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Wakey Wakey
BrKhalid
02/23/01 at 17:51:33
Asalaamu Alaikum ;-)

[quote]If we consider the issue of fajr salat. What is the case of the one who has trouble waking up, yet insists on staying awake late regularly (for no justifiable reason), or who only sets one low-resonance alarm when s/he has the ability to set another which is really loud? [/quote]


This quote from Br Abu Khaled got me thinking about the wild and wacky ways you’ve gone about getting up in the morning (hmm or maybe its just me but whatever….)

So here’s a few I’ve used (and heard of) in my time:

1. High pitched alarm

2. Two alarms timed to ring 5 mins of each other

3. Set the alarm half an hour early so you can hit the snooze button three times (my current favourite ;-)

4. Place the alarm at the other end of the room so you have to wake up and walk to switch the thing off

5. Get your best mate to ring you (be prepared for some incomprehensible gibberish when they pick up if you’re the caller btw!)

But the absolute, best, most effective way of getting up in the morning in my experience is…….







































Get your parents to wake you up. Works every time :D
Re: Wakey Wakey
Asim
02/23/01 at 18:33:33
Assalaamu alaikum,

Good suggestions br Khalid. Here is one more, kinda a combination of your ideas.

Use two alarms, both shrill voiced, and time them to go off simultaenously. One at your bedside and one in the bathroom! And no snoozy alarms please :)(one gets into the habit of putting it to sleep) This way you will have to go to the bathroom to shut it off.

Sleeping early is always good but sometimes it is kinda hard to do. If you are going to stay awake late then don't sleep at all :) Sleep after praying fajr.

Wasalaam.
Re: Wakey Wakey
meraj
02/23/01 at 18:24:46
[slm],

hahaha :D i usually do some of those things to help me get up (including the 2 alarm clocks)... another good thing to do is to simply make duaa before you go to bed... ask allah to help you wake up easily (and *stay* awake :) )
Re: Wakey Wakey
jannah
02/23/01 at 23:57:31
A good way of getting up for fajr is installing that prayertimes program. After you hear the athan you can't possibly just go back to sleep after that it ain't right..!

also i've noticed that if i set my alarm for a time after the start of fajr i hit snooze thinking i got time... and if i set it for before fajr i think i'll be up too early.. so the best thing is to set it for exactly the time of fajr, that way u'll be sure to get up...
Re: Wakey Wakey
zubaid
02/24/01 at 00:26:47
as-Salaamu 'Alaykum,
 I actually had one comment and then a question.
  A while ago someone suggested to me to make du'aa before I go to sleep and ask Allah (swt) to help untie the three-knots that are held against you while waking up for Fajr.  (I don't remember the hadith verbatim, I'll look for it, or if somebody else knows it they can put it up inshaa Allah).
 The question was, that I heard one brother talking about an ayat in the Qur'an, that if you read it before you go to sleep, you will, inshaa Allah, wake up for Fajr.  Has anybody else heard that and/or know which ayat he was referring to?

Jazakum Allahu Khairun.

Take care,

Zubaid Kazmi
Re: Wakey Wakey
meraj
02/24/01 at 00:32:43
slm,

another thing i have heard is that if one has difficulty getting up for fajr, it could be because his sins are weighing him down :o
Re: Wakey Wakey
PacificBreeze
03/02/01 at 23:19:03
salaams

ha ha yes, i'm all for wackiness!! wacky islamicness!! there we goo!!! :)

hmm, yes i've actually done #4-5..and the duas...and...well...in those occaisional slacking times..i've thought of getting my sis to spill water on me! or keep the lights on..although i noticed i no longer am bothered with bright lights..?? the adhan alarm is a good one..but our comp station is down stairs..hmmm...i'm thinking maybe if it gets difficult next time, i could get my sister to put the quran on real loudly that'll definitely force me to wake up!!! :)

re the knots and duas, yes it's true...but as to the specific dua ref in the quran..hmmm...at the moment, i can't recall anything?? i can ask the fam later?

salaams through the breeze... :)
Re: Wakey Wakey
Saleema
02/24/01 at 14:53:13
Assalam ualykum,

I place my alaram on the other side so i have to get up and walk there.

lately i have been doing something else too. when my eyes open, i say bismillah so i don't go back to sleep or otherwise i would feel guilty! that i invoke Allah then go back to sleep! so guilt helps a alo.

wassalam
Re: Wakey Wakey
Kashif
02/24/01 at 15:08:28
assalaamu alaikum

Saleema, thats similar to what i do. I force myself to say some dhikr aloud, even if it is `a'othu billahi min ash-shaytaan ar-rajeem.

Here is part of an article i found a while back. Its really good alhumdulillah.

