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Hazrat Fuzail said: If you cannot keep awake at night and keep fast at day time, know that you have been deprived of good and that your sins have become great. Rubi said: I spent many nights in the house of Imam Shafeyi. He used to sleep very little at night. Abu Zuairiya said: I stayed once at the house of Abu Hunifa for six months. He never kept his side on his bed for one single night. At first he used to keep awoke for half the night. While passing once by a people, he heard them say:
This man keeps awake the whole night. He said. I don't do it.
After-wards he used to keep awake the whole night. The sage Malek-b-Dinar said: One night I forgot my duty and began to sleep. I found in dream a beautiful young girl with a letter in her hand saying to me: Can you read this letter? I said Yes. She handed over to me the letter which contained:-

What! joy and hope have destroyed you!
Has youf mind forgot the hope of Hurs?
You will stay in paradise withoutdeath.
You will make enjoyment then with Hurs.
So rise up from sleep, i t is best for you.
Reciting Quran in Tahajjud is better than sleep.

Mosruq once started on pilgrimage and spent the whole night in prostration. It is narrated that Wahab-b-Munabbah did not place his side on bed for thirty years. Solaiman Taimi prayed Fajar for 40 yeaTS with theablution of Isha.

CAUSES OF MAKING NIGHT-WAKING EASY

Know, O dear read ers, that night waking is difficult for many persons but it is easy for one who has got by God's mercy the secret and open conditions of night- waking. The open conditions are four-(I) Not to eat and drink much It begets sleep and there is trouble in prayers. A certain Sufi used to advise his disciples: O congregation of disciples, don't eat much, don't drink much. If you do it, it will increase your sleep and you will repent much at the time of your death. To reduce stomach from the burden of food is good. (2) Not to make too much labour at day time, as too much labour brings too much sleep. (3) Not to give up a little sleep at day time as it is sunnat for night waking (4) Not to commit sins at day, as it makes the heart hard and creates barrier to get mercy of God. Sufi van Saori said: On account of one sin, I have been deprived of prayer at night for five months.
He was questioned: What is that sin? He said: I said in my mind on seeinga man weeping: Thisheisdoing for show of people.

SECRET CONDITIONS OF NIGHT WAKING

(1) To keep the mind safe from hatred of the Muslims, from innovations and the sorrowful thoughts of the world. If a man is

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engaged in worldly pursuits, it does not become easy for him to pray at night. If he stands in prayer, thoughts of his worldly actions come in his mind.

(2) to keep fear of God strong in mind and to lessen hope When a man thinks of Hell and of the next world, his sleep goes away and fear comes in his mind.