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

same ’udhrs as the aforesaid ones concerning namâz on an animal;
you stop the carriage and perform it in the direction of Qibla. If
you fail to stop it, then you perform it like doing so aboard a sailing
ship.” If a person who is (on a long-distance journey and who is
therefore called) safarî cannot sit on the floor or turn towards the
Qibla on the means of transport, he imitates one of the Shâfi’î and
Mâlikî Madhhabs and makes jem’ of two successive prayers of
namâz when he gets off the vehicle. [1]
It is not permissible for a
person who is able to sit on the ground (or floor) to sit on a chair
or in an armchair and perform namâz with îmâ. Performing namâz
on a bus or on an aeroplane is like performing it on a carriage. A
person who sets out for a long-distance journey and who makes his
niyyat (intention) to travel a distance of three days, i.e. eighteen
fersâh (parasang) = 54 miles [54 x 0.48 x 4 = 104 kilometres] from
the outskirts of the city or village, becomes (a person who is) safarî
by the time he leaves the outskirts of the city. According to Ibni
’Âbidîn, a mile is equal to 4000 dhrâ’, and a dhrâ’ is equal to
twenty-four [24] fingerwidths. [A fingerwidth is a length equal to
two centimetres. In the Shâfi’î and Mâlikî Madhhabs, 16 fersah =
48 miles = 48 x 0.42 x 4000 = 80 km.]
Come on, let’s perform namâz, and wipe rust off our heart,
You cannot be close to Allah, unless you perform namâz!
Wherever namâz is performed, all your sins are dumped,
You can never reach perfection, unless you perform namâz!
In Qur’ân al-kerîm Haqq praises namâz a lot,
He says, “I shall never love you, unless you perform namâz!”
A hadîth-i-sherîf: Îmân won’t be manifest
At all on your outer person, unless you perform namâz!
Not to perform namâz, of all sins, is the gravest,
Penitence won’t do, unless you perform omitted namâz!
He who disdains namâz will lose his îmân outright,
He will not regain his Islam, unless he performs namâz!
Namâz purifies the heart, and bars it from guilt,
You can never be enlightened, unless you perform namâz!
[1] Please see the fifteenth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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