Aslam

It has been narrated that there was a man at the time of the Prophet who used to stand in prayer when the people remained asleep and recite theQuran and say: OLord of Hell, save me from it. Whenit was mentioned to the Prophet, he said: Call me when he prays. He came and heard him saying that. When it was dawn, he said to him: O man ' vhy don't you pray for Paradise? He said: O Prophet of God, I can't read i tnere as my actions havenotreached thatstaga Then Gebriel camedown and said: Inform him that God has saved him from Hell and admitted him in Paradise. Gebriel said to the Prophet How good Ibn Omar would have been if he would have prayed at night? The Prophet informed him of it. Afterwards he used to pray at night Hazrat Joynal Abedin said: Once Hazrat Ihya ate bread of wheat to his satisfaction and slept up to morning. God then revealed to him: O Ihya, you have considered your house better than My house, your neighbour better than My neighbours. O Ihya, by My glory and honour, if you peep at the garden of paradise, your fat will be swollen to get it and your soul will proceed forward. If you look once to Hell, your fat will melt and you will shed blood after tears and you will get new skin after your old skin has melted.

The Prophet was asked: a certain man prays at night but commits theft at dawn. He said: He will not do what he does. Tne Prophet said; May God show mercy on him who rises up at night and prays, then wakes his wife from sleep and she also prays. If she refuses, he throws water on her face. The Prophet said: May God show mercy on the woman who rises up at night and prays and then wakes up her husband and he also prays. If he refuses, she throws water on his face.
The Prophet said: If a man rises up at night and awakes his wife and both pray two rak'ats of prayers, both we regarded as remerrbering ones. The Prophet said: After compulsory prayer, the best puyer is prayer at night. The Prophet said: If a man sleeps in his appointed time or in any portion of it and makes divine service between Fajr and Zuhr, he worships as it were the whole night.

Wise Saying: Once Hazrat Omar fell down afiar reciting some verses at night and he was looked after for many days as patient is looked after. When the people went to sleep, Ibn Masud used to rise up and his voice used to be heard up to morning like the humming of bees.
Sufiyan Saori ate one night witn satisfaction and said: When an ass is

262 ZIKR AND INVOCATION Vol-I

given good grass,' its actions also become good. He prayed up to dawn.
Hazrat Hasan Basari said: I don't know whether it is better to spend this property in charity than to keep awake atnight. He was asked: Why do the Faces of those who pray Tahajjud become brighter than those of others? He said: Because they stay with the Merciful in loneliness and get light from His light.