Question:
What about delaying Evening Prayer until short time before sleeping? And the
Hadith (tradition) of the apostle of God which urges us to delay the Evening
Prayer:
"If it isn't too difficult to my Ummah (nation - Muslims), I would order
them to delay Evening Prayer."
The answer:
The due time of Evening prayer is from the Call of Evening Prayer to midnight,
after midnight it becomes a missed prayer.
Most Egyptians especially girls and boys think that they can pray Evening
Prayer till Morning Prayer but this isn't true because you can pray Evening
Prayer till twelve o'clock but after twelve it becomes a missed prayer.
Due times of prayers are mentioned in the original books of Fiq'h (Islamic
jurisprudence) and when the Angel Gabriel came down to the Messenger of God, it
is a sound tradition narrated in Al-Bokhary and Muslim's books of Hadith, the
prophet (May the blessing and peace of God be upon him) said:
"The due time of Noon Prayer starts as soon as the sun crosses the
meridian until the shadow of man is the same as his original length. The time
of Afternoon Prayer extends from this time to sunset (before the sun gets
yellowish). The time of Sunset Prayer is from sunset until the end of twilight
(the redness which remains in the horizon after the sun sets and lasts until
the onset of darkness). The time of Evening Prayer is until mid night (twelve
o'clock at night). The time for Morning Prayer starts from true dawn, which
occurs in the east when the light first appears from darkness of night and extends
until sunrise." Narrated by Al-Bokhary and Muslim after Abdullah Ibn-Amr.
These are the due times set by God and revealed to the apostle of God (May the
blessing and peace of God be upon him) by Gabriel. The Messenger of God (May
the blessing and peace of God be upon him) said:
"If it isn't too difficult to my Ummah, I would order them to delay
Evening Prayer." Sonan Abi-Dawood after abu-Horayra.
The Messenger of Allah (P.B.U.H) wants us to follow his guidance. He used to
sleep after the Evening Prayer so that his last work is the obedience to God.
He (May the blessing and peace of God be upon him) wants us to follow him and
our last work before sleeping is the obedience to God.
But, what we do today?
We pray the Evening Prayer and sit with each other talking bad and untrue
things, backbites, slander about people and other things and after that we
sleep so we see bad horrific dreams and nightmares because we didn't sleep
after obedience to God, so he (May the blessing and peace of God be upon him)
told us it is better to sleep after obedience to God.
Now we perform the Evening Prayer at its due time and delay Shaf' and Wetr
until we are going to sleep, when we want to sleep we do ablution, perform
Shaf' and Wetr and then go to bed at once.
My advice is to remember God, ask His Forgiveness and bless upon the Messenger
of God (P.B.U.H) when you want to sleep so that you can sleep with obedience to
God and I announce good news to you as it was narrated:
"Whoever sleeps remembering God is considered staying up and remembering
God all his night and when he wakes up, Angels say to him: Invoke Allah because
you have acceptable invocation"
Whoever doesn’t like to be considered staying up and remembering God all night?
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