Night Wastages

 *Night Wastages*

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بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

"Night Wastages" could describe a night where someone fails to take advantage of opportunities, misses important events or experiences, or lets the entire hours in the night slip away without shopping for the hearafter.

My people!

It's agreed that "Sleep" is an important part of living and is a way of recharging our batteries to prepare ourself to continue our daily activities. But squandering the entire hours of the night sleeping without joining PRIVILEGED and SINCERE servants of Allah (worldwide) in establishing "Night Prayer" or "Tahajjud", suggests that the night have not been better spent or utilized in a more productive way.

Yes!

You might be good in series of acts of worship BUT if you are not amongst Muslims who CONSISTENTLY pray Tahajjud, then, sorry! Yes. Sorry because you are lacking something huge.

Evidence:

Salim bin

Abdullah bin 

Umar bin Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with them) reported, on the authority of his father, that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, “What an excellent man

Abdullah is! If only he could be performing optional prayers at night.” Salim said that after this, (his father) 

Abdullah slept very little at night. 📚 Al-Bukhari and Muslim

*Lessons from the above Hadith:*

This Hadith points out the excellence of

Abdullah bin 

Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) as well as the merits of establishing Tahajjud. It also tells us that it is permissible to praise someone in his presence if one is sure that he will not become proud due to that praise. Another aspect of this Hadith is that it's permissible to use someone else's positive lifestyles to motivate others.

This reminds me,

Today, Abdallah, the person I always use as example for Tahajjud will be 11years old in Tahajjud business. Yes. He did not miss waking up for Tahajjud in 11years EXCEPT for 3 nights. And it's not that he did not wake up at all for 3 nights in 11years. No!.. It's just that, he woke up very late. According to this my friend, he considered those 3 nights he woke up late for Tahajjud as a missed nights.. Allahu Akbar

Muslim Faithful!

Allah (swt) knows humans are so busy at day time, and because they will choose to do nothing in the night other than sleeping, HE blessed us with an act of worship that ONLY the PRIVILEGED will sacrifice few minutes, out of the hours of the night to do.

Therefore,

If u have not yet set ur phone alarm in a repeating mode, to wake u up for midnight nawafil (at least 2 rakaats) everyday till the end of ur life, pls do so immediately. Yes. Allah (swt) loves consistency in any act of worship. And waking up everyday for Tahajjud is not something difficult.. Let assume you wake up by 2AM, use 3minutes to perform ablution, 2minutes to get dressed, 5minutes to establish ONLY 2rakaat nawafil, 5minutes to make Du'a to Allah.. Total time spent = 15minutes. *Everything In 15minutes,* then, go back to catch up with sleep.