The Best Time for Standing in Night Prayer
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: In the words of Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)[Adh-Dhariyat 51:17], the question is: Some doctors advise that a person should sleep for eight hours. Is this harmful to health?
Answer:
A person should sleep as much as his body needs to rest and regain its energy, and then get up. The best is to get up in the last third of the night; that is the best, the last third of the night, because it is the time of the Divine Descent, the time of the Divine Descent, the last third of the night. And this is the night prayer of Dawud (peace be upon him). Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: In the words of Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)
They used to sleep but little of the night,
كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَAnswer:
A person should sleep as much as his body needs to rest and regain its energy, and then get up. The best is to get up in the last third of the night; that is the best, the last third of the night, because it is the time of the Divine Descent, the time of the Divine Descent, the last third of the night. And this is the night prayer of Dawud (peace be upon him). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [207- 4717] أفضل وقت لقيام الليل - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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