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

lackening the scholars of Ahl as-sunnat who have been defending
Islam for more than fourteen hundred years and their protectors,
the Ottomans. They are falsifying the true Islamic teachings which
those blessed scholars extracted from the Nass (âyats and hadîths).
Some Wahhâbîs say, “We, too, are in a Sunnî Madhhab. We
are in the Hanbalî Madhhab.” This claim of theirs is similar to the
claim of the adherents of the heretical group called Mu’tazila, who
say, “We, too, are Sunnî Muslims. We are in the Hanafî
Madhhab.” They say so because they know that people who are
not in the Sunnî group shall go to Hell. The fact, however, is that
the harmonizing of the religious practices and acts of worship of a
certain group of people with those of one of the four Madhhabs
does not necessarily show that those people are in that Madhhab.
Being in a certain Madhhab requires adapting oneself to that
Madhhab both in tenets of belief and in practices. All four
Madhhabs are identical in their tenets of belief. All four of them
are in the Madhhab of Ahl as-sunnat in respect of belief. A certain
person’s being in the Hanafî or Hanbalî Madhhab requires his
holding a belief agreeable with that of the (credal) Madhhab called
Ahl as-sunnat. Wahhâbîs do not hold the Sunnî belief.]
CONCERNING FOOD and EATING
There are ten benefits in washing your hands before meals in
an awareness that it is an act of sunnat (to wash your hands then):
If a person washes his hands before a meal and puts his wet
(index fingers on the inner corners of his eyes and moves his
fingers, gently in contact with the lids of his well-nigh closed eyes,
backwards until they reach the outer corners of his eyes, that
person, with the permission of Allâhu ta’âlâ, will not have a sore
eye. The ten benefits are:
1– An angel below the ’Arsh-i-Rahmân will hail: As you have
cleaned your hands, likewise you have been cleaned from your
[venial] sins.
2– He will earn as much thawâb as he would if he had
performed nâfila namâz.
3– He will be secured against poverty.
4– He will attain thawâb equal to that which is granted to
Siddîqs.
5– Angels will make istighfâr for him.
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