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Interrogation disrupts Ramadan prayer trip

Waking up very early is never easy, at least for me, especially on a cold night. You always get this whispering in your ears telling you to keep sleeping.

It was around 4 a.m. and in my preparation for Ramadan, I was planning to go to one of the San Diego mosques, which was having a night prayer. I like night prayer, an optional prayer in contrast to the five mandatory daily prayers. In night prayers, you leave the world concerns behind you, when most people are asleep, and stand praying to God, confessing your wrongdoings and asking Him and only Him for forgiveness. That was my intention, to pray side-by-side to other members of my Muslim community, listening to the words of God recited to us by the Imam, who leads the prayer reciting from Quran.

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