how to power nap?

[yhy]

Sure brother,

The talk is called "Scheduling through sunnah", www.sacredlearning.com --> General Talks session --> recorded on 5.22.2009. I listened to it long time ago but its very beneficial. Try to download all those talks and lectures and burn a CD or use your mp3, ipod and listen. The point is to really absorb the advices. Repeat them and listen to them often. InshaAllah, youl benefit much.

Brother, sunnah way of sleeping is a "method", not the number of hours.

Method: You recite the supplication before going to bed, turn to your right, this position should be facing the qibla, put your hand under your cheek and legs slightly flexed.

This method is known to be medically beneficially in numerous ways ! But our intention should be that we are only following sunnah and not anythign else.

Brother planning of days depends on so many things like responsibilities, commitments, work etc. If you can provide some more information about your day, how you are currently spending it and how you would like to (goals), then inshaAllah, brothers or sisters will be able to help you.

Shaykh Hussain Abdul Sattars talks are very very beneficial. I will try to listen to this one, and other related ones, and implement the advices.

I wasnt very clear, but i was referring to the times of the day to sleep and not the way to sleep. I usually work from 16.00 to 23.30, but sometimes in the day time. I have class aswell, but usually just a couple of times a week. I find it very difficult to sleep from (best case scenario) like 00.30 to ~4.00 (fajr right now) and then stay up to try to benifit from the blessed time. For example: every advice concerning memorization of the Quran mentions the time after fajr. But if i just sleep a couple of hours im usually not at all fit to memorize Quran. But on the other hand, if you go to sleep after fajr, the sleep you get is not very beneficial.. which i ofcourse feel aswell. And soon fajr will not enter at all in Sweden, and the timetable i follow sets it at 1.15 (other ones at 00.45). Its very tricky to plan your life according to the sunnah when everything around you follows another clock.

Now it seems like im just nagging away.. But i want to build a solid foundation, and im quite weak and need quite alot of quality sleep to function well. And the mashaikh of this age seems to advice us to be moderate in the jihad against the nafs (see for example the Path to Perfection where the Shaykh mentions that we shouldnt sleep less than 6-7 hours).

[Maripat]

Mikael (AS) and Gibrael (AS) are OK. What are Azrael (AS) and Israfeel (AS) upto is the thing that disturbs the nap, power or not.

[Student_Of_Knowledge]

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I have trouble getting to sleep, it takes me 30-40 minutes to sleep then I have to wake up. It seems I have racing thought while trying to get to sleep...I know some people/shuyookh sleep for 10-15 minutes in the middle of the daym then get up and ready to go! How do they do it?

jazakallah khairun.

I guess it takes lot of time to you to catch sleep and you are not having enough sleep .
Dua before sleeping
Allahumma qini 'azabaka yauma tab'asu 'ibadaka
Allahumma bismika amutu wa ahya
also read tasbeehat before sleep it will cause you to catch sleep.

[zahed73]

salaams- i heard that power napping is important Islamically because the kuffar way of 9-5 work is not the way we are made to be living. I try to nap a little after fajr and before work (I know this is not the best time, but there is no other time i can nap) and I have trouble getting to sleep, it takes me 30-40 minutes to sleep then I have to wake up. It seems I have racing thought while trying to get to sleep...I know some people/shuyookh sleep for 10-15 minutes in the middle of the daym then get up and ready to go! How do they do it?

jazakallah khairun.

Naps are not the solution for you from what you said above . I know what you mean about taking a long time to go into deep sleep . It happens to me too . 60 minutes after I lie down at night my 'sleep mode' .starts.

Only thing that helped me is regular work out . Nothing gives you a good sleep as when you have a tiresome but mentally satisfying day.

If your a lazy guy like me the best nap is after a hearty meal in the afternoon on off days.
I always feel refreshed.
They say nap before meal is silver and nap afterwards is gold.
Of course too much sleep and laziness is bad for you.

I understand from previous posts nap in the noon is a sunnah ,
I understand the benefits now.
Its not just the body but the mind and brain benefits as well.

