# Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God?

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

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/
- Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:54:37–2:56:34)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10477s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/

**Topics:** Prayer; Mindfulness and presence

**Question as asked:** 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?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says God is not restricted to certain times or places but is always with you.

**Evidence, his words at 2:54:37:** “god is not restricted to certain temporal spatial uh availability he is always with you” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10477s)

## Longer summary

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.

## Sources and names cited

- tahajjud
- dua

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:54:37–2:56:34)

[2:53:58] 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

[2:54:36] 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

[2:55:14] 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

[2:55:54] 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

[2:56:33] 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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/40. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/

Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.