Allah said to sleep and to wake up at one third of the night (about 3am) to pray. Its called Tahajjud. The kind of prayer that you settle yourself infront of Allah, humblely down to your both knees and sujood, and that you freed yourself from earthly matters and desires. Tahajjud is the prayer to speak to Allah, one-to-one, alone and peaceful.
What makes it so special to the Prophets is that the rarity of the time it should be done at. For most human, to wake up while we're in deep sleep is so hard. And to wake up at the middle of the night at 3am is just WOW. And able to pray at that time, DOUBLE WOW.
But its not impossible at all. If the Prophets can done it why can't we? Right?
Our days are not actually ours. Its all Allah. Everything is His. Whatever in between that, is His. Whatever happens in between the days is also His. We, basically, literally,own almost nothing unless very little from this life. So when Allah asked we to wake up for Subuh prayer,we wake up. When Allah said that Tahajjud is the 'real deal' to be closer to Him so we wake up too. When Allah said perform the Zuhur on midday we wake up. We have to, we must, like it or not, because we don't own the world. Allah created it. We don't own the time, Allah owned it. We don't create rain and seeds, Allah created it. So have respect for The Creator, The real owner, The Boss of The Whole Universe. We don't want to take but not to pay right? So.
When He asked us to pray we pray. Don't argue on logical reasons or the science & magics behind this alone instead it is so simple. The concept is you pay what you take. And if you do it and you get repay. Allah means well, everything is good about Him, so all commandments must have good valid reasons to why we, humans, have to perform it.
Now that just cover the physical aspects. What about souls? We knew nothing about it-too little or almost nothing at all. Soul is Allah's all alone. When The Creator said thats His secret, it His. None of the human being would even possibly know about it. Even they claimed they knew, blufffff-don't even believe them.
The magic behind all Ibadah we do, its complete the souls needs. Now don't tell that you know yourself completely. You most probably did not even know what to eat at lunch hour yesterday.so we, knowing ourselves too well as we say...? Bluff. We don't know ourselves that well. We cannot make a precise decision most of the time. We always say we don't know what to do or say. Where to go. Who we should turn to. What taste do we like. We cannot even decribe our feelings-Our OWN FEELINGS!
But Allah knows us because He created us. He knows the mechanism of us. He knows how complicated we can be but we are actually very easy on our needs. He knows that we always want a lot of everything when our physical and emotions actually need very little to be happy. He knows that every human being is unique and our needs are different because He created us differently. He knows that we are bad at describing things so He created languages, signs and all. We see, Allah owns us so He knows each of His Creation preferences, the good and the bad, what we up to and whats in our soul. He knows everything we need of!
But human we are too arrogant thinking we are all good without prayers, without fasting, without Zakat, without Hajji, without Him. We like good things, good people, good neighbourhood, good foods and good clothes and remember how everything good belongs to Allah? So now why we should be picky and choosy over good things above all the good things we can do? Besides these few good things like prayers and fasting were directly commanded to us by Allah through the Quran. Making them as super duper extremely terribly important deeds we must put first before anything else.
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Don't be like this. We just dropping by on Earth, we most probabily live to only 70ties, we gonna get old, the cycle will eventually come, we back to 'babies'-weak, cannot do things on our own, cannot walk or feed ourselves. The point is, we really really gonna be on Earth for a really really short time only. And the ultimate goal is The Thereafter. We must earn the pass to Heaven. We must have more good deeds on the scale. We must have great Iman to pass the Sirat Bridge. We must-theres no excuse to not to because Prophets are normal human and they are ALL GOING TO HEAVEN and we are normal humans too so we ALL SHOULD BE GOING TO HEAVEN too. When history done it, we must have to remake it happen as well. When Prophets done it so beautifully, so we must do it so beautifully too.
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May we all working hard toward Jannah. Insyallah.
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