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presence of the Governor, who asked him questions, realized that he was innocent, begged his
pardon and said, "Please forgive me for having done an injustice to you, accept my gift of one
thousand silver coins and come to me whenever you have a wish!" The blacksmith said, "I
forgive you and accept your gift. But I cannot come to ask my affairs or wish from you." When
he was asked its reason, he said, "Does it befit a slave like me, a humble person, to take my
wishes to someone other than my Proprietor who several times overturned the throne of a Sultan
like you? He made me attain so many wishes of mine. How could I take refuge in someone else?
While my Rabb has opened the door of His Treasure of Endless Mercy and spread His Table of
Infinite Endowment for every body, how can I have recourse to others? Who has asked and He
has not given? Who has come to Him and returned empty-handed? One cannot attain if one does
not know how to ask. If one does not enter His Presence with proper manners, one cannot attain
His Mercy.
Poem:
Whoever puts his head on the threshold of worship one night;
The Darling's Kindness certainly opens thousands of doors for him.
Rabiat-ul-Adwiyya 'rahmatullahi alaiha', one of the great awliya, heard a man pray, "Oh Allah!
Open Your door of Mercy!" She said to him, "O you ignorant person! Has Allahu ta'ala's door of
Mercy been closed up to now so that you want it to be opened now?" [Though the source of
Mercy is always open, the hearts, the receivers, are not open in everybody. We should pray so
that they may open!]
Oh Allah! You, alone, are the One who relieves everybody from distress. Do not leave us in
distress in this and the next worlds! Only You are the One who sends everything to the needy!
Send auspicious, useful things to us in this and the next worlds! Do not leave us in need of
anybody in this and the next worlds! Amin." Translation from Riyad-un-nasihin is completed
here.
While beginning its subject about namaz, the book Kitab-ul-fiqh 'alal-madhahib-il-arba'a says:
"Namaz is the most important of the arch-stones of Islam. Allahu ta'ala made namaz fard so that
His slaves would worship Him only. The hundred and third ayat of Surat an- Nisa' purports that
namaz became fard, the times of which are definite, for the believers. A hadith ash-Sharif
declares, 'Allahu ta'ala has made it fard to perform namaz five times each day. Allahu ta'ala has
promised that He will send to Paradise a person who performs namaz five times each day
esteeming it highly and observing its conditions.' Namaz is the most valuable of worships. A
hadith declares, 'He who does not perform namaz has no share from Islam!' A hadith ash-Sharif
quoted in Mishkat, and in Kunuz-ud-daqaiq, and in Sahihayn, and in Halabi declares,
"Difference between man and disbelief is to give up namaz!" It does not mean, "Men and
disbelief are two separate beings. Between them lies not to perform namaz. When not to perform
namaz goes away from between them, that is, when a person performs namaz, the connection
between him and disbelief goes up, the two can not be united, and man will not be a disbeliever."
But it means, "Disbelief is a property. It does not exist alone. It exists with some people. People
who have disbelief have ' (not performing namaz)'. But people who do not have disbelief do not
have ' (not performing namaz)'. Difference between a person who has disbelief and one who does
not have disbelief is not performing or performing namaz." This hadith ash-Sharif is like the
saying, "Difference between man and death is 'not to breathe.' " A person who has death does not
breathe. But a person who does not have death, does not have (the property) "not breathing."
When a person does not breathe, it will be understood that he is dead. This hadith vehemently
threatens those who are lazy in performing namaz. To perform namaz is to realize one's
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