The sun sets over Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 13 January 2009
Laila El-Haddad writing from Durham, the United States, Live from Palestine, 13 January 2009
".....And so many people in Gaza have taken to doing just that: they are waking up for special pre-dawn prayers qiyam al-layl in the "last third of the night," a window of time when believers feel especially close to God and when it is said He is especially close to our calls upon Him, and supplications and prayers are most likely to be answered.
And so they tremble, and they wait, and they pray during this small window to Heaven for the gates of hell to be closed. And then it is dawn once again."
".....And so many people in Gaza have taken to doing just that: they are waking up for special pre-dawn prayers qiyam al-layl in the "last third of the night," a window of time when believers feel especially close to God and when it is said He is especially close to our calls upon Him, and supplications and prayers are most likely to be answered.
And so they tremble, and they wait, and they pray during this small window to Heaven for the gates of hell to be closed. And then it is dawn once again."
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