Tamara Gray – Tahajjud Waking Soul & Society #01 Why Tahajjud

People ask me, Why tahajjud, why are you always talking about this?

It's such a small part of life, such a small part of worship life.

Why do you talk about this? Talk about other things. Talk about

recitation of Quran. Talk about charity. Talk about fasting. And

of course, all of these other things are very important, but

tahajjud has a unique

reflection or a unique importance that we understand if we really

carefully read the Quran and carefully think about the words

and lifestyle of Rasulullah.

If we think about the concept of nafila, what does nafila mean?

Nafila is something extra. We know we have to do the fuddled. We know

that the Furu Darlene is very important. And many, many people

are struggling with the fuddled. I know this. But when we ask

ourselves, what is nafila, we can look to the Quran to understand

Allah, SWT. Allah says, omin ele Fatah, be He. Na feel it alaq AASA

in here, but athakara, Bucha, makam and Mahmoud, ah, so nafilit

and luck means it's nafila. So this is something that is nafila.

This, of course, is as this is something special for rasulallah,

something special for his ummah, that we have this unique time at

night that is nafila. What does nafila do? Nafila brings us to the

love of God, and this, ultimately, is what we all need. And so then

we look around, what is the nafila that we should be doing, and we

discover that Allah Himself has described nafila as tahajjud.

Okay, so now we need to get up, and in other places, in the Quran,

kung malail, ilakalilan, get up at night, except for a little so we

begin to understand this night time is for sleep and for worship.

And when we begin to understand and think about that, we begin to

walk a different path. The importance of teheshjood

comes back to the importance of really what it means to be human,

because we are created to be ibad Allah, to be of the worshipers of

God, and we have a whole life of busyness and running around and

rushing and coming at night exhausted, and we're looking for

rest in 100 places, but the real rest isn't is at night. The real

rest is standing before God at night. The real rest is standing

at the in the last third of the night, standing before Allah um

lave. Stand up at night. Stand up at night. To be of the ibadar

Rahman Al ladini lira. Be him such a number. Let's think about that

first for a minute. To be of the worshippers of the Merciful. And I

want to talk a little bit about what that means to become of the

worshippers of the Merciful, but to be that person we'll talk about

that maybe later, is also to define this as the one you betun

means to settle. If you think about the word beit, a house, a

place you settle, you be Dun, to settle in, settle into worship. It

becomes something that you're at home with, something that's your

you settle your heart in. And it's very interesting the verse,

because it begins with such Adan so you be doing in prostration,

prostration to God, in great humbleness to God, and then Priya

man. And and think about that when we talk about the of prayer, when

we think about what's the most important part of the prayer, if

you have bad knees, or if you have an injury, you break your leg, or

something like that, what do you have to do? We have to make sure

about priyam. We have to make sure about the standing up at at night,

right? Or, excuse me, the standing in prayer, which is the standing

at night, the establishing of the prayer, and sujood is the thing

that if we break your like or something we don't have to do yet

in this verse, such then

sujood comes first.

Why? Because, not only in action, because the nighttime prayer is

not only an action of the body,

it's not only an action of the forehead kissing the ground, it's

also an action of the heart.

And tahejud is the place where our heart wakes up and where our heart

rests, and so when we begin to develop a habit of tahajjud, na

philet and luck, na philet and luck, this nafila, this special

thing that's not a follow. No, no, it's not obligation. Think about

your children. When you ask your children to do something that is

an obligation and they do it, you're happy. But what if they

come and do.

Something extra, maybe you ask your kids to unload the dishwasher

and you come upstairs, or you come into the kitchen, you find out

they unloaded the dishwasher and they did the dishes. Of course, in

a way, it's a silly comparison, but as parents, we know how that

feels. You didn't have to nag for the dishwasher to get unloaded.

You didn't have to fuss about all of these things, about whatever it

is to take the garbage out, or whatever the thing is. And on top

of that, they did something extra. Imagine if you're a son or

daughter, after you told them take the garbage out, you discovered

they washed the garbage tins. Allah, you might faint, fall on

the chairs. What in the world was that? But certainly you'll, you'll

look at that child with the eye of of appreciation, of love, nafila

is the thing we do that is extra for the one that we worship.

Nafila is not just the fad. It's standing up to do that extra

thing. And tahajjud is the most important nafila. It's the most

important sunnah. I mentioned all of these other beautiful things

that we have to do, and all of these other things we want to

think about, I should say other things that help us on the path,

fasting, sadaqah, praying sunnah, prayers around our followed,

prayers giving kind and good words to people. Oh, this is important,

but

helps us to grow individually, to become of those who Allah loves

and also as a community, think about that verse, becoming of

those who have makam and Mahmud a elevated status. What is the

status of our community today? Not so great. We have pretty bad

PR, but we can find good PR on our prayer carpet at night. We can

through the worship of God, through deep worship of God, and

even quick, even Swift, even a couple of minutes before Fajr,

worship of Allah, span taala, we can elevate not only our personal

status with God, not only our personal status with dunya, but

the status of our Ummah, as was the promise to Rasulullah,

sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, as is a promise to us. The importance

of tahajjud is in walking the path of becoming of the Beloved,

of becoming of those who have a heart that it's easier to love

with his heart. Stand up at night and follow in the path, listening

to the Prophet Sallam when he was asked, what are the best of deeds?

If Shu Salam, give greetings of peace. Feed people welcome. NASA

niam, stand up at night while people are sleeping. Let us all

together. Stand up at night while people are sleeping, and as we

look out of our window, pray for every single one of them, that

everyone might take advantage of these most beautiful moments and

grow love flowers in our hearts that bring us near and close and

holding to The path we are meant to be on. Mohamed, you,