Fajr Prayer Quotes

Fajr was always my favorite of those prayers because it was so short, only two rakats. The whole experience of the prayer fit tidily into the span of a single dream, a fifteen-minute sleepwalk into surrender, obedience, God, whatever. Smart, I thought, for God to demand prayer from his servants while their minds were still gummy with dream, while the partition between our world and his was thinnest.

I had told Imran how my father after his Fajr prayers would always bring fragrant motiya flowers for my mum and put them on her bedside. Imran listened, and as I would step out of the bathroom in the morning, I would be greeted by hand-picked roses and fragrant magnolias on my bedside and my pillow, laid out by Imran. It brought tears to my eyes. Even now, it brings a smile to my face, despite all that followed. He made me love him when I thought it wasn’t possible for me to love anymore.

Whoever persists in offering twelve rak‘ahs of Sunnah (prayer), Allah will build for him a house in Paradise: four rak‘ahs before Zuhr and two rak‘ahs after it, two rak‘ahs after Maghrib, two rak‘ahs after ‘Isha’ and two rak‘ahs before Fajr.