What are the specific factors that help one stand in night prayer?
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Question:
In her final question, she says, “O His Eminence the Shaykh: What are the factors that help one stand in night prayer?”
Answer:
The factors that help one stand in night prayer are numerous, among them: remembering the Hereafter and what awaits those of great reward, and that Allah praised them in His saying, (Exalted and Majestic is He), regarding the righteous:[Adh-Dhariyat 51:17] and in the early hours they seek forgiveness [Surat al-Dhariyat: 17-18], and He mentioned the servants of Allah, saying regarding the servants of Allah—and they are the awliya (close friends of Allah)—: [Surat al-Furqan: 64]. So when the believing man and woman remember the deeds of these people, this is among the factors that energize them in night prayer and humble them in night prayer, along with remembering the reward they have with Allah, the great reward, and the multiplication of good deeds. Yes.
In her final question, she says, “O His Eminence the Shaykh: What are the factors that help one stand in night prayer?”
Answer:
The factors that help one stand in night prayer are numerous, among them: remembering the Hereafter and what awaits those of great reward, and that Allah praised them in His saying, (Exalted and Majestic is He), regarding the righteous:
They used to sleep but little of the night,
كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer]
وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَامًا
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