Reading time: 2 - 4 minutes

I begin by seeking aid in Allaah, the most Merciful, the One Who bestows Mercy

Verily, all praises are due to Allaah, and may the Salaah and Salaam of Allaah be upon His messenger. To proceed:

Guarding the Voluntary Actions

[Eemaan Booster]

Regularly performing Sunnah actions is one of the causes of Allaah loving a person, as it says in the hadeeth narrated by al-Bukhaari (6502) from Abu Hurayrah who said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah says: ‘Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it.”
[al-Bukhaaree]

This hadeeth also indicates that Allaah helps and supports the one who does a lot of naafil actions and protects his physical faculties: his hearing, sight, hand and foot.

Al-Khattaabi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

What is meant is that Allaah helps and guides His slave in the actions that these faculties do… He guides his physical faculties and protects him against falling into that which Allaah dislikes, such as listening to idle talk that he may hear, or looking at that which Allaah has forbidden, or striking that which it is not permissible for his hand to strike, or walking towards falsehood with his feet.

Someone else said: His limbs do not move except with the help of Allaah and for the sake of Allaah, and they all strive for the sake of the truth.
[Fath al-Baari]

No doubt the one who is like this, all his deeds are light (noor) and are guided by Allaah, and that increases the more naafil deeds he does.

Reading time: 3 - 4 minutes

I begin by seeking aid in Allaah, the most Merciful, the One Who bestows Mercy

Verily, all praises are due to Allaah, and may the Salaah and Salaam of Allaah be upon His messenger. To proceed:

Reciting the Qur’aan at Night

[Eemaan Booster]

It is proven in the saheeh Sunnah that the Qur’aan will intercede for those who read it at night, as Ahmad (6626) narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Fasting and the Qur’aan will intercede for a person on the Day of Resurrection. Fasting will say, ‘O Lord, I deprived him of his food and his desires during the day, so let me intercede for him.’ And the Qur’aan will say: ‘I deprived him of his sleep at night so let me intercede for him.’ Then they will intercede.”
[Ahmad]

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) stated that reading the Qur’aan at night is one of the blessings that the believer is to be envied for. He said: “There should be no envy except in two cases: a man to whom Allaah teaches the Qur’aan, so he recites it during the night and during the day, and his neighbour hears him and says, ‘Would that I had been given what So and so has been given and I could do what he does, and a man to whom Allaah gives wealth so he spends it all for the sake of the truth, and a man says, ‘Would that I had been given what So and so has been given and I could do what he does.’”
[al-Bukhaaree]

Reading Qur’aan at night saves one from negligence, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever reads ten verses at night will not be recorded as one of the negligent.”
[al-Haakim]

And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever observes these prescribed prayers regularly will not be recorded as one of the negligent, and whoever reads one hundred verses in a night will be recorded as one of the devout.”
[Ibn Khuzaymah and al-Haakim]

Allaah has described the pious as follows (interpretation of the meaning):

“They used to sleep but little by night [invoking their Lord (Allaah) and praying, with fear and hope].

And in the hours before dawn, they were (found) asking (Allaah) for forgiveness”
[al-Dhaariyaat 51:17-18]

Reading time: 1 - 2 minutes

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Reviving the Sunnah