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- Adjust a good alarm which may cost you 15 dollars
- Arrange some phone cells to help other wake up and they help you also
- Sleep early as much as you can and try to start your day after fajr prayer
Allah promised clearly those who succeeded in their test to enter paradise. However, most of us fail every day in this test. This is the test of fajr prayer in congregation in the mosque.
The prophet said: (one who has prayed two cool time prayers, i.e. fajr and Asr prayers shall enter paradise), another Hadith states: (A person will not be sent to hellfire who has prayed before the sunrise and before the sunset).
So, those who really want to enter paradise and fear hellfire should be careful in praying these precious prayers.
None said that this prayer is easy, actually this is the most difficult prayer in all the prayers.
How many people in New Orleans fail in this test every day?
Let's look to these statistics
| Jumaa | Fajr
|
Abu-Bakr As-Sidiq | 300 | 11 |
Islamic center | 200 | 11 |
Tulane | 50 | 3 |
At-Tawbah | 60 | 3 |
Ar-Rahim | 60 | 2 |
Total | 670 | 19 |
Percentage 3%
If those who do not pray juma included, percentage will drop to less than 1%
Again before going to details, let us consider these observations
1- A lot of Americans woke up very early to walk with their pets in the early morning
2- We return from fajr prayer, then 1-10 is too busy, sometimes blocked, this is at 6 A.M (mostly non-Muslims).
3- I attended one conference this year in Orlando, there was a regular lecture every day for six days at 6 days at 6 A.M, the number of attendants was at least 3000 physicians (mostly non-Muslims)
4- Let's compare the efforts of the rejecters of worldly life to the efforts of the believers towards their afterlife.
5- It is obvious that non-Muslims are taking their worldly life seriously more than the believers
6- Let us compare the reaction of the believers toward the order of their bosses and the orders of Allah
7- If your boss ordered you to come early than usual in one day and he will give you a big reward one hundred dollars per hour, will you go early or you will sacrifice in the cause of sleep?
8- Whatever the reward of your boss is, the reward of Allah is greater, as the prophet Muhammad is reported to have been said: (the two rakahs before dawn are better than the world and all that it contains).
9- Again brothers, the fajr is a difficult test and because of this it was a good test to differentiate the believers from the hypocrites, the Prophet says (there is no prayer that is harder or more difficult to the hypocrites than the fajr and Isha` prayers, and if they would know their virtues, they would certainly join them, even if they had to go crawling)
10- Is that permissible? Yes brothers: the true believer will come to fajr prayer even if he was obliged to come crawling. The reward is huge, as the prophet says: ( a person who prayed Ishaa in congregation id deemed to have spent half the night in optional prayer, and the one who joins the fajr prayer in congregation is considered to have spent the whole night in optional prayer)
11- Fajr prayer constitutes a fundamental part in the personality of the believers
12- In the battle of Tustur, the Muslim army was obliged to fight at the fajr prayer time, so they prayed the fajr after the sunrise, and this was just one time in a huge number of battles and they won the battle. However, Abu-Musa Al-Ashari was very upset because of losing this prayer at that single day, he said: Allah has made us victorious, but we lost the fajr prayer, and I do not like to have the whole world in exchange of this prayer instead.
13- Argument: we sleep late, if we woke up early, it will be difficult for us to concentrate in our work and Allah wants us to be perfect in our works. Dear brother, you cannot choose between the orders of Allah as He says: (it it only a part of the book that you believe in and do you reject the rest). Now, you have no options, as Allah also says: (it is not for a believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision)
14- Dear believers, do not expect that Allah will grant us the victory and leadership of the world without obeying His orders. (if you help Allah, He will help you)
15- Dear believers, we must understand that the way to victory is passing by fajr prayer. This is a fundamental sign of those who claim that they want to strive in the cause of Allah. I hope all of us now are understanding the importance of fajr prayer, however the desire alone is not enough, it should be by the good deed. So let us be practical, and see what the factors that may help you in doing this valuable worship.
- First: you must have a firm intention to obey Allah whether they are
- Second: you must know that this is a difficult job, however, Allah will make it easy for those who want to do it.
- Third: you have to take the correct means to wake up early at least 20 minutes before fajr prayer to be able to catch it at the masjid, this includes:
So brother, let us make it a challenge for ourselves and the satan. Imagine that you are protected by Allah throughout your day and that Allah is satisfied by you.
Dear brother, if we truly want to improve our condition, we should start in changing our selves, that Allah says: (verily Allah will never change condition of a people until they change what is in themselves)
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