Tamara Gray – Tahajjud Waking Soul & Society #05 Benefits of a Tahajjud Habit
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The speakers discuss the need for a study on the effectiveness of sleep studies in helping people understand the need for worship. They also mention a book called The Power of Habit, which describes a culture where people pray to hed efficious practices to achieve success. The importance of having a keystone habit, being organized and patient with oneself, and not giving up too much sleep until one day brings everyone together is emphasized. The importance of sleep is emphasized, and the need for sleep is discussed. The speakers also discuss a study on people struggling to sleep after waking up, and how sleep can improve their sleep habit.
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When I read sleep studies, I really read them with wonder. I'm
not wondering about the study. I'm wondering about what would happen,
what would happen if we did a sleep study
on the early Ummah, the early community.
What would it? What would it tell us about the need for sleep versus
the need for worship?
I know there are some studies out there, because people have sent
them to me around how meditation affects the heart, and how
meditation is healthy and replenishing for the body, if I'm
not mistaken, equal to or even more so than sleep. And so what
about tahajjud? Would not tahajjud be the same that thing that the
Prophet sallallahu, Sallam spent so long in, wouldn't it also
replenish us? Wouldn't it also be that thing that we need to give us
the strength and well being and spiritual health that we are all
seeking and looking for I believe so. I believe if we could do those
tests, and we could do a sleep study where we had those who did
not pray to hazard, and we would look at how much sleep they
actually need, and then we were able to compare them later with
those who prayed to haju and see how much sleep they need, I
believe they would need much less sleep, and I believe they would be
more energetic. They would have more peace, their temper would be
less less easily tripped. Tahajjud is a keystone habit. I learned
about this term keystone habit from a book called The Power of
habits. A keystone habit is something that begin. You begin
here and it it's like a waterfall of other habits that follow it. So
there's a really good story in the book The Power of Habit, about a
company that manufactured aluminum, and a new CEO took over
the company, and he decided that the keystone habit of the company
was going to be safety. Now you'd think that the new habit for
success successful sales would be marketing, or would be the
product, or would be something like that, but he decided it was
going to be safety. And because of that keystone habit of safety in
the factory for aluminum. Everything came up roses. As you
can say, their sales went up, their losses went down. Everything
really became in the business world, exactly as he had hoped.
Now in the spiritual world, what is that thing? It's tajjud people.
People argue with me about this. They say, why tahajjud? No, it
should be something else. Because if you pray to hed, you're not
going to miss Fajr. If you pray to hedgehog and you pray Fajr, you're
not going to miss the not going to miss asud. All of a sudden, the
struggle to make the furud happen,
that struggle isn't there, because the keystone habit is tahajjud.
With the keystone habit of tahajjud as well, if you have
fasting to make up now you're up, you can house and you can start
fasting. If you're getting up at tahejun, you become more organized
in your day, because the blessing of the Ummah is in the morning,
and so now you're up early. You've prayed, you've prayed your fajr
prayer. Maybe you got a little whatever you needed to get done at
home. Maybe you got your exercise in. You took care of whatever you
need to do. You're off to work. Maybe you cleaned the entire
house. You went off to work. I remember one of my teachers used
to say by 6am Daud morning, vikkit, morning with it, morning.
Quran, clean up the whole house. Six o'clock. Everything is done.
Now you're ready to go out and serve the community, or do your
job, or go to work or whatever it is. Take care of the eight
children at home. Masha Allah, whatever it is that you have to do
that early morning time, that habit, that keystone habit, that
habit, will change your life. It will change your life. And this
concept of a keystone habit, so you start with this as your time,
and now you can start with a short one, like, if you say to yourself,
well, I can't do that. That's too much. Start with two minutes.
Start with not two minutes. That's probably too short. But start
with, let's say 1010, minutes before Fajr. Jump up. Make will do
come pray to the CAS. Make that a habit. Set your alarm for that if
you're gonna have Professor. Anyway, it's just a short amount
of time. Now, in the beginning, you might have a.
Jet lag of extra worship, because you're not used to getting up that
early. So be patient with your body as it changes. Be patient
with it, and don't say to yourself, oh, I need the extra
sleep. This is a this is a trip a trick, or maybe a trip up, I can
say of shaitan,
where shaitan comes and says, Oh, no, no, no, no, we need so much
extra sleep now. Yes, go to bed early. I'm not you know, don't go
to bed at 3am and expect to wake up at 330 for Taj No. But as you
begin to change your habits and get up early, you'll start to go
to bed a little bit earlier, and this is going to help you get up
even earlier. It's going to help you increase your your Taj time,
but be careful of telling yourself, no, no, I need sleep. I
need sleep unless you're sick or ill or something like that. That's
a different story. But the need for sleep, that's that's why I
question sleep studies. Where is this study that has examined the
person who isn't heavy to the bed with sin? What makes us heavy to
our beds? What makes us need to sleep? Exhaustion, physical
exhaustion. We know this. This is, this is
an indisputed fact that when you're exhausted, you need to
sleep. Spiritual exhaustion is a thing. Spiritual exhaustion is
real and but spiritual exhaustion, yes, sleep actually does help.
Spiritual exhaust, exhaustion. But what helps spiritual exhaustion
more is the jud is prayer, is the kid, is recitation of Quran, all
of these things we find in the night prayer. So when you're
saying to yourself, I'm so tired, so tired, I'm so I'm struggling,
hurting in pain.
Know that your religion has given you
a beautiful
solution, a beautiful balm. When I was young, there used to be a
commercial where a very stressed out woman, she would she was so
stressed out, and she would say, Calgon, take me away. And it was,
it was she would go sit in the bath and feel all better after 10
minutes,
our religion has given us something much better than a hot
bath that gets cold after 15 minutes, our religion has given us
something that warms the spirit. We can say, tahajjud, take me
away.
A prayer that warms the spirit, a prayer that uplifts, gives energy
and is a keystone habit. It will help bring the rest of your life
into the place you want it to be, the longing you have for God, the
concern about what the things you're struggling with in life, go
to tahajjud to find that solace and to find the beginning of the
better life that You're looking for for yourself. Allah
alhamdulillahi, Rob belami Abu,