ENDLESS BLISS FASCICLE-4

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ASH'HADU ANNA MUHAMMADAN RASULULLAH: I bear witness and believe that
hadrat Muhammad 'alaihi wa alalihissalatu wa sallam' is the Prophet sent by Him, that he is the
communicant of the way of the worships liked by Him, that only those worships communicated
and shown by him are worthy of Allahu ta'ala.
HAYYA'ALASSALAH-HAYYA'ALALFALAH: These are the two words inviting believers
to the namaz, which brings happiness and salvation.
ALLAHU AKBAR: No one could manage the worship worthy of Him. He is so great, so far
from anybody's worship being worthy of Him or suitable for Him.
LA ILAHA IL-LAL-LAH: He, alone, has the right to be worshipped, for us to humiliate
ourselves before. Along with the fact that no one can do the worship worthy of Him, no one
besides Him is worthy of being worshipped.
Greatness of the honor in the namaz can be understood from the greatness of these words
selected for inviting everybody to the namaz.
A Persian line in English:
How prolific the year will be is predictable by its spring.
O our Allah! Include us among those who perform namaz as You like them to. Amin.
[It is written in the tafsir book Sawi, in the tafsir of the Surat-ul-inshirah, "Allahu ta'ala declared,
'I raise your name in the East and the West, all over the world'." When we travel one degree of
longitude toward the west, the times of namaz fall four minutes back. Every twenty-eight
kilometers westward carries the time of the same namaz one minute backward and the adhan is
repeated. Thus, every moment, all over the world the adhan is being called and the name of
Muhammad alaihissalam is being heard everywhere, every moment. It is written in the
explanation of Shir'at-ul-Islam, "When someone came to hadrat Abdullah ibni 'Umar and said, 'I
like you very much for Allah's sake,' he answered, 'And for Allah's sake I don't like you at all,
because you say the adhan melodiously like singing.' "]
13- IMPORTANCE OF NAMAZ
The book Durr-ul-mukhtar, at the beginning of its discourse on the subject about namaz, and Ibni
Abidin, while explaining it on the two hundred and thirty-fourth page of the book Radd-ulmukhtar,
state:
Since Adam (alaihissalam), there was namaz once a day in every Shariat. All that had been
performed were brought together and were made fard for us. Although performing namaz is not a
pillar of iman, it is a pillar of iman to believe that namaz is fard. 'Namaz' means 'dua'. The ibadat
that is commanded by the Shariat and which we all know was named 'namaz' (salat). Performing
the five daily prayers of namaz is fard-i 'ayn for every Muslim who has reached the age of
puberty. That it is fard is openly stated in the Qur'an and hadiths. Five daily prayers of namaz
became a commandment on the Miraj night. The Miraj happened on the twenty-seventh night of
the month of Rajab a year before the Hegira. Before the Miraj, only the morning and afternoon
prayers were performed.
A child must be ordered to perform namaz at the age of seven, and should be beaten if it does not
perform it at the age of ten. The teacher at the school, too, may beat the student three times with
his hands with the view of making the student study. He cannot beat him more than that. Nor can
he beat him with a stick. [There cannot be bastinados in Islamic schools. Cudgeling may have
taken place in a police station or in a jail. It will be a slander against Islam for the enemies of
Islam, for the purpose of estranging the younger generations from Islam, to represent Muslim
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