Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 · 14 Jul 2020 › Segment 37 of 42

Does Islam want me to sacrifice sleep?

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Does Islam emphasise giving up sleep?

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This segment2:10:28 to 2:12:50 · 2 min 22 sGeneral teaching

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No: Islam emphasises being effective, not losing sleep, and you can get your full sleep and still be effective.

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After struggling to read a blurred super chat, Mufti Abu Layth makes out a question on whether Islam emphasises giving up sleep. He says he does not think so, though it depends: sleep is sometimes associated with inactivity, and like motivational speakers who urge waking early and sacrificing sleep to chase dreams, Islam does emphasise being effective. But it is not against sleep; one can get all one's hours of sleep and still be effective. He then fields some chat banter.

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Do you feel there is an emphasis on giving up sleep in Islam?

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Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Islam emphasises giving up sleep, but rather being effective.

In his words

“it's not necessarily an T sleep it's just trying to say that be you know effective so you could still get all your hours of sleeping but just be effective”

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2:10:28

you hmm that's I can't seem to have gotta get right clothes or given up sleep what emphasis on giving up sleeve prayers and Indian sir right so yeah but I've covered this whole aya sofya thing in much detail

2:10:55

do I feel there's an emphasis on giving up sleep in general in Islam [Music] I hmm I don't think so although generally you will get a lot of you see it depends because people might associate sometimes sleep with because of its inactivity and inactivity in life so you know people when they're speaking about like if you're watching a lot of motivational videos they speak about waking up early doing things you know sacrificing sleep to chase your dreams and I suppose there is that in Islam as

2:11:35

well it does emphasize that but it's not necessarily an T sleep it's just trying to say that be you know effective so you could still get all your hours of sleeping but just be effective that's what it's trying to emphasize really yeah I hope that makes sense and you said you never got my my email okay my message I'll send it to you again I'm pretty sure I did somebody said I've tried to cram my question or wrastling if you if they well if that wasn't the question just mention it and I'll get to

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, July 14). Does Islam want me to sacrifice sleep? [Video, segment 2020-07-14-S37, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/37/

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  title = {{Does Islam want me to sacrifice sleep?}},
  year = {2020},
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  date = {2020-07-14},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-07-14-S37, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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