Why did the Prophet pray Fajr in complete darkness?

Alhamdulillah. Continuing.

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In the book of prayer in the chapters regarding the timings of prayer. And here the author discusses the ideal time to make salat when did the prophet sallall.aii Make now we've heard at the beginning of this the book of prayer that the times for is from the break of dawn the true dawn until the actual sun the the disc of the sun becomes vis vvis visible over the eastern horizon that's the time when it is valid but what of the time is best we've discussed the best time for the best time for the best time and ideal time for the ideal time for now we are going to discuss the ideal time for now how do we quantify that if we don't have an exact narration of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam saying the best time to make fud is this time then how Can we reach that conclusion? Well, we look at the consistency of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We might find instances where he makes salah just before the sunrise and we may find instances where he makes salah somewhere in the middle somewhere in the beginning. Those are a those instances are exceptions to the rule. They are because of circumstance. Something happens. He has to delay prayer. For instance, he is receiving revelation just before fud and we cannot interrupt this revelation. So we wait for him. In the narration of Ib Abbas, he was receiving revelation from Allah where Allah showed him the cosmos. Subhan Allah. And he said, Allah then placed his hand into my back between my shoulder blades and I felt the coolness of that touch all the way reverberating through the front of my chest. and I was shown all of the cosmos. And so while this was happening, the companions were in the masid waiting for him to come out and start salah. And so they waited and waited and waited until just before sunrise he finally came out. And this is called this time of making. And when he came out, he made and then he informed them. This is a one-off. He didn't always make at this time. So when did he always usually make.

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So the author says that it is preferred to make as early as possible and at the very beginning of its time. This is referred to as when we make at the beginning of its time. This is referred to as okay. He then mentions a narration on the authority of.

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And so here she says that the women the believing women the Muslim women in the time of the prophet Sam they used to flock to the masjid to make with and they would come wrapped up in their garments as hijab and they would make salah and then they would all go back to their homes without anyone recognizing them. So even the other women and them walking home in the streets, no one could see who they were. What does this mean? It's it's dark out. It's still dark. It's very dark. And the only way that this can happen if we combine that with the length of his recitation. it's highly unlikely that most Muslim have ever been in a salah for that is the length of salah that the prophet would usually make for sau highly unlikely. Even the fud that we prayed now many people would find this to be long that's very long. The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam would sometimes recite surah yuf in the first and in the second how much is that almost 30 pages a little bit more than 30 pages. This was average recitation and this is what Omar was actually reciting the morning that he was attacked and and and murdered. this is the length of prayer because Allah says in the Quran specifically recite in the prayers and especially recite extra long in the morning because the salah is most witnessed by the angels. Right? Salah is most witnessed by the angels because every one of us, we have two angels, right? One that is on our right and writes our good deeds and encourage us to do good things and one in our left that writes down our bad deeds and forbids us and warns us when we go to do bad things. But not just that, but there are two shifts. There are two in the morning during the daylight hours and then there are two in the evening during the nighttime hours. So each one of us has how many angels that write his deeds? Four angels. Now when we go to make what happens? The angels of the day come down to take over from the angels of the night. And so for specifically all the angels for all of us are present in the masid with us. They're all here watching our deeds and praying with us. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala encouraged strongly that fud be the lengthiest recitation because when a person recites the Quran at in any salah, the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam says that there are angels specifically designated to listen to the Quran from human beings and then when a person stands for salah and starts to recite the angel will stand in front of him and come closer and closer and closer and open its mouth his mouth and that every word recited is recited directly into the angel's belly. Right? So he places his mouth on the mouth of the recider and all of the recitation goes into the inside of the angel. And so because of this the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam encouraged that fud be the longest prayer. If we if we take that along with is saying that women would come to the fud and would go home and it's still dark enough for them not to be recognized. This means that he was making fud when almost as soon as it comes in almost as soon as it comes in. Now remember the wording is ka which is a word that means they used to the prophet used to we used to meaning this is words that are used to articulate patterns meaning most of the time this is how fud was there may be some issues that arise that cause him to delay fud But his habit, his you know when he would usually make is at the very beginning of its time. And what is this called? This is called.

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How you doing? How are you? You okay?

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