Life in Gaza: Reading Our Night Surahs By Candlelight
Evey third day we lose electricity after ‘Asr prayer until around midnight–many hours after we’re already sound asleep because Maghrib’s sunset is around 5 P.M. So we typically recite our Night Surahs: Sajdah, Waqi’ah and Mulk right after we pray Salaat al-’Ishaa. There is no better way to spend our time staying up on a freezing, windy, cold night with no heat or light but to crawl underneath our many sheets. The girls are now accustomed to wearing hijab on these chilly evenings as night caps just in case their heads peek out of the blankets during the middle of the night.
While we always plan to sleep early, starting this routine after ‘Ishaa around 6:15 P.M., we always end up having wonderful bed discussions…and we still never sleep before our typical 9 P.M. bedtime.
We learned to enjoy our long night talks by candlelight, SubhanAllah.
Please share a candle lit night with your kids…appreciating all your blessings far beyond the convenience of electricity. Then let us know how it works out for your family, InshaAllah.
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Category: Islam
This sounds lovely, even if it isn’t intentional and inconvenient, I’m sure. Here in the Southern USA, our electricity only ever goes out during severe thunderstorms. My daughter always wishes that the lights will go out so that we can light the candles and enjoy some quiet family time. It’s possible to turn all of the lights off, but it isn’t the same. The silence that comes when the electricity goes off is something you can’t artificially create.
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mashAllah…Its a nice way for the family to bond and also to recite some surahs together.I hope I can do that with my kids inshallah
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Thanks for this nice post. I like the last part. I think it’s a very good idea to spend a candle lit night with your kids while you are giving thanks and appreciating the blessings that you had for the day.
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This is a kind of delightful activities in which full of enlighten things to be happen, a moment were never felt world end/ stop by..
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Candle light is a moment were you are raising your hearts and gratitude with your companion, its nice to conduct such this holy activity with our children in order that they can share their virtual feelings…
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It’s really hard stay in our home deem using a candle and make our night like dating with the concept of candle lit night, this is a moment were you can realized how important light is in our life…
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Candlelight, deem light, a moment were I and my children have a great talks for some matter… This is the time whereas they embraced me and I feel the warmness on their part… What a lovely feeling, cherish the moment as a mother to my children…
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