The Lantern

A flame that lives on your prayers.

The lantern is a lamp in Hayya whose flame is your last seven days, with today counting most. Praying on time feeds the flame; the morning and evening adhkār put the glass up around it; letting a prayer's window run out sinks it. Everything below is computed on your device from your own prayer log, and only there. The lantern mirrors the log, nothing more. Allah alone knows the hearts.

Nothing alive is drawn: no face, no figure. A lamp can carry all of this on its own, and a flame that is fed, sheltered, or blown at needs no expression to be read.

In Hayya since version 1.3.0. The lantern lives on the Home screen, on its own page in the app, and as a home-screen widget on iOS and Android. The widget changes the moment things change, even with the app closed.

Strength: the five tiers

Strength runs 0–100. Each prayer is worth 14 answered on time (within half an hour of the adhan), 8 answered late, and nothing if its window runs out. The morning and evening adhkār are worth 12 each, the before-sleep list 6. As the day fills, today takes up to 65% of the whole measure, so a neglected day visibly sinks the flame by nightfall, and one sincere day lifts most of it back.

Radiantstrength 85+: bright brass, a tall flame, sparkles
Strong65+: burning steady, full brass
Steady45+: where everyone begins
Fading25+: the brass dulls and the flame drops
Depletedbelow 25: down to an ember

What the flame is doing

The flame’s behaviour is the last few hours, not the week.

Joyfulsparks off the flame, for 45 minutes after a prayer is marked prayed
Contentupright and steady, while strength holds
Sadguttering and smoking, for 3 hours after a prayer is lost
Wearylow and soft, when strength is low

The shield

The adhkār are called a fortress for a reason. Keep one day perfectly, all five prayers on time and the morning and evening lists finished, and tomorrow the flame burns behind glass. Neglect today's protection and you can watch the glass wear: it cracks before it breaks.

Glass, wholea perfect yesterday: all five on time, morning & evening adhkār finished
Glass, crackedtoday's protection unsaid, or a grace slipping. Finish the lists to mend it
Glass, brokena prayer was lost today, and the flame stands in the open; a new perfect day puts the glass back
No glass earneda plain lamp: keep one whole day perfectly to earn the glass

The whispers

Left unguarded, the waswas draws near: smoke rising at the edges, then gusts pressing on the glass, and a flame that leans away from them. Never a figure, never a face, only smoke and moving air. Each open door brings it one step closer, and each deed done shuts one. Say the day's adhkār, answer the prayer that's waiting, and the whispers retreat.

A whisper, farone door open: usually adhkār unsaid past their reminder
At the glasstwo doors open: add a prayer's on-time grace slipping, and the flame starts to lean
Besiegedthree doors open: a prayer lost on top, and the light itself withdraws
Glowingseven days with all five prayers kept: the whispers find nothing

The road from here

The lantern's page in the app always shows both directions from this moment: the deeds you could do right now and exactly what each would restore ("Finish the evening adhkār, +6 strength, the shield mends"), and the next moment things worsen if nothing is done ("at 6:52 PM the whispers draw closer"). Both come from the same arithmetic that draws the lantern, so the promise is always kept.

In a sentence

Pray on time and say your adhkār, and your lantern burns bright behind whole glass. Let the day slip, and you'll watch the glass crack, the whispers arrive, and the flame sink, until one prayer begins the road back.