Is it okay to pray with the lights off?

[RadiantSky]

Salaams :)

Sometimes I feel like I can concentrate better when I pray with the lights out, not completely out so that it is pure darkness but out so that there is just enough light so that objects around the room can still be visible faintly. I also feel the same when I pray with my eyes closed so that I don't get distracted. Is this okay?

Shukran in advance for your help :thankyou:

[Ramadhan]

I can't see and never heard why it is not okay to turn off the lights.

I'm sure during prophet Muhammad SAW times, they were not much of lights during the night no?

In fact, when I did some sort of workshops last year on how to perform shalah with khusu', one of the technique is to make the room go dark so we can concentrate more.

Also, qiyamulail (the night shalah, tahajjud, witr) is very very mustahhab (close to being fard) and the most mustahhab time is during the darkest part of the night.

[tango92]

i like it better with the lights out. relying on just whatever natural light you have. because it feels more natural

[Woodrow]

Those of us who have been born in an industrialized world after the late 1800s have been spoiled by the ability to have lights after dark at our own desire. I would suspect that until this era it was more common for prayers to be said under only natural light or no light at night time as candles and lighting oil etc were usually expensive and seldom used except by the wealthy. I can not find any reason to believe that to pray under the natural conditions Allaah(swt) gave us would be Haram. I think it would make more sense to question if it is permissible to pray under artificial lighting.

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[RadiantSky]

:sl:

Yeah its just that other day I was praying in my room with my lights out and first my mom comes upstairs and is going on and on about "why is she praying in the dark, doesn't she know that is now allowed." But I just kept praying...and then the second time around my bro litterly comes into my room and turns on the light while I'm praying. So this is why I was just wondering if there is any false in praying without the lights :x I just thought maybe they were rambling about it because it's in hadith, but I'm glad to hear that we can play without lights it truly helps me concentrate.

Thanks for the help ya'll :thankyou: