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

commandment rather than for ostentation. However, it being a
wasteful and needless use of property to put on lights, to burn
candles or to run lighted advertisements during the day, it is not
permissible to do so. It is permissible to do these things or to send
your children to mixed schools where boys and girls are educated
together, if the government commands the people to do so.
Another place that is not permissible (for Muslims) to go to is one
where men and women are mixed and people expose their awrat
parts.” It is written in Ibni ’Âbidîn, in its chapters dealing with
‘Friday prayer’ and ‘Being a Qâdi’, that it is not permissible to
revolt against disbelievers’ laws, either. It is stated (by Islamic
scholars) that acts of worship performed in violation of rights of
Allâhu ta’âlâ’s slaves, (i.e. human beings,) will not be accepted and
will not help the worshipper to enter Paradise. It is stated also that
paying a non-Moslem’s rights is more difficult than paying a
Muslim’s rights. We do good to everyone and should not react to
evil doers in kind. A true Muslim will obey Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
commandments and the government’s laws.]
A blessed Walî’s company is hard to come by,
People who attain it won’t let it go awry.
One must look far and near to find the right guy;
A money-changer knows the gem, not a daft guy.
If you put a closed jug by a source of water;
Be it there forty years, it will still be dry.
Sohbat makes a heart pure, to make heavens envy;
What makes a man sage is not his garb chest-high.
First of all, have îmân, and cease from the harâm;
What the soul feeds on is not almonds on a pie!
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