[amr123]

The efficiency of the nap depends a lot on the 'time' we sleep. Here is a few good points on it:

Very good points mentioned by Sheikh Hamza Yusuf on positive and negative sleep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL0a4...ilpage#t=2441s

I have forwarded it to 40:41 mins.

The points mentioned :

1. More Zikr one does, less sleep one needs.
2. Every hour of sleep Before midnight(midnight= mid point between Maghrib and Fajr) is equal to twice amount of sleep.
ie one hour of sleep before midnight = 2hours of normal sleep.
3. Sleeping in the time from Asr to isha is negative sleep. ie it is as if one did not sleep.
4. Sleeping after Fajr till sunrise is also negative sleep.
5. Sleeping At noon ie after Dhuhr is positive sleep, which is equal to twice of normal sleep.

[Sarah Mc]

Asalam Alykum wrwb,

Brother try to avoid:
1. Sleeping immediately after Fajr
2. After Asr
3. at the time maghrib

Sleeping at these times will block sustenance and rizq.

Power napping in islam is the sunnah nap after Zuhur. It amazingly coincides with the physiology of our body very well. .

Also, be aware of sleep debt. Sleep is something that cannot be missed, if your avg sleep is for 7 hours and if you sleep for 5 hours in a day, then your body will demand for the extra 2 hours and youl have to give it back to your body as debt.

And brother the 10 - 15 min sleep is only for the ulema and shuyukh, the people of Allah SWT, not for us !
If we power nap for 15 mins, we tend to get more exausted as our body is wide awake and we are trying to shut it down.

To sleep on time -
1. Avoid coffee/tea atleast 6 hours before bedtime
2 Avoid Fat, spicy food.
3. Drink milk before bed (known to be sleep inducing)
4. Do not read, work or talk on bed. Bed should be = sleep. (adjust your subsconcious mind to this)
5. Sleep on your right, stay still, breath in and out, slow and long and then recite the kalima.. youl fall asleep.

Hope that helped.

Wa alykum asalam

I must admit that I do often sleep again after Fajr, especially with sunrise being so early from April onwards.

I find the best time to nap is after lunch, whether that be before or after Dhuhr. I'm trying not to nap though, since I'm inpatient at the minute with anorexia and there's not much to do... so I'm trying to ensure that I get enough sleep at night and can actually fall asleep, too.

Also, apparently, peanut butter and banana sandwiches / toast is supposed to induce sleep? I couldn't be doing with that combo myself it's a hot, unsweetened soya milk for me, thanks!

They do say though, that everybody is individual (obviously) and sleep quality is more important than quantity (meaning the number of hours). I normally get about 6½ hours, but I'm aiming for 8 at the minute, which is why I'm trying to stop napping in the early afternoons.

[white-falcon]

Asalamu Aleikum

since i am studying in University - it is impossible for me to sleep at noon time - coz i come back home at around 4 30 pm or 5 00 pm . so when should i take a power nap ? or a little amount of sleep ? coz power nap refreshes mind

[Maripat]

Asalamu Aleikum

since i am studying in University - it is impossible for me to sleep at noon time - coz i come back home at around 4 30 pm or 5 00 pm . so when should i take a power nap ? or a little amount of sleep ? coz power nap refreshes mind

Others will answer that one but there are other things that you can do. Mercilessly cut down your SF time to half an hour. And no more than an hour on the net in general. Try to finish your academic work in the free time between the classes. Lastly and more importantly go to sleep as early as you can - that should be most sacred in planning.

[sudoku]

My problem with power napping isn't that I can't fall asleep, it's that when I wake up I have huge throbbing headaches that continue throughout the whole day, effectively doing the opposite of what a power nap/qaylulah is supposed to help with. I don't feel refreshed at all. For this reason I don't sleep at all during the day, which makes me extremely tired by 9:00 pm as I don't go to sleep after Fajr.

Is there any cause as to why these headaches occur, and what the solution could be?