{"id":9010,"date":"2018-07-19T06:13:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:13:40","slug":"tips-for-getting-fajr-dawn-prayer-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2018\/07\/19\/9010\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for getting Fajr (dawn) prayer done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you wake up for fajr? And I don\u2019t mean wake up for a day or two, but how do you keep waking up for fajr, constantly, everyday, without fail.
\nThere\u2019s loads & loads of websites online giving you tips and advice on how to wake up early. But our focus is not on worldly tips (which should be taken by all means, part of tying the camel;, our focus is on the spiritual means.
\nMy dear brothers\/sisters, every day when you read Surat Al-Fatiha, at least 17 times a day, you recite the verse \u201cYou Alone we Worship, and You Alone we Seek Help from\u201d: You want to worship Allah? \u201cYes!\u201d You need His help then. You want to wake up for Fajr? \u201cYes please!\u201d Guess what, you need Allah. You cannot, I repeat, cannot, wake up for fajr without Allah\u2019s help. Now ask yourself the question, what can I do to show Allah that I truly and utterly want to wake up for fajr?!<\/strong>
\nHave you ever had days when you\u2019re about to go to sleep, and you have this deep feeling that you\u2019ll definitely wake up for fajr? And have you ever had days when you know for certain that you\u2019ll oversleep? Imagine the two scenarios, which I\u2019m sure some of us have gone through:<\/p>\n

Scenario 1:<\/strong>
\nYou feel high with Eman, you\u2019ve prayed your witr, read some Quran, and even though you\u2019ve got 2 hours to sleep till fajr, you\u2019re certain you\u2019ll wake up because you\u2019ve set your mind, heart and body to make sure you wake up. In fact, sometimes you keep on waking in the middle of the night thinking it\u2019s fajr time out of fear that you\u2019re going to miss it. If you haven\u2019t experienced this, think of a time when you had to catch an early flight or a bus\/train, and think of how your mind, heart and body were switched on, and it doesn\u2019t matter what time you slept, you\u2019ll wake up.<\/p>\n

Scenario 2:<\/strong>
\nThere are days when deep down you really don\u2019t want to wake up, you hope that you \u201coversleep\u201d so you feel less guilty about it, and Allah may have mercy upon you and still wake you up, and that\u2019s when the battle with the snooze alarm starts and the classic shaytaan trick \u201cjust 5 more minutes\u2026\u201d begins.<\/p>\n

How do we maintain scenario 1 everyday?<\/strong>
\nWith these 2 scenarios, one details a feeling deep down inside that you\u2019re definitely waking up, and another where you know you won\u2019t wake up because deep down inside you don\u2019t want to and you\u2019re not ready to take the fight against shaytaan of waking up in the morning.
\nBelow I detail some practical and spiritual tools, that will help you in achieving scenario 1 all the time inshaAllah:<\/p>\n

Spiritual Tools<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Know who Allah is:<\/strong> This is the key and number one tool to waking up for Fajr. If you know Who you\u2019re worshipping, and you know that He requests that you get up in the morning and pray to Him, you\u2019ll wake up. It\u2019s our lack of understanding of who Allah is that makes us slump into scenario 2 all the time. Know your Lord, that\u2019s key.
\n\u2022 Sincerity:<\/strong> Be sincere about waking up for fajr, don\u2019t just say to yourself: \u201cInshaAllah, it\u2019ll be nice if I wake up for fajr\u201d be sincere about it, and say: \u201cI will wake up for fajr\u201d I find it useful sometimes to talk to myself about it before going to sleep and say: \u201cI will wake up for fajr, i don\u2019t care how, but I\u2019ll definitely will!\u201d
\n\u2022 Wudu before sleep<\/strong>: Ibn Abbas reported that Allah\u2019s Messenger said: \u201cPurify these bodies and Allah will purify you, for there is no slave who goes to sleep in a state of purity but an Angel spends the night with him, and every time he turns over, [the Angel] says, \u2018O Allah! Forgive Your slave, for he went to bed in a state of purity.\u201d Do you think that such a person would be left to oversleep and miss fajr?
\n\u2022 Witr Prayer + Dua:<\/strong> Make sure you don\u2019t sleep before performing your witr prayer, and supplicate to Allah during your Witr prayer to help you wake up for Fajr, remember, \u201cYou Alone we Worship, and You Alone we Seek help from\u201d
\n\u2022 Read some Quran<\/strong>: Ending the day with verses of the Noble Quran will sure put your focus straight on waking up for salaat. Prophet Muhammad used to recommend that we recite Surat Al-Sajdah, and Surat Al-Mulk (Chapters 32 and 67) before going to sleep.
\n\u2022 Remember Allah before you go to Sleep:<\/strong> This is part of the first point I made, and you can find all the supplications you need to recite before going to sleep here. You might need to print them off and read them off paper at first, but within a week or two you should be able to memorize them fully and just recite them before dozing off.
\n\u2022 Remember the rewards attached to Fajr Salaat:<\/strong> from being safe from being a hypocrite, to having light on the day of judgement, to being under Allah\u2019s protection the whole day, to having laziness removed from us that day and being productive. Remember these rewards and you\u2019ll sure wake up.<\/p>\n

Other tools I use that help me a lot:<\/strong>
\nAsk a friend\/family member to wake you up: This is the number one rule for me to wake up. Get a family, friend, spouse to wake up, and help each other, if you get up before them, don\u2019t be selfish and make sure they are awake too.
\n\u2022 1.5 hours sleep rule:<\/strong> Aaaah.. here\u2019s a secret trick, there\u2019s a theory in the Sleep science that says that every human being completes an entire sleep cycle in 1.5 hours, therefore, if you can wake up at the end of a multiple of 1.5 hours (e.g. 1.5 hours, or 3 hours, or 4.5 hours..etc) you\u2019ll wake up fresh and rejuvenated. Otherwise, you\u2019ll wake up lazy. So if fajr is at 5am, and you sleep at 12am, make sure you set your alarm at 4.30am, because that gives you 4.5 hours to sleep. (Of course, if you take 1\/2 an hour to fall to sleep, you might need to add that into your calculation).
\n\u2022 Nap in the afternoon:<\/strong> Another lifehack, taken from the Sunnah and recommended by many, make sure you nap in the afternoon, for just 20 minutes! yup, just 20 minutes. Trust me, for the past 3 years, I\u2019ve mastered the 20 min nap, and everytime it never fails to rejuvenate me. If you need to train yourself to nap for that long, I highly recommend www.pzizz.com, a wonderful software that trains you for these short naps, it\u2019s what I used to train myself.
\n\u2022 Promise yourself a grand breakfast if you wake up for Fajr:<\/strong> I\u2019m a breakfast guy, so if I wake up early, I sure like to have a big breakfast. Sometimes i look forward to my breakfast from the afternoon before, and just like a small reward, treat yourself to a massive breakfast in the morning. It\u2019ll definitely set your day straight as well inshaAllah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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