Kashif
Wa Salaam


ONE: To make sure to go to bed early as the Prophet used to discourage sleep before performing Ishaa prayer and especially engaging in conversation after it. Certain cases were excepted, some of which are enumerated by Imam Nawawi in his explanation of Muslim's account. Nawawi, may Allaah have mercy upon him says:

The reason why converation after it is discouraged is the fear lest it leads to staying awake for long , which might induce drowsiness and difficulty with observing night prayers or Subh [dawn] prayer in their permitted, preferred or best times. The topics covered by this restriction are all fulfilling no good useful purpose. However, as to useful verbal activities, such as the pursuit of knowledge, listening to the wise tales of righteous people, talking to one's guest or bride, or members of one's family for the sake of company, interacting with travellers with a view to protect themselves and their goods, embarking on talks designed to conciliate between people or intercede before them in a good cause or to enjoin good and forbid evil and admonish people by pointing to a beneficial course of action to follow etc... there are no such restrictions.

TWO: To be assiduous in observing the Aadaab [good manners prescribed in Islam] as to what to do before sleep such as making Du'aa [supplication], bringing one's palms together, very mildly spitting into them and reciting the last three soorah's of the Qur'aan into them and them wiping them over one's face, head and body, being physically and religiously pure and performing a two rakah voluntary prayer after wudhoo [ablution]. A muslim has to ask his wife, parents, relatives or neighbours to help waking him up. Once waken up, he should not linger lazily for long in bed, lest he acquires the vices of the hypocrites who come to prayer showing ample signs of laziness and lack of enthusiasm.

THREE: To fill one's heart with faith and good deeds. Once faith is alive in the heart, it induces the person to do good deeds and strive unremittingly hard. Faith is like a tree which only yields good fruit when irrigated from the streamlets of good deeds, thus bringing about an improvement both in personal conduct and at the interactional level with society at large. The lack of such streamlets or water supplies proportionately causes faith to wither and wilt. The heart is highly sensitive to external hardening stimuli, such as excess food or drink or aberrations in watching or listening (letting your eyes and ears loose to what is unlawful for them). You should therefore protect your heart from such external allurements.

FOUR: To keep away from Ma'aasi [acts of disobedience to Allah] by protecting the eyes, the tongue, the hearing and all the senses from indulging in the perception of objects that Allah has made unlawful for us. As an alternative, one should concern himself with matters pertaining to the worship of Allaah, such as devoting one's sight to the reading of Allaah's Book, meditating over the creatures that Allaah has created in this universe, reading books of knowledge etc. One member of the rightly guided early generations was asked about the reason why people found it difficult to uphold voluntary prayers at night. He answered: "Your sins have shackled you". No doubt sins can be a major cause for a persons inability to enjoy the blessings of piety. As Imaam Ibn ul-Qayyim said, sins are wounds and some wounds can be fatal.

FIVE: To bear in mind the great reward for attending Fajr prayer in congregation on time, and the strong rebuke for him to fails to observe it and to satisfy its conditions. Uthmaan ibn 'Affaan related:

I heard Allah's Messenger say: "He who prays Ishaa in Jamaa'ah [congregation] is as if he has prayed for half the night . As to him who (also) prays Fajr in congregation, it is as if he has prayed all night." [narrated by Maalik and the wording is that of Muslim who also reported it]

Similarly, Bukhaaaree and Muslim and An-Nasaaee related on the authority of Ibn Mas'ud (radiallaahu-anhu) that he said:

The case of a man who slept all the night up to sunrise (without waking up for Fajr) was related to the Prophet whereupon he said: "That was a man in whose ear Shaytaan has urinated", or he said "in both his ears".

NS
Re: Wakey Wakey
BrKhalid
02/24/01 at 16:28:09
Asalaamu Alaikum ;-)

Narrated Hudhaifa:

Whenever the Prophet [saw] intended to go to bed, he would recite: "Bismika Allahumma amutu wa ahya (With Your name, O Allah, I die and I live)."

And when he woke up from his sleep, he would say: "Al-hamdu lil-lahil-ladhi ahyana ba'da ma amatana; wa ilaihi an-nushur (All the Praises are for Allah Who has made us alive after He made us die (sleep) and unto Him is the Resurrection). "

[Bukhari]


Re: Wakey Wakey
PacificBreeze
03/02/01 at 23:21:25
[quote]Asalaamu Alaikum ;-)

Narrated Hudhaifa:

Whenever the Prophet  intended to go to bed, he would recite: "Bismika Allahumma amutu wa ahya (With Your name, O Allah, I die and I live)."

And when he woke up from his sleep, he would say: "Al-hamdu lil-lahil-ladhi ahyana ba'da ma amatana; wa ilaihi an-nushur (All the Praises are for Allah Who has made us alive after He made us die (sleep) and unto Him is the Resurrection). "




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salaams..
i know those two..but for the first one i know it as the second word first..allahumma bismika amutu wa ahya.
i guess either way?
wa salaams.
Re: Wakey Wakey
proudtobemuslim
03/03/01 at 02:47:22
Assalam-u-Alaikum,

I think it's a case of both being correct since I found both words of the dua' in two different Ahadith in Bukhari.

Wassalam-u-Alaikum
Uzer
Re: Wakey Wakey
Kathy
03/03/01 at 08:12:01
slm
The alarm Jannah talks about was the only thing that finally worked for me!


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