Remembrance of Allah — Page 67
Thirteen Methods of Waking up for Tahajjud 67 have revealed, and Your Prophet whom You have sent’] ( Sunan at-Tirmidh ī , Kitābud-Da‘wāt, Bābu ad-Du‘āu’ ‘indan-Naum; Hadith 3574). All believers should do likewise and then, when lying down in bed, recite this dhikr in their heart: ٖ ِ وَبِحَمْدِہ هللا َ سُبْحَان ْمِ. ي ِ ِ الْعَظ هللا َ سُبْحَان [ Sub ha n-All a hi wa bi- h amdih i , Sub ha n-Allah- hil-A zi m— ‘Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise; Holy is Allah, the Great’, or continue with some other dhikr until one falls asleep because the condition in which a person goes to sleep generally stays with him all night. Thus, the person who goes to sleep while performing tasb ih [glorifying Allah] and ta h m i d [praising Allah] will be as if he had been occupied in doing that very act the entire night. Look, if women or children go to sleep suffering in some grief or pain, then—even while they are asleep, turning over onto their sides—they utter painful and sorrowful sounds, because the effect of the sorrow or grief that they were involved in at the time of going to sleep, stays with them. But if someone goes to sleep reciting tasb ih he will indeed be heard reciting tasb ih when he will turn on his side. This is indeed the reason why God Almighty says in the Holy Quran that the believers are those who: — َنْوُقِفْنُي ْمُهٰنْقَزَر اَّمِم َّو اًعَمَط١ٞ َّو اًفْوَخ ْمُهَّبَر َنْوُعْدَي ِعِجاَضَمْلا ِنَع ْمُهُبْوُنُج ىٰفاَجَتَت S u rah as-Sajdah, 32:17 Meaning that their sides keep away from their beds, and they call on their Lord in fear and hope, and spend out of what We have bestowed on them.