1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Imâm-i Zufar’s words, and then Hasan bin Zayyâd’s. Those
muftîs who are ashâb-i tarjîh (mujtahids within a madhhab)
choose the ones with sound documents from among ijtihâds.
Those who are not mujtahids follow the words which these
have preferred. The words of the muftîs and judges who do not
do so are not acceptable. This comes to mean that in the affairs
which are not chosen by ashâb-i tarjih it is necessary to prefer
the word of Imâm-ı a’zâm. As it is seen, the muftî has to be a
mujtahid in a madhhab. He who is not so is not called a muftî;
he is called a narrator, that is, one who conveys the fatwâ.
Conveyors derive the fatwâs from well-known books. These
books are called mutawâtir news.”]
A namâz may be accaptable if it has been performed in full
observance of its suhurût and âdâb (conditions and rules) and if
the mistakes in performing it have been compensated for
covered by saying the tasbîh, tahmîd and takbîr. Then one
should extend thanks (shukr) to Allahu ta’âlâ for enabling you to
perform namâz. And lastly, with sincerity, one must declare
through one’s heart the kalima-i tawhîd, which indicates that no
one other than Him deserves being worshipped. Such a
performer becomes one of those who performs namâz and who
attains salvation. Oh my Allah! For the love of the highest of
your prophets (alaihi wa ’âlâ âlihimussalawâtu wattaslîmât)
make us among those who perform namâz and attain salvation!
Âmîn.
53 – QUR’AN AL-KERIM IS THE WORD OF ALLAH
Sirri Pasha (rahmatullahi ’alaih), the Governor of Baghdad,
wrote in his book entitled Sirr-i furqân, on the seventy-fifth
page of the first volume of its third edition, which was printed in
Istanbul in 1312 A.H.:
A year before writing this book of mine, on a Friday, in Diyâri
Bekr [1] , we were sitting with the notables of the city. The
famous priest of Kaldânî, Abd-i Yasû’, well-known for his
profound learning of the Arabic language and of the knowledge
of religion, was among us. As I introduced those who were with
me to Mehmed Rashid Pasha, the governer of Mosul, my guest,
I said about Abd-i Yasû: “He is very deep in Arabic literature.”
So, eloquence became the major topic of our conversation.
[1] A city in southeast Turkey.
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