THE NIGHT PRAY OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD SAW

• Procedures for Evening Prayer

Night Prayer besides praying ba'diyah Isya and Witir prayer, means sunna prayer nafilah mutlaqoh. Then may carry out as much as he wants, may be 2 rokaat, 4 rokaat and so on. And may also carry out any kind of rokaat with one greeting, which is important tasyahhudnya can not be more than 2, the first tasyahhud and tasyahud end. While that should be read at the time tahajjud is Prophet SAW never continuous reading certain letters, but scholars considered good to read the Qur'an completely. For example, he is able to daily read the Qur'an 1 juz in his Tahajjud prayer, or half a juz, or a quarter of a juz. So when he comes the next night, he goes on reading until he can put the Qur'an in a month or less or more depending on how you persist and craft someone in worship.

Shalat Tahajjud there is no limit to the number of rokaatnya. Prophet SAW sometimes do 13 rokaat, sometimes 9 rokaat, sometimes 7 rokaat, which at the end is Witir prayer. But we can do more than that.

• The Sholihin Story Related to Qiyamul Lail

Among the favored deeds and the habits of the auliya '(guardians) and the sholihin at night is waking up, as they gain more grace at night than during the day. They feel the unbearable pleasure in their hearts by approaching Allah SWT at night. And the delights, the pleasures, the togetherness with Allah SWT, the pleasure of bermunajat and discussion with Allah SWT so some sholihin said, "If for example the residents of heaven feel the pleasure as we feel at the time qiyamullail, really they get the extraordinary pleasure in heaven.

 Saying part of the scholar ': "Someone who used to perform qiyamullail, felt the delights of the delights of the ignorant people of Allah SWT with music, women and others."

 And said Al-Habib Abdullah ibn Umar bin Yahya: "Since 40 years ago I have never felt cramped and sad except for the dawn of shodiq."

 Then the pleasures mentioned by the sholihin will not be obtained except after trying and striving to present their hearts and selfishness to carry them out, as Utbah Al-Ghulam mentions, "I struggled to perform the Night Prayer for 20 years, then I Feel the pleasure for the next 20 years. "

Sa'id bin Musayyib who is said to be Sayyidut taabi'in (leader of the tabi'in), he performs his 50-year-old Fajr prayer with the Isha prayers' womb that indicates that he does not sleep at night, but he maximizes night time by Night Prayer.

 It is narrated there is a person who usually wake up night so that one night he perform qiyamullail more than usual and his legs swell because of it, then the next night he hit his feet as he said, "O my lust always ordered to ugliness! You were not created except for worship. "Then he rose to perform qiyamullail as usual until dawn and he did not care about his swollen legs.

 It is narrated that Sirry As-Saqoty if it had arrived at night, he performed the prayer. And in every prayer he cries, but holds it and does not show it. And when it was all night where the humans around him had slept, then he could no longer hold his tears so that the sound of crying in his prayer.

 Saying Muhammad bin Munkadir: "I struggled, tried and mujahadah for 20 years to subdue my lust to perform worship and wake up the night, so be my lust now customs are worship".

 Said Sufyan Ats-Tsauri: "I was once times supplicated by Allah SWT to wake the night for 5 months just because of one sin that I do."

 Among al-Habib manaqib bin al-Bahr Sholeh al-Bahr after the prayer Isya 'always perform 2 rokaat prayers that are not completed except with the dawn of shodiq. In the first rokaat, he memhatamkan Al-Qur'an and on second rokaat he read the letter of Al-Ikhlas as much as 90.000 kali.Begitulah sholihin in the night their lives. Because they know that night is a new creature that Allah has created for them and will not return forever until the Day of Judgment to account for it.

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Barrier of Night Prayer (Qiyamul Lail)

How many times a week do we perform Qiyamul Lail (night prayer)? Of course everyone knows the answer. Not a few people try hard to be able to wake up praying night, but so difficult to try it. What is the cause of the difficulty of us waking up the night prayer?

Shaykh Fudhail bin Iyadh once said: "If you can not afford evening prayers and fasting during the day, then know that you are in a state of obstinacy, because your sins are so numerous."

Shaykh Ibrahim bin Adham was visited by someone to ask his advice so that he could do the evening prayer.

He then said to him, "Do not make a witness to Allah Azza Wajála during the day, Allah will awaken you to bermunajat before Him at night. For your munajat before Him in the night is the greatest glory, while the one who is accepting does not deserve that glory. "

Someone came to Imam Ghazali to ask him about something that caused him not to wake up at night to pray.

He replied, "The sin of your sins has stunned you."

Al-Hasan once said, "No one is leaving the evening prayer except for the sin that he committed. Therefore, check yourself every night when the sun sets, then repent to your Robb, so that you can do the evening prayer. "

On another occasion, he explained, "Among the signs of a person drowning in sin is that his chest is never roomy to be able to do fasting during the day and to do sunnah prayers at night."

Sufyan Ats-Tsauri once said, "I was stymied (unable to get up) to do the five night prayer for one sin that I have committed."

Asked him, "What is that sin? "

He replied, "I saw a man who was crying, then I said in my heart that it was done as a form of pretense."

Abdullah bin Mas'ud was once asked by someone, "We can not get up late to do the prayers."

He replied, "Your sins have bundled you."

Likewise, eating unlawful goods will hinder the implementation of night prayers.

One of the clerics said, 'How often a bite of food is preventing the evening prayer. How often that view prevents a person from reading a letter from the Qur'an. Truly a servant will eat a meal or do something that causes him to not do night prayers for a year. "

Likewise the love of the world (Hubbud Dunya) can prevent a person from performing the evening prayer.

Abu Talib al-Makki said, "What can prevent a servant from performing the night prayer, or making it negligent for so long, there are three things. That is, eating a happy meal, constantly committing a sin, and dominating the mind of the world to the heart. "

We can conclude that what can help a person to perform the evening prayer is: eating halal food, istiqomah in repentance, away from haram and shubhat food, away from sin and vice and to reject the domination of the worldly thoughts and love of the world from the heart By always remembering the dead and thinking of the afterlife or anything that will be met after death. *

(/H.A. Faiz Basori Alwi.)