Tamara Gray – Tahajjud Waking Soul & Society #04 How to Pray Tahajjud
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The importance of habit and breathing at night is emphasized, with reciting the Prophet's words and setting up a prayer place. clothes and eye contact are also discussed, with the advice to make sure clothes are clean and keep eye contact during the prayer. Prayer habits include praying in front of large church or in front of a church.
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So how do you pray tahajjud?
How is it different than any other prayer? Well, first of all, let's
talk about timing. We know that Qiyam Al and tahajjud are kind of
interchangeable words, usually if you pray it after Aisha. So right
now we're talking about the time between salatul Aisha and salatul
Fajr. This is the night time between the nighttime prayer and
the morning prayer. Now if you pray before you sleep, we usually
call this qiama le and if you sleep and then wake up, we usually
call this tahajjud. How do you pray it? You've prayed salatul
Aisha, you've prayed your Sunnah raisha. And now, what if you're
going to pray amele, you can stand up and make intention for two
extra Raka, and you just pray two rakats. And then you can sleep, or
you can sleep after Aisha, or do do the dishes, or whatever you do,
and then you go to bed, wake up before Fajr. Now simplest, you can
wake up even 15 minutes before fashion and just make wudu and
pray to the qazam teud, and then you wait for the fajr prayer and
you pray. That's the simplest, that's the basic to the Kazakh
tehut. Now here we have also Salat al WITR. Okay, so wizard is our
very strong sunnah, and it's meant to be prayed at night. So the next
step we can say is we're going to wake up just a tiny bit earlier,
pray two rakaza, Sunnat, tahajjud, and then pray with her. Depending
on if you're praying at which madhhab you're praying, you're
going to pray all three rakats together, or two and then one. Now
what else can we do at night? Of course, first of all, there is
what has the Prophet Sallam told us about the numbers of Rakas to
pray at night? We have interest many different narrations that
talk about the number of Rakas. Abdullah bin Ahmed Allahu Anhu
tells us that the Prophet Sallam would pray 11 rakat. So that's
eight plus three, which is the eight three plus three, of which
eight being 2222,
Now mind you, the prayer of the Prophet sallam was not the prayer
of your regular Ahmad or Tala. It was a prayer that was long and
extended. So I we don't need to hold ourselves to eight. Rakaz,
what we need to think about is the time at night that we want to
pray. And I really want to emphasize thinking about habit
growing. So think about I'm going to do two records, I'm going to
start with two, then I'm going to do four, and then I'm going to do
six, and I'm going to do eight. Now maybe I'm doing eight. Maybe
now I want to expand each of these Rakas and make each one longer.
Maybe I'll just do four, but I'll make them longer, or maybe I'll do
something else. Here are a few ideas of things to do at night our
community. One of the things that our community is struggling with
is missed prayers. Many, many, many Muslims today, unfortunately,
have a lot of followed prayers that we have missed. One really
beautiful way to use the night is to make up your followed prayers
so to say, well, you know what? When I was 14, I should have been
praying, but I wasn't. When I was 15, I should have been praying
what I when I wasn't. I'm just going to do what I can to make up
these prayers. Now, for some people, they get really serious
about it. They print out a paper and they start marking off the
prayers so that they can reach a point where all these prayers are
made up. And they do it at night. That's a time when things are
quiet. You're if you're praying anyway, it's just easier, really,
to pray a full day of qudah rather than to the cast. But either way,
whatever you want to do, it is beneficial to pray at night. Now,
what should these Rakas look like when you are reciting Quran at
night? You recite the Quran out loud, you benefit from listening
to it yourself. Your recitation improves, and maybe you'll be like
one where the angels are coming down and listening to your
recitation. Now, of course, I know that not everyone's Quran
memorization is good enough to be able to do this at night. So in
the Shah reimath, you can set the musthave in front of you on you
can get a music stand, a cheap music stand from anywhere, really,
go to your local shop, better than those big online stores and buy
one, put it in front of you. Then you can get a musthave that is
bound with the spiral bound, a spiral bound must have that will
lay flat, or anyone that you that's big enough even an even a
tablet on a stand like that, and then it's right in front of you.
