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distinguishable. He will be put in a hollow on the mountain. In the Shafi'i Madhhab, one who
persists in not performing namaz does not become a murtad, but the punishment will be death.
That the Maliki Madhhab is the same as the Shafi'i in this respect is written in Ibni 'Abidin and
on the sixty-third page of the translation of Milal-nihal. And in the Hanafi Madhhab, he is
imprisoned until he begins namaz or beaten until bleeding. [However, he who attaches no
importance to namaz or who does not know it as a duty will be a kafir in all the four Madhhabs.
It is written in the subject of the afflictions incurred by the tongue in Al-Hadiqa that he becomes
a kafir according to the Hanafi Madhhab, too, if he neglects namaz intentionally and does not
think of performing its qada and does not fear that he will be tormented for this.] Allahu ta'ala
did not order non-Muslims to perform namaz or to fast. They are not honored with the
commandments of Allahu ta'ala. They are not punished for not performing namaz or for not
fasting. They only deserve Hell, which is the punishment for kufr. In the book Zad-ul-muqwin, it
is said: "Early savants wrote that he who does not do five things is deprived of five things:
1) He who does not give the zakat of his property does not get any benefit from his property.
2) In the land and earning of a person who does not give his 'ushr, there is no abundance left.
3) Health is absent in the body of a person who does not give alms.
4) Person who does not pray will not attain to his wish.
5) Person who does not want to perform a namaz when its time comes cannot say the kalima-i
shahadat at his last breath. A person who does not perform namaz because of laziness although
he believes that it is the first duty, is a fasiq. He is not the peer of a saliha girl, that is, he does not
deserve and is not suitable for her."
As it is seen, not performing the fard namaz causes one to die without iman. Continuing to
perform namaz causes the enlightenment of the heart and the attainment of endless bliss. Our
Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) declared, "Namaz is nur," that is, it brightens the heart in
the world and illuminates the Sirat in the next world. Do you know what happens to Allah's
beloved ones in namaz and how they attain to their wishes in namaz?
Story: Abdullah Ibn Tahir, the Governor of Khurasan, was very just. His gendarmes captured
some thieves and reported them to the Governor. One of the thieves escaped. A blacksmith from
Hirat was caught on his way back from Nishapur at night. He was brought to the presence of the
Governor with the thieves. The Governor said, "Imprison them!" The blacksmith performed an
ablution and namaz. He stretched his hands and supplicated, "O my Allah! You alone know that
I am innocent. Only You can free me from this jail. O my Allah! Protect me!" That night, the
Governor woke up just as four strong men were about to turn his throne upside-down in his
dream. He immediately performed an ablution and two rakats of namaz. He went to sleep again.
He again woke up upon dreaming that those four men were about to pull his throne down. He
realized that he oppressed someone. As a matter of fact,
the poem says:
Thousands of cannons and rifles can never make,
What the tears have made at the time of dawn,
The bayonets that make the enemy flee,
Are usually made into dust by a believer's prayer.
O Allah! Only You are Great! You are so great that superiors and inferiors, when in trouble,
entreat only You. Those who entreat only You can attain their wish.
The Governor immediately called the director of the jail at that night and asked him whether
there was a prisoner kept unjustly. When the director said, "I cannot know him. But there is
someone who performs namaz, prays much and sheds tears." The blacksmith was brought to the
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