3 Ways Our Practice of Salah (Prayer) and Dhikr (Meditation) Deeply Benefits Our Well Being

My eyes open in a gentle flutter, and I stretch to the musical purrs of my cat, Sage, at the foot of my bed. The sky is still in opaque darkness, and I feel a sense of welcomed aloneness as a new day has been gifted to me. This is the time of day, sandwiched between the night and the morning, that I feel most connected to Allah (S). My routine is simple: perform wudu, put on my robe, pray tahajjud prayers, make chai and begin writing.