So you can pray a longer prayer. You can pray a whole page, or two
pages in that where you're slowly meditating in.
Thinking about these verses, listening to the verses as they
enter into your heart, and spending time and remember what
hola Farid Allahu Anhu told us about, the prayer of the Prophet.
Saw them that the standing was equal in time to the ROK was equal
in time to the sujood, to the movements of the prayer. Think
about that, especially at tahajjud. I know that when we're
busy in the day, sometimes our the whole prayer might be really
quick, oh, gotta run off to that meeting. Or maybe as you have to
go and cook dinner. Or maybe at Maghreb, you have bedtime things
going on with the children, or a Zoom meeting or something that's
nagging at you. But at night, even WhatsApp stops working well for
the most part, here is a time to have a balanced prayer to recite,
to settle in your qur, settle in your sujood. And one other really
important part of tahajjud is Doha. So we talked now about
recaten to the Kazu tu, dekaz. Tu, dekaz or or you can do kada yom, a
day of Kada. Or you can do any sort of special prayer. So I'm
just going to list some special prayers that you might be able to
think about. And I this is something fun. Make tahajjud
interesting for yourself. If you're a person who's not in love
with routine, do something different every night. One night
you can do one night, you can do eight rakaz. One night, do two
Rakas, reciting Surat bakaro, for example. One night, maybe you can
do salata sabia. Maybe one night you can do Salat al Hajja. If you
don't know what these are, you can look them up. You can Google them,
Alhamdulillah,
or look them up in your book.
The prayer at night is a time to really develop that relationship
with Allah. Spant, Allah, so having new things to do is a good
idea, but also take take note of the environment. Set up your
prayer place. The other day in my own house. I was doing some spring
cleaning, is actually with summer cleaning, but some summer
cleaning, and I was moving things around. And my daughter wasn't
home. She came home and she kind of looked at me with a panic.
Look, Mama, where's your prayer place? Because it wasn't I didn't
have one out at the at that moment, I said, don't worry. Don't
worry, I'm moving things over here, but get our children used to
seeing that there's a place in the house where we settle in our
prayer and also for yourself, is something about knowing where
you're going to go. Light a candle, spray some perfume in the
area, or incense, whatever it is that you like to bring beautiful
smells, make some cookies in the middle of the night. Make bring
some cinnamon rolls, and open it up so that smell is filling the
air. And make it a place of cleanliness. Make sure your prayer
clothes are clean. Make sure the prayer carpet is something easy to
sit on. If you are not able to do sujood you have knee issues or a
broken leg or something, then have a chair that's comfortable. Pay
attention to these things. Get the place ready, so that when you wake
up, your appointment, your meeting with your Lord, is prepared.
You're just beautifying yourself with Urdu, and you're going to
that prayer carpet. You begin with two light ricas, and you have
that, you do these two ricas and you they're very lightweight. That
means they're not very long. That's how the Prophet said, I'm
gonna do it. And then the next ones are longer. You've you've
warmed up, just like exercise, exercise of the heart, exercise of
the spirit, you've warmed up. And then you extend that, and then you
sit and make dua. And if you're a person who can't think about what
to make dua for, make notes during the day, and set that next to you
so that you can look at it. And remember to make dua for me.
Remember to make dua for our ummah. Remember to make dua for
your children, your family, for all of the people that you know
and don't know, the Allah pant Allah will guide, support, help,
cure, send His mercy down, forgive all of those that we love, those
that are close to us and those who are far and make tahajjud pray for
ourselves, that we make tahajjud a habit for us, that that prayer
becomes the thing we long for and Hope for and enjoy deeply. Allahu.
Salua, Salama, barakats, alhamdulillahi,