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Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God?

salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith 'isha esha ishaa salat al-isha isha prayer tahajud night vigil muftis koran quraan al-quran sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting duaa duas duaas supplication ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadat

Is night prayer the best way to get close to God?

QuestionWritten question · questioner not identifiedAnswered 12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 40 of 43 in the recording2021-01-12-S40

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Night prayer is one good way, he says, but God is always with you; if your lifestyle does not suit it, another practice that works for you is fine.

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Answering a question on whether waking to pray at night is the best way to gain God's favour and closeness, and whether that is the best time for dua, Mufti Abu Layth says it is mentioned in hadith and is a time of solitude and reflection. But he says God is not restricted to certain times or places and is always with you; it is about getting into that state of mind. He describes brain-wave states from beta to alpha, theta, delta and a contested gamma state, and says that in solitude the state of mind is altered. He says the night prayer was encouraged within that Arab lifestyle, and that someone who must wake at six for work need not feel it is a problem if another practice works for them.

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Is the tahajjud prayer, waking and praying at night to worship, the best way to gain favour with Allah and attain closeness? Is the hadith that this is the best time to ask God true?

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Mufti Abu Layth says God is not restricted to certain times or places but is always with you.

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“god is not restricted to certain temporal spatial uh availability he is always with you”

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right the prophet should know the quran better than the companions in pakistan a lot of people have glorified hazrat umar a lot um i've heard some more about his intellect than even the prophet and the hadith if there was to be a prophet after umar would be after the prophet would be omar let me just come to that question salaam was the quick question by nisar uh is the hajjut prayer and waking praying at night to worship at night the best way to gain favor of allah and to attain closeness is this hadith on if you make dua this is the best time to ask god

it is mentioned in hadith but you know look there is it's a time of solitude and reflection but it doesn't have to be the time god is not restricted to certain temporal spatial uh availability he is always with you it's just about getting into that moment so you know the brain it has it works at certain um not just capacities but the brain waves are registered electrically at certain hertz that the way it operates and you will have

alpha beta ironically um you know alpha is not people assume alpha is a good state to be alpha is more about relaxing being in a relaxed state but beta is actually the normal state that people operate at and then you'll have theta delta which are going into sleep states and then arguably there's a contestable gamma state which you know is from what 38 hertz up to arguably 100 people have argued for this that this is where certain enlightenment happens now

what we do know as a fact is that people state of mind is altered okay now yes in solitude breathing sometimes helps that you can control it but um sometimes being in that kind of reflective platform gives you that but it doesn't have to be the hatred you don't have to think that was just encouraged in light with that lifestyle if your lifestyle is different and something else works for you that's fine as well you have to remember for that arab lifestyle that worked it may not work for people today if you need to wake up at six a.m for work you know

waking up at three wouldn't would just ruin that for them so you don't need to feel that that's a problem okay as to uh the question on um um here is the hadith this is uh one of the hadiths this is in termiti there is a there's other kind of variants to it as well in the muslin

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-01-12-S40, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 12). Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God? [Video, segment 2021-01-12-S40, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God?" Video, segment 2021-01-12-S40, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 12, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/

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  title = {{Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {1},
  date = {2021-01-12},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-01-12-S40, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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