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By God’s grace and strength, I regularly perform the night prayer, but sometimes I do it less often, and I don’t know why—especially when I’m studying at university. I feel very upset when I sometimes lose the opportunity to pray it. Could you please explain what might cause this?
A lack of planning or a regular schedule, failing to make the night prayer a priority, excessive fatigue, and energy drained by other commitments can all keep us from this act of worship. Sometimes, too, a person may be deprived of it as a consequence of a particular action. At other times, divine kindness may temporarily withhold this opportunity to protect someone from self-conceit and pride, so that they return to the night prayer with greater longing.
Among the factors that may deprive a person of the grace to perform the night prayer are:
- A lack of planning
- Failure to set aside a specific time
- Not making it a priority
- Extreme fatigue
- The body’s energy being drained by other activities
- An action whose penalty is being deprived of the night prayer
- In some cases, divine grace takes the form of withholding this blessing, so that conceit and pride are brought to nothing
- The penalty for thinking oneself superior because of the grace of performing the night prayer is to be deprived of it
- God’s grace may extend even to deprivation, so that the habit becomes an ingrained quality, joined with longing and eagerness
- And so on…
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