12/28/2023 0 Comments Fajr you snooze you lose![]() ![]() Recall them when Satan tries to entice you back to sleep at dawn when your alarm rings. Keep in mind the following virtues of the two units of fajr prayer. These tasks ensure that you wake up thoroughly (or suffer through the ringing alarm). If the above doesn’t work for you, try out an app like Mimicker Alarm that requires you to do certain tasks before it shuts off (for instance, take a photo of a red object). Keep it on top of the cupboard or inside a drawer (away from the bed) so that you have to get out of bed to shut it off. If you have a habit of hitting the snooze button until the sun rises, it is wise to never keep your alarm clock or phone within arm’s reach. Set your alarm well ahead of time: in this case, for 6:00 am and keep a five-minute snooze time so even if you hit the snooze button, the alarm rings after five minutes and you wake up on time. If you have a ten-minute snooze time and you hit the snooze button at 6:30 am, you’ll get up (if you do) at 6:40 am which is definitely too late. ![]() If sunrise is at 6:45 am and you are setting the alarm for 6:30 am, you are clearly going into the danger zone. Perform voluntary night prayers and supplicate to Allah until it is time for fajr. If you wake up (and it’s the last third of the night), don’t go back to sleep. ![]() Here are some tried and tested tips: 1- Sincere intentionīefore going to sleep each night, resolve to yourself that you will wake up for fajr the next morning for Allah’s pleasure and to add blessings (Barakah) to your day. So how do you ensure that you wake up well on time for fajr prayer? You feel exhausted the entire day plus the guilt of having missed an obligatory prayer gnaws at you constantly. If that person wakes up and celebrates the praises of Allah, one knot is undone, and when he performs ablution, the second knot is undone, and when he prays, all the knots are undone, and he gets up in the morning lively and in good spirits otherwise, he gets up in low spirits and is lethargic.” ( Bukhari)Īnyone who has missed a fajr prayer can easily testify that the ‘extra’ amount of sleep that you get does you no good. It’s certainly easy and we know as much from a hadith of Prophet Muhammad (sa) who said: “During your sleep, Satan knots three knots at the back of the head of each of you, and he breathes the following words at each knot: The night is long, so keep on sleeping. And yet, how easy is it to just keep pressing the snooze button at dawn until sunrise and end up missing the fajr prayer? Sound familiar? ![]()
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