Ismail Londt – Dinner and Doubts. For those leading Tarwh. Suggestions reminders advice.

Bismillah, salaam, Alaikum, wahtullah.

Dinner and doubts. I know many Rafales who prefer not eating

before Tarawa,

perhaps because of nerves or because they fear they're going to

be too full and it'll leave them uncomfortable during their

rendition and enduring the salah. I understand I was there too many

years ago, but I've changed over the years, because I've realized

you need something in your stomach. You've been fasting for

12 hours or more, and you need something to draw energy from.

Otherwise you know what's going to happen. You may lose concentration

during your prayer and you may feel fatigued or you may feel

strained afterwards to take its toll, I stood behind a half with

ones who fainted in the mihrab, dehydrated and the nourished was

not looking after himself. You need something naturally sweet,

like fruits. You need some roughage and fiber like your

veggies, you need some protein for your muscles, fish, chicken, red

meat, something, not too much, but something one plate is sufficient.

Then eating after taraweeh, so that's that's a dinner issue.

Eating after taraweeh,

you get hungry and you must eat something. Okay, but the problems

are these two problems, two potential issues. You end up not

resting adequately, because if you eat late, your body works through

the night, digesting what you've eaten, and you get up tired and

not really

hungry and craving something for sehari becomes a formality.

Secondly, if you eat too late,

you may wake up with some acid reflux that you thought was a

start of a cold, like an itch in your throat or dryness in your

mouth and throat. You thought it was a nasal drip, but it's, it's

actually. It was actually, or is actually acid reflux, heartburn,

ENT specialists, ear, nose and throat specialist will tell you

have a Gaviscon after you've eaten late at night, or have an antacid

before you eat, or

if you are able to and prop yourself up with the upper part of

your body is higher than your the lower part, and sleep in that

manner, uncomfortable, but it saves you from any reflux. The

reflux is is what

attacks your chords and your vocal box and may affect you long term.

So try your best with dinner. Is concerned. Have something before

tarawih. You need the energy. And if you must have something after,

then minimal and have the gabascon or antacid or some some liquid,

something light, and do your best to nourish yourself appropriately.

Then where doubts are concerned, it is natural to doubt. Your brain

is an overdrive. It's intensely focused. So it's going to give you

some additional options. If you're doubting throughout the day or on

your way to the masjid or before your turn, take a musthave, take a

copy of the Quran, take your phone app, etc, and check that gives you

more confidence, because you saw what you are seeing and you know

what you are supposed to say. However, if a doubt arises, if you

get a doubt during your rendition in the Salah, then my advice to

you is go with what you first felt and thought to say. Your brain

gave you more options, but you were going to say something. You

were going to say. It made you say. It made you think, isn't it

possibly what you were going to say? Yala moon, for example. It

made you think, isn't it Tala moon, my advice is, 90% of the

time your first, your initial idea or plan or intention is the

correct one. If it happens to be incorrect, those behind you

will rectify you, and if they missed it, then after you check

for yourself and you learn through the experience, there's no perfect

reciter. Doubts are going to come if ever there was a perfect

reciting with bi Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, we are merely

trying to serve the book and do our best in that space. And the

younger you are in this relationship with the Quran, the

more prone you are to some doubts, which is normal, natural with time

over years and repetition, your ear becomes conditioned to the

particular flow. Your eye becomes conditioned, your mouth becomes

conditioned, and your brain becomes conditioned, and

hopefully, your heart becomes conditioned as to where the words

fit and how they fit and where they fit.

So don't worry. So dinner, consider having something before

tarawih and having less after, so you can wake up for sahore Nice

and hungry and then your doubts. Be gentle with yourself and handle

them. Manage them and take them as a learning curve, a learning

experience. Sha Allah, salaam, Alaikum.

Muhammad Sallallahu.