The tahajjud prayer is a night prayer which is performed by getting up at night after having a sleep a while after isha prayer. It was obligatory upon every Muslim before five daily prescribed prayers became an obligation during the first periods of Islam. And with the event of miraj (The night of the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) miraculous journey to heaven (the 27th of Rajab)), when the five daily prescribed prayers’ being obligation has been stabilized, the tahajjud prayer has been changed into a nafila worship (a supererogatory and rewarded worship), yet in order to be a peculiar tradition for prophet, it had become an obligatory worship for only Our Prophet (pbuh). And this is revealed in the chapter of Isra, 79th verse. Since Our Prophet (pbuh) had specific worships on some matters such as charity and alms, there was some worship which was peculiar to him, either. And the tahajjud prayer was one of them. This prayer may be performed as between 2 and 8 rakahs. That is to say, according to the capability, it can be performed as two, four, six or eight rakahs. There is no compulsion like as “it must be absolutely eight rakahs”. As one can perform this prayer at his/her home, so can perform it at suitable places and time, such as at work, at the company etc. where s/he works at night. There are so many narrated hadiths (Our Prophet’s (pbuh) sayings and deeds) about the virtue of the tahajjud prayer. One of the meanings of a hadith among them is as follows: “When one third of the night remains, every night, Our Lord, Allah, the All-Mighty says as follows till the dawn to break: ‘Whoever wants me something, I shall give. Whoever supplicates to me, I shall accept his/her pray. Whoever repents, I shall forgive him/her.’”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:35:23 +0000
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