Are You A Morning Person?
Salaam
I’m not a morning person….I never have been. I sort of “wake up” at night…..if I ever need to work on something I start in the evening cos that’s when I’m most focused and full of energy.
I’ve always struggled to get out of bed before 9.00….and if I am out of bed before nine I’m half asleep….(unlike mum I’m not a chirpy early bird)
Fajr prayer is the most important prayer of the day.
The Holy Prophet ﷺ tells us that fajr Salaah along with Isha Salaah is particularly rich in blessings….
"If people only knew what blessings are in the fajr and Isha prayer, they would come to them, even if they had to crawl." (Bukhari and Muslim)
I find it SO hard to get up for Fajr, I’m up on most days but I’m always sleepy…and as soon as I’ve read Fajr I get back into bed without even bothering to pack the prayer mat away…. :oops: (I’ve heard that one really shouldn’t go back to sleep after Fajr)
If Fajr is say at 5.00 then I set my alarm clock for 4.30…cos I always spend 30 mins snoozing and thinking about getting out of bed.
Apparently back in the day people didn’t even need alarm clocks cos they would automatically wake up at Fajr/Tahajid time…those people had spiritual alarm clocks built in them...
Allah (swt) loves people those who deprive their sides from their beds, resist sleep (which the body loves) and rise for prayer, for the sincere sake of earning the pleasure of Allah (swt).
Someone once asked Hadrat Aisha (raa) about the most amazing thing she observed about the Holy Prophet (saw). She said “Everything about him was incredible. But I will say this, when the veiling of the night came, and when every lover went to his lover, he ﷺ went to be with his Lord”.
Too much sleep hardens our hearts…we’re programmed to believe that we need our “beauty sleep” and must get at least 6/8 hors of sleep every night…yet the likes of the Great Imam Abu Hanifah was known to read his Fajr prayer with his Isha wudhu for 40 years continuously…How come many of us are weak when it comes to missing our precious sleep?
Any tips on how to be more fresh and alert at Fajr time?
I heard that the way one behaves during the day plays a strong part in this…. A man once told a righteous man “I am unable to maintain night worship, prescribe a remedy for me”. The righteous man said “Do not disobey Him during the day and He will keep you up between His hands at night”....Is our lack of Iman the reason why we struggle with Fajr?
What’s your Fajr situation like?
Wasalaam
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[quote="MuslimSister"]Salaam
One thing I rate about mums is their energy at Sehri time.
My mum makes different things at Sehri time for all of us daily…she runs up and down the stairs trying to drag my dad/brother out of bed…and then cleans up as well as doing all her Ibadah…and never goes back to sleep.
The rest of us sit there like zombies. For us its missions just getting out of bed, eating and praying/reading Qur’an…. :oops:
Wasalaam[/quote]
Even you!?
But you're the responsible one!
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I am the worse person at sehri time, i can barely get up, mum comes to wake me up at least 3 times and even then my eyes are practically closed, i would agree with muslimsis and describe myself in zombie mode. However after sehri i do help mum with the work ie. puttin dishes in dishwasher etc. What annoys me the most is my sis, she is so chirpy and takes advantage of this to annoy me, must say though when she was away to pak for a whole yr come ramadan time i mised her the most cuz it was so dead then, cuz everyone just sat, ate read namaz and went to sleep.
Oh yeh feedback as to what happend y'day, read isha got in bed at 11:30pm and cudnt sleep till 2am! but managed to get up for fajar and then went to sleep got up for uni at 10am, i can only wake up early if I HAVE to get up otherwise i end up sleeping in.
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When I was a kid, it was my job to go around the house waking up the rest of the household. I'd be up before my Mum even finished saying my name once... but my siblings? The amount of times I wished I had a shotgun :roll:
My daughter now gets up on one call, but still sits there with one eye open while she eats. Then when she's on the prayer mat, she'll sit there completely still for about ten minutes, mustering up the strength to move to stand and pray 😂
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lol aww what age is she?
