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

A person who says, “I am a Muslim,” has to learn the essentials
of îmân and Islam and the farzes and harâms unanimously taught
by all four Madhabs, i.e. taught by ijmâ’ (consensus) and esteem
them highly. It is not an ’udhr not to know them. That is, it is like
knowing them and denying them. “The entire body of a woman,
with the exception of her face and hands, is awrat, (that is, it must
be covered,) in all four Madhhabs.” If a Muslim indifferently
exposes a part of his or her body on which there has not been an
ijmâ’, i.e. which is not awrat according to only one of the other
three Madhhabs, he or she will have committed a grave sin
according to his or her own madhhab, although they will not
become a kâfir (unbeliever). An example of this is men’s exposing
parts between their knees and groins. It is farz for a Muslim to
learn what he or she does not know. Once they have learned about
it they have to make tawba immediately and cover that limb of
theirs.
A BELIEVER’S QUALIFICATIONS
There are seven rights that a Believer has to observe with
reference to another Believer:
To participate in his invitations;
Iyâdat, [i.e. to visit him when he is ill.]
To go and take part at his funeral.
To offer him advice.
To greet him (as is taught in the sixty-second chapter of the
third fascicle of Endless Bliss).
To rescue him from a tyrant’s oppression.
To say, “Ye-r-hamukallah,” when he sneezes and thereupon
says, “Al-hamd-u-lillah.”
The good Believer is the one who has developed the following
six faculties:
He performs worship. He learns knowledge. He does not do
evil. He avoids harâms. He does not cast covetous eyes at anyone’s
property. He never forgets death.
A note: It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “Everyone will like
people who do them favours. This liking is inherent in the human
nature.” A person who is indulgent towards the desires of his nafs
like people who help him to attain the desires of his nafs. A wise
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