Consequences of dawn and dusk prayers
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Peace! I would like to ask about the consequences of dawn and dusk prayers on our life as individuals. I go straight to examples a)dawn prayer dawn in my city is about 6 a.m. these days so I wake up (alarm clock) make ablution and pray. As my life won't start before 8 a.m. I try to sleep a bit more. Result when I wake up again I don't feel energetic at all. I also imagine someone who work until, let's say, 5 o'clock. What should he/she do? Sleep one hour then wake up, pray, and go back to bed?
b)Dusk prayer sometimes it gets really complicated. Wintertime dusk in my city about 4-5 o'clock p.m. at that time an average man/woman might be intensely involved in their own activity. In western countries nobody stops for prayers, so it's impossible to stick to the timing sometimes. My solution is that I recite a small prayer mentally and when I have the possibility I pray.
I wonder... is the quality of prayer more important than the timing ? Prayers are more important than Life? or viceversa? Is there any balance to look for in all these elements?
I'm interested in your answers AS HUMAN BEINGS... and, if you can, don't quote the Quran.
Thanks!
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Salam Petrus,
Well, the Quran does not give exct prayer times anyway. There are several (general) times mentioned, but I read them more as "at any time". I just pray after getting up and before going to sleep, whenever that may be, and another time during the day, mostly when I come back from work (or from another activity).I think most important ist that when you pray, you take time for it. For some people, it may be good to have a certain time when they leave all activity and take the break for prayer, for others like you and me it might be better to handle it more flexible.
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Salam Petrus,
Well, the Quran does not give exct prayer times anyway. There are several (general) times mentioned, but I read them more as "at any time". I just pray after getting up and before going to sleep, whenever that may be, and another time during the day, mostly when I come back from work (or from another activity).I think most important ist that when you pray, you take time for it. For some people, it may be good to have a certain time when they leave all activity and take the break for prayer, for others like you and me it might be better to handle it more flexible.
This is what I do. If someone can fit the dawn prayer in their schedule they can go for it if they wish. Not everyone can so it makes sense to say at the start of the day do salat and at the end of the day do salat.
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Peace be upon you,
I have programming times as dawn and dusk. In order to program your nafs, you have to enter a receptive state,
Which is known as the meditative state...halfway between awake and sleep. This is symbolized as the day mee ging into night and night merging into day. If you can maintain the programming of the nafs at dawn and dusk great, but its more symbolic of the state you need to be in to program your nafs. -
Peace brother, I know you don't want quotes from the Qur'an, but if one doesn't obey the laws of God, then one is not a submitted one/Muslim. A submitted/Muslim can't follow his/her own desires, if it does, then is submitted not to God, but to his/her desires.
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And when you have finished your prayer, remember God - standing and sitting and lying down; and when you are once again secure, observe your prayers . Verily, for all believers prayer is indeed a sacred duty linked to particular times .IN THE HOUSES which God has allowed to be raised so that His name be remembered in them, there extol His limitless glory at morn and evening - (2437) people whom neither commerce nor striving after gain can divert from the remembrance of God, and from constancy in prayer, and from charity58 who are filled with fear of the Day on which all hearts and eyes will be convulsed, (243
If my opinion helps remember, that god is the Most Merciful and the Most Forgiving, and if not doing one prayer at is right time is a sin, lets pray and ask forgiveness for this, so that maybe He will forgive us. Also, we should do our best to be of the righteous/pious, true believers, hopping this to be our only sin. For 2177True piety does not consist in turning your faces towards the east or the west - but truly pious is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, and the prophets; and spends his substance - however much he himself may cherish it - upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and for the freeing of human beings from bondage; and is constant in prayer, and renders the purifying dues; and they who keep their promises whenever they promise, and are patient in misfortune and hardship and in time of peril it is they that have proved themselves true, and it is they, they who are conscious of God.
Here in the west the work day is not set for the best for people, but for the best for the economy, this is a materialistic world not an spiritual one.