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Fajr Prayer
When you miss it
You will see how important this prayer is on the day you miss it. Lets say your a person that rarely misses and one day you miss it. And you don't make Tawbah. You relationships with the people crumble. Why? Because you dont have patience for anyone and whatever negative thing someone says really offends you. Then you say a few words and your not talking to each other for a few days. Everything to you is just "ugh". Not only that but now you feel an emptiness inside of you, and unsatisfying feeling in you. And you try to all these spiritual things to fill it but it just doesn't do it. Not to mention your face with the usual noor in it becomes a face that is just dead and dark, dusty dark, the kind with no light (not literally dark). Your not in the mood for anything. Anyone who sees you knows your not in the mood for anything. Even if you are a, your facial expression says otherwise. Its gives a kind of "leave me alone..what do you want" kind of look. Oh yeah and flies might be your friends too. There is a hadith about a person who misses fajr, shaytaan urinates in his ear. And he wakes up with a bad smell. So perhaps the flies can smell that smell of yours. The day for you is a day you want to end. Because there is no spiritual satisfaction, forget trying to help people, you'll also find those simple tasks very hard to do.
Fajr Prayer
When you make it
But the day you actually pray fajr and do it well too, with some nice recitation and athkaar (duas of praise etc) and you sit remembering Allah till the sunrises..Allaahu Akbar. What a nice day. There's blessing in your day, meaning your day is longer, more satisfying, you can get a lot done in a small period of time. Just barakah in general. Your content with whatever you have. Even if its a cup of tea, for the whole day, your ok with it. You can get along with the people better. Its like you a have a protective barrier over your heart, so whenever someone says something mean to you, it doesnt affect you the way it would affect you on the day you missed fajr. You can let things slide and you definitely have patience with those difficult people. Alhamdulillah, it is a day that you can handle. Stress levels are down, and hopes are high. I call it spiritual satisfaction. Oh yeah and you look great too. There's a light on your face, especially your forehead that anyone can notice. Its better than what any maybeline or covergirl can do. Masha Allah. Oh and the rizq ( money, food, clothes) Lets just say this. Your taken care of. No need to ask someone for something. Allah will provide for you. Worried about being harmed? Thats also taken care of because Allah gives his protection to those who pray the Fajr. Protection from indeceny, danger and all that other bad stuff.
Virtues
Allah most High says:
“So establish the Prayer after the declining of the sun [from its zenith, for Dhuhr and then Asr] to the dusk of night [Maghrib and then ‘Isha] and the [Quranic]recitation of Fajr [prayer]. Indeed, the [Quranic] recitation of Fajr is witnessed.” [al-Quran 17:78]
The meaning of witnessed here means that both the angels of [previous] night and the angels of the [new] morning intently listen to the Fajr prayer being recited aloud because of its great status and virtue. [al-Suyuti, Tafsir al-Jalalayn]
".. if they only knew what they contain(Fajr prayer), they would come even if they had to crawl.” [Ahmad]
Benefits
Whoever prays the dawn prayer [Fajr], then He is under Allah’s protection. So beware, O son of Adam, that Allah doesn’t call you to account for being absent from His protection for any reason.” [Muslim]
“Whoever prays the two cooler prayer times (i.e., Fajr and `Asr) will enter Paradise.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
“Whoever performs the Prayer before the rising of the sun [Fajr] and before its setting [‘Asr], will not enter the Hell.” [Muslim]
Tips on Praying Fajr
1) I know no one wants to hear this, but if you actually want to wake up early for this, you must sleep immediately after praying Inshaa' (I know its difficult with all that going around you, but make an effort, its worthi it)
2) Avoid major sins or sins in general. Sometimes its the sins that prevent people from waking up. So if your not aware of what evil your doing, then make istighfaar alot so those sins can be erased from you.
3) Maintain a good relationship with your family. Talk to them, in a nice way, develop friendliness between you and then and for crying out loud stop getting into arguments with them. Those rifs between you really affect your fajr prayers in general
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