5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Beginning with, “Essalâmu ’alaika yâ sayyidî, yâ Rasûlallah...,”
you say the long prayer in the (above-named) book. You say the
salâms sent (by others) through you. Then, first saying the salawât,
you say the prayers you choose. Then, moving one metre to your
right, you greet Hadrat Abû Bakr by saying the long prayer in the
book which begins as, “Essalâmu ’alaika yâ khalîfata
Rasûlillah...” Then, moving half a metre to your right you greet
Hadrat ’Umar by saying the long prayer in the book. Then you pray
for yourself, for your parents, for those who asked you to pray for
them, and for all Muslims. Then you come back opposite
Rasûlullah’s blessed face. You say the prayer in the book and also
other prayers which you will choose. Then you come to the pillar to
which hadrat Abû Lubâba tied himself and made tawba (penance).
Here, and in the Rawda-i-mutahhara, you perform supererogatory
or qadâ salât. You make tawba and pray. At your own discretion,
you should also visit Masjîd-i-Kubâ, Masjîd-i-qiblatayn, the
martyrs of Uhud, the graves at Baqî, and many other sacred
places.”
Ibn Qayyem says, “You say your prayers by turning your back to
Rasûlullah’s grave. Likewise states Abû Hanîfa.” It is written in
Durer-us-seniyya that “Alûsî, too, states so in his tafsîr.” However,
all the savants of Ahl-as sunna write that you say your prayers by
turning toward the blessed grave while putting the qibla wall behind
you. Even Alûsî, who is a follower of Ibni Teymiyya and Ibni
Qayyem, is reasonable enough not to hide the fact, and writes in
his Ghâliya: “After performing two rak’ats of namâz in Masjîd, you
come to the Hujra-i-sa’âda, turn towards his blessed face and,
standing with adab as you would do if he were alive, say salât and
salâm and say the prayers prescribed by the Sharî’a. For,
Rasûlullah is alive in his grave too. Most savants say that it is a
sunna to come from far away places only to visit the blessed grave.
For, a hadîth declares, ‘He who comes to visit me and only
visits me without doing anything else will have the right upon
me that I should intercede for him.’ Another hadîth declares, ’I
acknowledge the greeting of the person who greets me.’”
Abdulhaq-i-Dahlawî ’rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ aleyh’ says in Persian in
his book Jazb-ul-qulûb: As the Masjid-i-sherîf was being built, two
more rooms were built, one for Aisha and one for Sawda
‘radiyallâhu anhumâ’. Then, a room was built for each wedding, and
the number of rooms became nine. It being a custom in Arabia, the
rooms were made of date branches and were roofed with hair felt.
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