To increase my iman I have tried to found some help in a couple of hadiths. I found especially two hadiths that can be helpful for me:
Few people, like me, do not find it hard to wake up if there is a plane to catch the next morning, or a lucrative job interview. This is because I am so desirous to take that trip or get that job, so my eyes open with vigor when the alarm rings. Sometimes I am awake even before the alarm, due to my anticipation.
Source:
http://seekersguidance.org/ans-blog/2011/04/07/the-importance-of-fajr-prayer-and-how-to-pray-it-on-time/
“Whoever prays the two cooler prayer times (i.e., Fajr and `Asr) will enter Paradise.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]. I pray asr most of the times and fajr rarely, so this is a must in my life if I want to have paradise. All is depending om my iman.
Ibn ‘Allan comments on that Fajr and ‘Asr were specified since they are two times when one can easily miss the prayer: whether they are lost in sleep during Fajr, or engrossed in trade and work at ‘Asr. It is understood that the one who prays these two, usually prays all five daily prayers.
Finally, the reward mentioned in the hadith indicates that the one who regularly prays Fajr and ‘Asr can be expected to have a good ending to their life: that they die upon faith as a Muslim. Which of us would not be eager to rise for the Fajr prayer if we truly understood the benefits: a death on faith and eternal success? [Ibn ‘Allan, Dalil al-Faliheen]
The only reason this does not happen as often for Fajr is because I haven’t attached the same importance to the Hereafter as I have attached to the worldly lives. My awe and sense of duty to Allah Most High is weaker than my desire for the ephemeral things around me.
But I want to be attached to Allah, however, and see Fajr as more important than the rest of the day’s affairs put together. I want to find it easy to rise to worship my Lord, in submission and gratitude. Then I'll find peace, which spurs me to rise again, in a positive cycle. Thus, its about breaking bad cycles and establishing good ones.
The most important thing to keep iman high is to pray the prayers in the first period of prayertime and remind me of death and the people in the graves and even visit them:
Source:
http://seekersguidance.org/ans-blog/2011/04/07/the-importance-of-fajr-prayer-and-how-to-pray-it-on-time/
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