5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Ahl-as sunna that it is permissible to present the thawâb for the
first group to the deceased and that the thawâb will reach them
and will be useful for them. So is the case with praying, which is
in the third group. That the case is so with the second group
has been argued by most savants. There has been
disagreement among the four Madhhabs about those of the
third group with the exception of saying prayers. In the
Madhhabs of Hanafî and Hanbalî the third group are like the
first group. Hasan (radiyallâhu ’anh) says, “If you say the
prayer, ‘Allâhumma Rabb-al-ajsâd-ilbâ liyeh wel’izâminnahirat-illatî
harajat min-ad-dunyâ wa hiya bika
mu’minatun. Ad-hil-aleyhâ rawhan min ’indika wa salâman
minnî,’ when you enter a cemetery, you will be given as many
thawâbs as the number of the deceased there.” Here we end
our translation from the booklet Atfâl-ul muslimîn. Imâm-i
Shâfi’î and Malikî (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihimâ) said that the
thawâb for the worships done with the body is not given to the
deceased ones. But later Shafi’î savants said that if it is made
by the deceased person’s grave and gifted, or if you make it
(read Qur’ân al-kerîm, say a prayer, etc.) at a distance and then
“O my Rab, please make equal amount of thawâb reach (the
deceased),” it will reach the deceased.
A hadîth-i sherîf, which is written in the explanation of
Shir’at-ul islâm, states, “The most valuable worship to be
done by my Umma is to read Qur’ân al-kerîm by looking at
the Book.” And it is written in Kitâb-ut tibyân, “The best
recitation of the Qur’ân al-kerîm is the one done in salât.” [A
hadîth, which exists in the ninety-third letter of the third volume
of Maktûbât by Hadrat Muhammad Ma’thûm (rahmatullâhi
’aleyh), declares, “Recitation of the Qur’ân done in salât is
more useful than that which is done outside of salât.” This
hadîth-i sherîf is written in Hazînat-ul esrâr together with its
documentaries]. Hadrat Alî (radiyallâhu ’anh) stated, “A hundred
thawâbs are given for each letter of the recitation of the Qur’ân
done when standing in the salât. When it is recited (or read)
with an ablution outside the salât twenty-five thawâbs are given
for each letter. When it is recited without an ablution ten
thawâbs are given. And fewer thawâbs are given if it is recited
when walking or doing some work.” Reading one âyat and
thinking of its meaning produces much more thawâb than
reading the whole Qur’ân and thinking about something else. It
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