Suhūr
Definition
Suhur is the recommended pre-dawn meal eaten before the beginning of the fast. Al-Ghazali notes that the Prophet ﷺ described it as having barakah (divine blessing), and he identifies two dimensions of this barakah: the practical benefit of sustaining the faster through the day, and the spiritual benefit of waking in the last part of the night — a time that the Quran describes as especially close to Allah. The person who rises for suhur is already participating in the spiritual discipline of the night; if they add a few rakats of night prayer and some dhikr, they have made the suhur an act of worship in itself.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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