Sprinkle some Sunnah in your day! Day 5: Reviving Sunnahs
Sunnah, Sunnah, Sunnah.
Isn’t it enough that you pray your five prayers?
Isn’t it enough that you’re fasting?
Isn’t it enough that you’re donating every day during Dhul Hijjah (through the LaunchGood challenge of course)?
Well, it is.
You’re doing an amazing job and you’ll be rewarded for every action, both the big and the small.
However, why stop when you have the ability to do so much more?
Didn’t the Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s peace and blessings upon him) pray two units of prayer before Subh (Fajr)?
Didn’t he also pray before and after Duhur?
There are also prayers before Asr and after Maghrib as well.
Scholars call these prayer the Rawātib, and they are the sunnah prayers that are connected with obligatory prayers.
Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says: The first of his actions for which a servant of Allah will be held accountable on the Day of Resurrection will be his prayers. If they are in order, then he will have prospered and succeeded: and if they are wanting, then he will have failed and lost. If there is something defective in his obligatory prayers, the Lord (glorified and exalted be He) will say: See if My servant has any sunnah prayers with which may be completed that which was defective in his obligatory prayers. Then the rest of his actions will be judged in like fashion.
The point?
It’s time to support all of those obligatory prayers with some sunnah.
One of my personal favorites is the prayer of Duha, and it’s the prayer that is from the time of sunrise until Duhur. A quick two units of prayer that weigh extremely heavy on your scale.
In fact, the Prophet said, “Whoever prays the Fajr prayer then sits in his place of prayer remembering Allah until sunrise, then prays two units, shall be rewarded as if he had performed Hajj and ʿUmrah, with a reward that is complete, complete, complete.”
We are in the month of Hajj, why not try and get the reward of Hajj while you’re at it?
(Fine Print: Praying Duha does not take the place of actually going on Hajj).
Get praying.
Your brother,
Arthur K. Richards
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