Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

others’ namâz is not, the unacceptable namâz of the latter group will
be accepted for the grace of the acceptable namâz of the former.
A hadîth-i-sherîf reads: “O my Ummat and my Sahâba! I have
put forth two paths for you: One of them is the Qur’ân al-’adhîm
ush-shân, and the other one is my Sunnat. A person who follows a
path other than these two is not my Ummat!” [’Abd-ul-Ghânî
Nablusî ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’ (1050 [1640 A.D.], Damascus –
1143 [1731]) states as follows in the ninety-ninth page of his book
entitled Hadîqa (and which is a commentary to the book entitled
Tarîqat-i-Muhammadiyya and written by Imâm Birgivî): While
Allâhu ta’âlâ announced a part of Islam by way of the Qur’ân alkerîm,
He announced its other part throught the Sunnat of His
blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. The Sunnat of
Rasûlullah consists of his beliefs, utterances, practices, moral
behaviour, and his tacit admission of someone’s act or statement,
[which was construed as his accepting (what had been done or
said).]” This hadîth-i-sherîf indicates the second one of the (four
Islamic sources called) Edilla-i-shar’iyya.]
IMÂMAT in NAMÂZ (in jamâ’at)
There are four kinds of people following the imâm (who is
conducting namâz in jamâ’at): Mudrik, Muqtedî, Mesbûq, and
Lâhiq.
1– Mudrik is a Muslim who makes the takbîr iftitâh together
with the imâm. (In other words, he says, “Allâhu ekber,” (almost)
at the same time as the imâm does so, which in turn means that he
has started to perform the namâz in jamâ’at together with the
imâm conducting the namâz in jamâ’at.)
2– A Muslim who fails to catch up with the takbîr iftitâh is
called muqtedî.
3– Mesbûq is a Muslim who (joins the jamâ’at and) starts to
follow the imâm after the imâm has performed one or two rak’ats
of the namâz.
4– Lâhiq is a Muslim who made the takbîr iftitâh together with
the imâm; however, he has undergone a state of hadas, (he has
somehow lost his ablution;) [1] he makes an ablution and resumes
his namâz behind the imâm. This Muslim performs the namâz
[1] Please see the second chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss
for ‘hadas’.
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