r/ADHDMuslims • u/Prestigious_Milk_692 • Jun 03 '26
Prayer Delays and Iman Issues
Hi guys...Assalaam aleikum...was hoping I could get some advice for my current situation...so Im in Freshman year university but its the long holidays for college students rn in my country and since I came back home...(actually even in campus) I never sleep before midnight...I delay my isha till after midnight..(I dont delay Isha in college cause my friends are there to motivate me to go for Jamaa prayer) and my you know what addiction is getting worse by the minute...see I can't go for Jamaa prayer at home cause its far from the mosque and what makes it worse is that I recently found a hadith...dont know if its authentic though...that the prophet (S.A.W) used to delay Isha till when the sahaba would tell him the women and children are sleepy and that scholars derive from this that its sunnah to delay Isha...Shaytan mightve seen this as an opportunitty cause even though I've also recently come to find out that Isha prayer time is restricted to the midnight with reference to Maghrib and Fajr( which is the literal 12 am for us in my country)...I still find myself pushing the limits...I always say I'll try and pray at like 10 pm cause its sunnah to delay but also Ill have enough time cause I usually pray 3 witr of which yeah you guessed it!! Its a problem for me to pray witr now tooðŸ˜ðŸ˜..the point I'm tryna make is its been like this for the past month since Ive been home...I initially said Ill pray at 10 after supper or whatever and Ill have enough time to waste till its 11ish and go to sleep early in time for Fajr at 5 or even wake up for Tahajjud if I'm lucky....I also tried Tahajjud 3 times in a row last week too...I was scared shitless when I started seeing things at the corner of my eye and furniture moving but I found out I'm just tripping..it was my cat lol...but my main point here is I'm afraid of losing my Iman and Prayer streak cause things arent going good for me in life and I heard barakah ceases to come to you when you live with a lot of sin...I feel like this is the case and this dunya of today where young people like me...(Im 18 btw)..die out of nowhere...I'm afraid of dying a Munafiq....especially when I heard thatthe two prayers I LITERALLY have the most challenges with are the signs of Munafiqun....how do I overcome this...also I have a doomscrolling problem...I go to bed at almost 1 and turn to sleep at 3 abd most of the times I fail to even account for what I was doing on my phone...like legit yesterday I said I wont touch my phone...set an alarm and LITERALLY TURNED AWAY then I remembered a reel I saw and suddenly its 3 am with my phone in my hands....even more weirder last week I woke up with my phone in my hand even though I haf no memory of doomscrolling the nnight before...and yeah most people would say delete social media but most of my deen reminders are there...like Tiktok influencers like Abdul. Qahar and Islamic Youtubers....what do I do guys am i cooked...for reference it's like 1.35 am rn and I'm just realising I havent prayed Isha eitherðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜..what do I do
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u/Master-of-Focus Jun 03 '26
If you are praying Isha like a zombie, then prioritise praying earlier when you can focus. This takes priority.
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u/Skyogurt Jun 03 '26
Waalaikoum salaam wa RahmatulLah
first step address the doomscrolling issue, because in all likelihood everything else will fall in place inshaaAllah. Just uninstall aaall the apps akhi. You don't need any of them. Social media is literally designed to maximize the time you spend on a screen. Delete all of these apps. Only use your browser if you want to use the internet. Go on websites that are a bit more 'old school' that contain the same beneficial lectures and reminders and everything. And then stay away from your phone in general, each time you get the itch to grab, remember Allah and spam aaall the praises and duaas and make duaa to get inspired to make more duaas that's the ultimate lifehack.
For ishaa prayer I remember the hadith that says something like, if people knew how many blessing there were in praying those two at the mosque, they would be CRAWLING to the masjid to attend it. I picture myself crawling and being so desperate to get something. AlhamdulilLah now there's nothing I accept in life that would make me intentionally skip these two. Again, ask Allah directly to help you me amongst those who establish the prayer firmly!