Waking for Fajar

[redvelvet]

Re: Waking for Fajar

@Captain_Obvious

I’m also interested to know this. Are you sure you’re not confusing this with tahajjud? It sounds kind of shady particularly if it’s about Fajr. A person should be vigilant about their salat times themselves and not be waiting for angels to wake them up. Sure they might take active roles in certain cases, but for the most part, we have to make our own effort and not wait for angels to take us for salat or other ibadaat.

As for the topic, from time to time, I’ll happen to wake up at Fajr time, possibly out of concern and the fact that I tend to wake up at night anyway several times and then I’ll check the time. However, as for something unseen waking me up for Fajr, I don’t have any reason to believe that that is what’s going on.

Of course I’m not suggesting that one rely upon the angels to wake up for Fajar. I know that one should both intend to wake up for fajar and take measures to do so.

There have been times where I’ve woken up at Fajar without the alarm clock…sometimes just a few minutes before the cut-off time for fajar…so I have to hurry. A dream would make me up…as was the case this morning and it was an unpleasant one which I can’t recall now…or a sound would jerk me awake…a sound which doesn’t seem to make sense…perhaps I imagined it and it didn’t actually take place. I asked my mom about it and she said that my nani would say that those in the habit of praying Fajar wake up easily. But I have heard about this phenomenon from others, hence I asked. I am not among those who are in the habit of waking up for fajar but I have been surprised by the times that I’ve suddenly woken up at that hour …even when I received little sleep to begin with. I think it’s kinda cool…I may be wrong …but it does make me think that maybe it’s from Allah.