Ru & Joe,
You two asked me last night after Teraweek what is papa's modus operandi for this year's LailatulQadr.
Papa's answer is very simple....Papa just up the ante further compared to last year and make it more simple and succinct.
After 'presiding over' the family teraweeh, papa try to sleep at 9. Not sooo easy as the mind is like an overactive 9 year old!
My overgrown prostate wakes papa up usually every 3 hours , so by 12 midnight papa am already up and about.
"Subhanallah wa bihamdihih subhanallah hil Azim , astagfirullah wa atu bu ilaik " for half an hour to one hour depending on the mood.
"La ila haillallah ", for half an hour
"La ila haillallah hu wah dahu la syari kalah ..lahul mulk ku walahul hamd du.........wahuwa ala kullishai in qadir ", another half hour.
Then recitation of the Quran.
You guys know papa still ''merangkak like a new found mualaf baca quran'', so papa follow Shaykh Abdul Basit on the hand phone while having the hard copy in front, for 1 hour or so.
By then it is usually nearing to 4 am.
Time for Tahajud prayer, papa do 4 cycles of 2 rakaat each , in between , 200 selawat to the nabi.
By 5, papa could hear 'Bibik Noor' opening her kitchen office to make nasi goreng.
Papa 'wash' the night with my usual prayer of expiation, the solatul tasbeeh, 2 rakaat each , 2 cycle.
If you guys get to papa's age, and try doing this on a daily basis or even weekly, you both will pleasantly discover it is the 'sweetest' of Allah's gift to mankind, in the form of 'solat'.Of course Jo's tok guru like Dr Rozaimi and Maulanaapakahnamadiadah may not agree with papa.
But of course, when we have time papa will discuss with you guys about some ulama who chose to be "perpertual school prefects, and some moves on to join the lovers".Papa , am atracted to the Lovers.
While you guys sleepily trickle down for sahur at 530 am , papa try to complete solawat to the nabi another 200, to numerically complete a 1000 selawat 'cash' before subuh.
1000 is nothing magical about it. It is just a number, no sanad of course!!....a starter for the day for papa.
Before going to the hospital at 830, papa try to get a wink or two but 80 % of the time, the brain cannot rest.
The antidote is to listen to Khiai Muhammad Bhakiet's discourses or TJ Winter's etc etc,on the utube.
This give papa the necessary 'ammunition' to 'kacau' some of paps's friends on my broadcast groupings.
The rest of the day is just bonus for papa.
I try to do some zikr with some of Allah's sublime and magnificent names in the morning in between patients. ''Ya latif'' , is one of papa's very favourite..It is a very 'cooling' zikr.
It is a wonderful simple life, so far, and papa look forward to another great Ramadan, insyaallah in 2022.
Insyaallah!!
Papa
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