthe night prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside\nthis, the Quran also references this in Sura Al-Thariyat in ayats 15 to 17\nwhich are translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were\nbefore that doers of good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They used to sleep but little of the night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, we are plagued with things that worry us and make us\ndesire. Alongside that, we are all guilty of errors as Muslims and so the night\nprayer offers the opportunity to seek Allah\u2019s bounty and His mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside this\nthe imam spoke of a hadith in which the prophet SAWS spoke of the reward for night\nprayers. It is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cO people, extend greetings (saying Salam to each other),\nkeep relations with your kin, provide food (to people) and pray at night when\npeople are asleep and you will enter Paradise in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers\nand sisters, the night prayer is one of those optional acts of worship that has\nthe potential to transform both our life in this dunya and our fortunes in the\nhereafter. It is therefore important for us to attempt to instill this sunnah\nas a habit in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so this\nreminder concludes with 3 practical tips on how we can implement the night\nprayer as a habit into our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sleep on time. The temptation is to\nstay awake deep into the night to perform the night prayer. This is not the\ncorrect approach. It is better to sleep on time and then wake up to perform the\nnight prayer. On approach may be to wake up 10 minutes earlier than the start\nof Fajr as it allows you to pray the night prayer and then remain awake to\nperform the Fajr prayer as well. If sleeping at time is a challenge then one\npractical advice is to stop interaction with devices in the hour or 90 minutes leading\nup to sleep.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Start small and work your way up. Maybe\nbegin with the attempt to pray it once. Then once a fortnight or week, then twice\nweekly and so on. There is more benefit in gradually increasing the number of times\nas you stand a greater chance of sticking to it. Equally, the night prayer is\nprayed in units of 2 like any other nafl prayer so begin with just the minimum\n2 rakats and if you decide in future to increase that to 4,6,8 etc then you can\nwork gradually towards it<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is Sunnah to have a nap in the\nafternoon if your schedule allows it. This is 15-20 power nap to give you the\nrest needed for the rest of the day. If time permits then make this part of the\nday also which increases further the chance of night prayers becoming a\nsustainable habit.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers\nand sisters, the night prayer is an act of worship that has great power. Let us\naim to get this implemented as a habit so that we can be amongst the group of\npeople referred to in the following hadith in which the Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lord, the Blessed and the Exalted, descends every night\nto the lowest heaven when one-third of the latter part of the night is left,\nand says: Who supplicates Me so that I may answer him? Who asks Me so that I\nmay give to him? Who asks Me forgiveness so that I may forgive him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pillars of Islam is the Salah and beyond the mandatory prayers, we have been taught by the greatest of all creation SAWS, optional prayers that are of benefit to us. One of the greatest prayers that can benefit us is the prayer that is prayed in the final third of the night. 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