Reasons That Would Help the Muslim Upon Establishing the Fajr Prayer
Question:
What are the reasons that would help the Muslim upon establishing the Fajr Prayer? Knowing that he goes to sleep early, however he does not awake till after the sun has risen?
Answer:
It is obligatory upon every Muslim that they fear Allaah, and that he pray the five (daily) prayers in their (prescribed) times, in the mosques with the congregations of the Muslims. And that he strives with all the means that aid him towards that, and from the means that will aid him in establishing the Fajr prayer in congregation are:
That he sleeps early (in the night), and that he sets the clock for a pertinent time, until he is establishing it in its (correct) time, and he is attending the Prayer with the congregation, and that he strives in asking Allaah for success and protection. And that he establishes the daily legislated supplications when he is about to sleep, and with this Allaah will grant him success, if Allaah wills, in establishing the prayer in its (correct) time and performing it with the congregation.
Source :
Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz
Volume 8, page 276
Translated by Abu Maryam Taariq bin 'Ali