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angel,
Do not believe every observation that passes through your head. It is not the case that you CANNOT get up unless you 'have to', and IN MY EXPERIENCE even 'having to' is possible to get around if you're caving in to sleepiness.
ftr, since everyone is so upfront, today I got up very late, about 11, I was at an egagement party last night and then mucked about online, ignored my 6.45 alarm conscious I didn't have any meetings. It was an easy day, checking for mail replies on projects I can do in my own time (but no replies today), choosing to make things happen or to doss, concerning an upcoming exhibition and another couple of projects, and my only concrete tasks were liaising throughout the day on a website layout that isn't working (I'm contracted to a few web-stuff and IT companies managing projects and bringing in business), and sourcing advertising quotes that people are running late on. One thing I'm proud of is that I don't run late for other people if I can avoid it, learnt some hard lessons! So at 11am I had to remind myself that I allocate my hours pretty effectively, which was to banish the guilt and get on with superlative work. I will be dipping in and out of work throughout this evening (which doesn't work if you've got a boss, so I've got that sussed and don't do 'jobs'). I didn't do any exhibition stuff, was interrupted by my housemate's father passing away, so I helped my housemate pack and phoned some of his friends (actually he was on his way up North to be with his father in his last hours but didn't make it in time), and my aunt needing some errands doing. The only dossing I've done today has been this and one other post here. And at the end of a not-very-productive day, I'm happy. I feel I was pretty excellent in spite of whatever. And tomorrow when my alarm goes off at 6.45 I get one snooze, meeting someone for brekkie. My point? a) I love myself. Love yourself. b) Nothing's gonna get me down. Don't let anything get you down and take pride in the small things. c) Don't come up with rules that portray you in a bad light, eg I can't get up if I don't have to. Well done for making today happen!
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I’m always up at Sehri time, but I’m never fresh or alert. …and I strongly dislike waking up the rest of the household… if they don’t get out of bed after the first call I don’t bother running up the stairs again.
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So you [i]are[/i] the responsible one.
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Responsible would be to go back up those steps, throw a flip-flop at her brother and sisters and make sure they wake up, so they are not denied their rewards and munchies 😂
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[quote="yashmaki"]aint it permitted to sprinkle water on someone if they don't awake for fajr prayers? Can i take sprinkle as a euphamism for a bucket full?[/quote]
Or, to avoid spillage, use solid water - i.e, ice 😂
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[quote="Aphrodite"]Responsible would be to go back up those steps, throw a flip-flop at her brother and sisters and make sure they wake up, so they are not denied their rewards and munchies :lol:[/quote]
Lol....I cant do that do dear old daddy..and I'm too sleepy to be that mean to my brother/sister.
And anyway, if they miss their Sehri that's their own loss.
By the way, I heard that wives should sprinkle water on their husbands face to wak him up for Tahajud...(providing he's not a guy that flips easily)
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[quote="MuslimSister"][quote="Aphrodite"]Responsible would be to go back up those steps, throw a flip-flop at her brother and sisters and make sure they wake up, so they are not denied their rewards and munchies :lol:[/quote]
Lol....I cant do that do dear old daddy..and I'm too sleepy to be that mean to my brother/sister.
And anyway, if they miss their Sehri that's their own loss.
By the way, I heard that wives should sprinkle water on their husbands face to wak him up for Tahajud...(providing he's not a guy that flips easily)[/quote]
But they get more rewards, then you get more rewards cuz you helped them get them rewards. Especially if you help your Dad! It's a win-win situation 😉
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i love the idea of morning the sehri the whole making paratay and eating yogurt etc but i'm not a morning person i wish mornings started at 11am
but i do the sehri properly but the whole time i feel as if i'm still dreaming i only come awake after fajar then i go back to sleep
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[quote="Aphrodite"]
But they get more rewards, then you get more rewards cuz you helped them get them rewards. Especially if you help your Dad! It's a win-win situation ;)[/quote]
My dad needs at least four wake up calls....I think he uses me as his "snooze button". Only after I tell him there are only 5 min left he runs downstairs.
But your right, I should be more patient and less sleepy and lazy.
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fajr and sehri solution....works for me....so much in fact, i cant sleep after...
