Book of Namaz

Kinds of torment he will suffer in the grave are:
1- The grave will squeeze him. His bones will intertwine.
2- His grave will be filled with fire, which will scorch him day
and night.
3- Allâhu ta’âlâ will send a huge serpent to his grave. It is not
like worldly serpents. It will sting him at every prayer time daily. It
will never leave him alone any moment.
Kinds of torment he will suffer after rising are:
1- Angels of torment that will drag him to Hell, will never leave
him alone.
2- Allâhu ta’âlâ will meet him with wrath.
3- His account will be settled in a very vehement manner, and
he will be flung into Hell.)
THE VIRTUES OF THOSE WHO
PERFORM NAMÂZ
There are many hadîth-i sherîfs that communicate the virtues
of performing namâz and the rewards that will be given to those
who perform namâz. In the book (Eshi’at-ul-leme’ât) by
Abdulhaq bin Seyfuddîn Dehlewî, in the part containing some
hadîth-i sherîfs communicating the importance of namâz, it is
stated:
1- Ebû Hureyre ‘‘radiy-Allâhu anh” reports: “Rasûlullah “sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam” said: (Five daily prayers and Friday
prayer are atonements for the sins committed until the next Friday
and Ramadân fasting is atonement for the sins committed until
next Ramadân. They cause the venial sins of those who abstain
from commiting grave sins to be forgiven.) They annihilate those
venial sins - committed in the meantime - which do not involve any
rights of slaves of Allahu ta’âlâ. For those whose venial sins have
been forgiven and eliminated, five daily prayers and Friday prayer
cause the punishment for grave sins to be lighter. It is necessary to
repent for grave sins to be forgiven. If one has no grave sin, they
will cause him to reach higher grades. This hadîth-i sherîf is written
in the book (Muslim). Friday prayers cause one who has
deficiencies in performing of five daily prayers to be forgiven. If
his Friday prayers have deficiencies also, his Ramadân fastings
cause him to be forgiven.
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