y: Dr. dr. Barita Sitompul SpJP
Every morning when we lived near the mosque it will be awakened at dawn call to prayer, which tells us to carry out the dawn prayer. For those who believe just as soon throw blanket and immediately ablution and prayer both at their homes or to the nearest mosque mushalla or on foot.
Might be a question
why the Lord commanded us up in the morning and dawn prayers?
A variety of answers from all disciplines will certainly encountered and dissected as well as provide answers that will benefit dawn prayers. Below will be reviewed a bit and hold a benefit dawn prayer, God's instruction since 1400 years ago.
In the dawn call to prayer will also hear other sentences compared with sentences that are voiced muezzin to prayer times subsequently. The sentence that sounds different and there is no on call to prayer at a later time is the "ash shalatu Khairun dominant Naum".
The meaning of prayer is better than sleep.
Have you tried just a little to live the phrase "dominant Khairun shalatu ash Naum"?
Why the sentence was just blown only on the dawn prayer, when we were all asleep, and not on another call to prayer to pray.
It's easy for us all to say that the dawn prayer is good because it obeyed the commands of Allah, Lord of the Nature,
Whatever his orders would benefit the lives manusia.Tetapi side where the benefit is?
What a lot of time in order to find sustenance, do not miss the train or bus because of traffic? At the time dulukan no stampedes as they are now all is well, for that review in terms of cardiovascular health is still interesting to observe.
To not winded word, the data suggested that the dawn prayer is useful because it can reduce the likelihood of cardiovascular disorders.
In MILIS study, GISSI 2 study and other studies abroad, which is believed to be an authentic research that it says the peak occurrence of heart attack most of the starts at 6 am to 12 noon.
Why is that?
Because at that time was a change in the body system in which an increase in sympathetic nerve stress (the term China: A) and decreased parasympathetic nervous tension (YIN). Increased sympathetic voltage will cause us ready for combat, blood pressure rises, the heart beats more strongly and so forth.
In the sympathetic nervous tension is increased then decreased blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm slows down is less strong. An increase in blood flow to the stomach to grind food, and reduced blood flow to the brain so that we feel sleepy, just who tends to a resting state.
At the turn of the early morning (starting at 3 am) until noon that secretly blood pressure gradually rises, increasing the effect of adrenaline increases blood pressure and constriction of blood vessels (vasoconstriction effects) and improve the properties of platelet aggregation (sticking together of the same nature other cells of blood platelets to clot) although we fall asleep.
Strange is not it?
This happens to all men, every day including you and me and your baby. This is called a rhythm Circardian / rhythm of everyday life, which by nature given by God to man. Why is that and what the benefits of God to explain the current ruling.
But what do the above with the phrase "dominant Khairun Naum shalatu ash"? Dawn prayer is better than sleep?
Indirectly this can be traced through research and Zawadsky Furgot which in 1980 issued in his research group of cells inside the arterial walls of blood vessels that are diseledikinya (scraped).
Normal blood vessels are not disposed of the cells lining the inner wall will widen if spilled a chemical substance that is:
Acetylcholine. In this study occurred weirdness, with the release of cells from the inner walls of blood vessels, the vessels were not dilated so that drops of acetylcholine.
The invention is of course caused an uproar in the medical world.
"So anyway that determines the widening or narrowing of blood vessels, something new discovery that has been so long, few tens of years studied but did not see you."
The study was soon followed by other studies around the world to know the substance of what is inside the cells inside the blood vessels are able to develop / expand the vessel. Of the thousands of studies have substance was discovered by Ignarro and Murad and called NO / nitric oxide.
All three studies were Furchgott and Ignarro and Murad received the 1998 Nobel prize.
NO substance is always produced, in a resting state and sleep is always produced, but production can be increased by drugs known as Nifedipine and nitrates and others but also can be improved with the move, with the sport.
Effect of nitric oxide is another to prevent freezing of the tendency of blood by reducing the aggregation properties / properties attached to each other than platelets in our blood.
So if we we wake up at dawn and moving, then it will give a good effect on prevention of cardiovascular disorders.
Rising levels of NO in the blood due to exercise of ablution and praying sunnah and obligatory, especially if accompanied walking to the mosque is a protection for the prevention of cardiovascular events.
Also worth noting that the position of bowing and prostration occurred straining process, this position increases the parasympathetic tone (against the effects of sympathetic tone). With exercise the body produces to fight the elevated levels of NO substance on the effect of adrenalin constricts blood vessels and make blood platelets cells grow wild and we so wanted to hug and hold.
Thus the power of God, his creations are always in pairs, day and night, hot-cold, and anti-NO NO-Contra.
God, has since the beginning of Islam came calling for dawn prayers. Only God does not clearly state the benefits of this because the level of human science and still have yet to find its own despite having to go through the time span of thousands of years.
Instructions for the benefit of the people is a sign of His love to His servants. Evidence of the benefits of God's instruction newly arrived 1,400 years later. Allahu Akbar.
Hopefully from now on we no longer see the prayer as a command
but see it as our needs.
So it does not feel heavy and forced in a run of worship and morning prayers always preceded by prayer Sunnah and if you can be the way to the mosque.
Congratulations morning prayers with gratitude to God be the gift of this.
Amien.