tips to wake up for subuh prayers :)

..Assalamualaikum..

Tonight is the night for the usrah dinner. hee.

feeling a wee bit giddy and nervous

but then again,i always feel that way for ANY event. haha :P

okay,well i got this idea of a topic from my friend

right,he says that he always overslept through his subuh prayers

and i think most people have been through this phrase in their lives

i've been hearing a few talks and i just want to share some of the ways that i practice

1. after you recite your prayers to sleep, you pray to Allah, just a small du'a. tell Him that you need His help to wake up tomorrow morning. and tell it like you mean it. seriously, this works. unless if you really don't mean it, you have no niat to do so, then you wouldn't have the strength to wake up. this is a tip i discovered by ustaz kazim elias. wink wink :)

2. the second one is based upon a hadith by the beloved messenger of Allah

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "During your sleep, Satan knots three knots at the back of the head of each of you, and he breathes the following words at each knot, 'The night is, long, so keep on sleeping,' If that person wakes up and celebrates the praises of Allah, then one knot is undone, and when he performs ablution the second knot is undone, and when he prays, all the knots are undone, and he gets up in the morning lively and gay, otherwise he gets up dull and gloomy. "

so when you wake up, say subhanallah. then one knot is removed. don't you go back to sleep after that! straight away go to perform your ablution to remove the second knot and lastly, perform your prayers. 3 knots removed! after that,satan would not have control over you the whole day. mashAllah :) this tip is retrieved from sheikh khalid yasin. you can find him on youtube.

3. check your sleep schedule. this is my tip personally. if you TERforget to du'a to Allah to help you wake up and you find yourself sleeping through subuh without getting the chance to say subhanallah to wake up, then sleep in time. for me,i have found out that my sleep limit is usually 1 or 2 am. if i sleep after that, i usually oversleep. so what must i do? i must sleep before that time. then i find it easy to wake up after that :)

4. quit snoozing your phone! you had the time to wake up to snooze your phone, why not wake up all together? fight the urge to snooze and just wake up.

Narrated 'Abdullah: It was mentioned before the Prophet that there was a man who slept the night till morning (after sunrise). The Prophet said, "He is a man in whose ears (or ear) Satan had urinated."

euwww! you got satan's urination in your ear!! >.< haha :P

may these tips help you find your way

and may we all strive for the better :) hoyeah.

ouh yeah. i'm late to go check out the hall for the dinner tonight. aiks! >.<