Me, Shaytan & Fajr

One cold morning, I heard a voice trying to wake me up. The voice said my name once.

     "Izzat!"

Twice.

     "Izzat, wake up. It's Fajr!"

     I was so lazy to wake up. It's cold and it feels really really good under the blanket at this hour. But he kept calling me and waking me up over and over again.

     "Izzat, wake up! Don't fall for the shaytan! Come on, now. Wake up!  Shaytan is playing tricks on you."

     I said to myself, "Oh man, I can't let shaytan play tricks on me!" So, without any delay I woke up immediately, take a bath, make wudhu' and go straight to the masjid to pray Fajr in jamaah.

     That was the day when I was in boarding school. Yeah, we have a religious group of students who always wake me and other students up in the morning for Fajr prayer. The way of saying "Don't fall for the shaytan!" have been a powerful phrase that I hold on until today. In fact, Allah said in Surah An-nisa, verse 26, that the plot of the devil/shaytan is very weak. So, what makes of us if we fall for the shaytan and sleep through? Well, what I can say is that we ARE a LOSER. *sigh. (T.T)

     So, ever since then, if I were lazy to wake up for Fajr, I would remember this. But there is a second way that I used to force myself to wake up for Fajr and that is bearing in mind that praying Fajr in jamaah is one of the key for Islam to win. Like what Sheikh Khalid Yassin said, "Fajr is for soldier." If you can't mujahadah yourself to commit for praying Fajr in jamaah at the masjid, then the ever-dreamed 'Islam will win' situation will remain as a dream as you sleep through the Fajr praying time.

     I'm not saying I always wake up early. Most of the time my friends wake me up. But that's the struggle within. A mujahadah against your nafs and a battle between you and shaytan.


So, two points to take away on how to wake up for fajr :-



These works for me. It may be different for you guys. Wallahua'lam

*well of course you set your alarm clock, sleep early and all that kind of stuff~


Cos if you snooze, you loose!

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