Factors That Facilitate Performance of the Night Prayer
Creator: Shaykh Ahmad Fareed
Date: 2007-07-25
Format: text
Identifier: http://www.islamworld.net/night_prayer.html
Language: en
Subject: prayer
Title: Factors That Facilitate Performance of the Night Prayer
Created on: Wed Jul 25 21:07:19 -0400 2007
Updated on: Wed Jul 25 21:07:19 -0400 2007
Version: 1
Abstract: ... tanding in prayer at night for five months due to a sin I had committed." Al-Hasan al-Basri, may Allah have mercy on him, when he would enter the market and heard all that people say in it from shouting and vain talk, he would say: "I think that these have bad nights." All types of sins contribute to hardness of the heart and prevent from performance of the night prayer, even though some sins are more harmful than others, such as eating what is haram. On the other hand, eating what is halal, like few other things, cleans the heart and guides it to what is good. This is best known by those who watch and control their hearts, due to experiencing it, after the Sharee`ah's testimony to this fact. This is why some of them rightly said, "How many bites have prevented performance of the night prayer! How many glances have prevented recitation of a Quranic soorah! Verily the slave eats a bite or does an action and because of it he is prevented from standing in performance of the sunnah (i.e. the night prayer)." Internal Factors 1. Protection of the heart from innovation, hatred towards Muslims and superfluous worldly concerns. One preoccupied with this world is una... [Full Article...]
