Name: A Habit for the Evening
Uploaded: 2020-05-18T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed
Description: How do you spend your nights? Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed describes a bad evening habit to break.

<p>How do you spend your nights? Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed describes a bad evening habit to break.  </p>

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Deeds to Habit

 BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Nahmaduhu wa nasalli ala rasoolihi al-kareem. Amma ba'ad.  As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.  I hope all of you are benefiting from these videos that Yaqeen Institute is producing for  all of us in this month of Ramadan. If you are, then you are familiar with this face  and you can't miss this big turban. My first reminder was about a habit that we can develop  when we first wake up in the morning. The second reminder was about a habit that we  can develop in the afternoon. Today's video is dedicated to a habit that we must develop.  We must develop in the evening time. This is a sunnah of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi  wa sallam, and it comes directly from the Qur'an. Allah speaks about this in many places  in the Qur'an and I'll highlight a few verses. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about  the kuffar of Makkah, the idol worshippers of Makkah, He talks about some of their characteristics  and qualities that they had throughout the Qur'an. In one ayah in surah Mu'minoon, Allah  says, مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ, they were very arrogant, مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ  بِهِ, they were very arrogant. سَامِرٌ تَهْجُرُونَ, and right after arrogance,  you would think that there must be something worse than that or at the same level of that  that Allah will highlight that they had this quality. But when you hear these words that  are mentioned and you understand the meaning, you will be so surprised. مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ  بِهِ, they were arrogant. سَامِرٌ تَهْجُرُونَ, and they were people who would stay up  late at night gossiping and wasting their time. عَجِيب! Among all the different things  that they were doing wrong, burying their daughters, worshipping idols, and the list goes on, Allah  through His infinite wisdom had to put this bad quality of theirs in the Qur'an for us  to remember and to reflect over. The fact that they used to stay up late at night, سَامُرَ  means to stay up late to just relax and just talk and waste time. The Prophet ﷺ said  لا سَمُرَةَ بَعْدَ الْعِشَاءَ, there should be no chit-chatting and gossiping  after Isha Salah. Time to sleep. And this is in the Qur'an. سَامِرٌ تَهْجُرُونَ,  they would stay up at night and gossip and just chit-chat and waste their time. Allah  dedicates this passage to this quality of theirs so that He's trying to tell us that  this is not something that we need to develop. This is something we should run away from.  And unfortunately, unfortunately, most of the ummah, especially the youth of this ummah,  begin, our nights have become like our days and our days have become like our nights.  Sleep until 2, 3 o'clock in the morning, in the afternoon, sorry. And at night time  staying up all night playing video games or wasting our time on something. This habit  needs to leave for us to be successful. I'm not even going to talk about the medical sciences  and the research that's been done on having good sleeping habits and good sleeping hygiene  habits. We know that insomnia is so prevalent and you can research that. We don't need that  to understand that this is the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ and the different wisdoms of sleeping  early and right after the Isha Salah, putting everything away and going to sleep and going  to bed. Allah says in the Qur'an, وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ  مُن لَيْلِ لِبَاسٍ وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتٌ وَجَعَلَ  النَّهَارَ نُشُورًا Allah has made the night as a covering for us.  Everything is dark as a covering, as a libas. وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًا  And the sleep at night as a means of relaxation. The Prophet ﷺ, he commanded us to sleep  early at night and not to get involved with chit-chatting and gossip because we just prayed  Isha. And if we prayed Isha, all of our sins for that day have been erased. So it's best  to sleep on a note that your sins have been removed and erased and now you sleep like  that. And this habit was the habit of the Prophet ﷺ and the sahaba. Umar ibn Khattab  used to walk around the streets of Medina and make sure no one is sitting around just  chit-chatting and talking. He said, go to sleep, go to sleep because you people are  going to stay up at night and sleep during tahajjud and fajr time. What has happened  with the ummah today, most of us, is we stay up at night. I mean tahajjud is something  of the past for most of the youngsters and most of us and we can hardly make it for fajr  and shalaa. And we know one of the most essential qualities of successful people of this dunya,  of the Fortune 500 companies, athletes, you look at Kobe Bryant, I mean the most essential  thing was they would wake up early. And you cannot wake up when Kobe was asked about,  you know, tell me something about basketball and how can I become a better player. I mean  he mentioned two things and they were nothing to do with basketball. The first thing is  sleep. Sleep on time. Sleep. Get your sleep in. And this is from the Prophet's habit  and sunnah that he would sleep on time. He would say there is no point of staying up  at n…

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