* Do Wudhu in freezing cold water
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[quote="Darth V-Hayder"]fajr and sehri solution....works for me....so much in fact, i cant sleep after...
* Do Wudhu in freezing cold water[/quote]
Oh, I've done that.. even though I have no problems waking on time, Alhamdulillah. It's incredibly refreshing 🙂
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sehri time is the HARDEST part of Ramadan for me
its missions gettng outta bed
and i HATE being the wake up call for the men in my house
waking someone up a million times -just ruins the Sehri of others :evil:
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Apparantly in Iraq they like to wake you up by gently stabbing there glowing cigerette butts on your legs or feet.#
I'm also a proper deep sleeper, once I went to sleep in bed normally and when I woke up the next morning, my mum told me someone had tried to break into our house and set an alarm off and I was the only one who slept through it.
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I've slept through an earthquake. I took it to mean that the God was not punishing me, but everyone who was awake during the quake.
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[quote="irfghan"] I took it to mean that the God was not punishing me, but everyone who was awake during the quake.[/quote]
did God tell u that? :roll:
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[quote="MuslimSisLilSis"]
did God tell u that? :roll:[/quote]
I worked it out myself. 😃
But I've prob got it coming to me. 🙁
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i had to be in uni at 9 today and i made the mistake of going to sleep after sehri-
so i was back in bed at 5.30 and out of bed at 7.30
i've felt awful all day long
no more going back to sleep after sehri for me
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[quote="MuslimSisLilSis"]no more going back to sleep after sehri for me[/quote]
thats so hard for me, after reading quran i feel right tired that i just fall asleep
but its true the day does seem to go well when you wake in morning,
and morning walks are SO refreshing
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yet to try it 😃
probably will do 2mrw....thing is....u cant resist hittin the sack, even tho i kept the intention of stayin up, knowin i cud sleep in
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…its missions for me too, to stay awake after Fajr but I have to stay awake cos I always need to be out the house at 7.30…
I’m definitely not a morning person.
And it’s so annoying that the men return home so late at night after Tarawih…
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[quote="NaJ/19"]
and morning walks are SO refreshing[/quote]
Asalamualaikum!
Indeed they r 😃
Well i aint a mornin person myself but Alhamdullilah ive been wakin up just on time for the past 2 dayz, probably becoz ive been sleepin dwnstairs 😂
Now im just realising hw valuable my sleep is specially wen pple used 2 say 2 me sleep on time :oops: ....wakin up at 4am n stayin awake all day goin bk to bed at 12.30am is hard but Alhamdullilah its worth it 😃
I just hpe i stay like dis after Ramadhan too.
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[quote="NaJ/19"]
and morning walks are SO refreshing[/quote]
true.I dont go for them that much but I remember once reading fajr, then going for wakl around the park. mashaALLAH very nice, and peaceful cos no1 else about.
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[quote="Med"][ cos no1 else about.[/quote]
u see thats why they so refreshing...i think im gonna start walking around
after fajar, actually bad idea i dont want to bump in to the mosque lot
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[quote="NaJ/19"][quote="Med"][ cos no1 else about.[/quote]
u see thats why they so refreshing...i think im gonna start walking around
after fajar, actually bad idea i dont want to bump in to the mosque lot[/quote]
loooooooool. Yeh, u shud be sitting at home!! How dare you even think about morning walks? tobah kar! lol
[quote="MuslimSister"]Salaam
One thing I rate about mums is their energy at Sehri time.
My mum makes different things at Sehri time for all of us daily…she runs up and down the stairs trying to drag my dad/brother out of bed…and then cleans up as well as doing all her Ibadah…and never goes back to sleep.
The rest of us sit there like zombies. For us its missions just getting out of bed, eating and praying/reading Qur’an…. :oops:
Wasalaam[/quote]
Yes! i hav seen the same thing wid my auntie especially in the mornings even though she is really tired or hasnt slept very well she still wakes up n prepares the sehri/morning breakfast 4 every1 n also waking every1 up at the same time.
i just wonder sumtimes..hw does she do all dis :roll: