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

jamâ’at (for the daily five namâzes).
2– He will join the jamâ’at and perform namâz behind an imâm
[whose belief and fisq (sinfulness) are not so bad as to make him
an unbeliever].
3– He will accept the permissiblity of making masah on the
mests, (which is explained in detail in the third chapter of the
fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.)
4– He will not vilify any of the Ashâb-i-kirâm ‘radiy-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ‘anhum ajma’în’.
5– He will not revolt against the state.
6– He will not struggle or quarrel unjustly over religious
matters.
7– He will not entertain religious doubts.
8– He will know that everything, good or evil alike, is from
Allâhu ta’âlâ.
9– He will not accuse any Muslim among the people of Qibla
with disbelief [unless their ilhâd is certainly known].
10– He will give preference to the (earliest) four Khalîfas, (i.e.
Hadrat Abû Bakr and Hadrat ’Umar and Hadrat ’Uthmân and
Hadrat ’Alî,) over the other Sahâbîs.
CONCERNING the STATES of DEATH
O you poor weaklings, you run run away from death! “So and
so is dead. If I am near him, death may pass on to me by
contagion,” you say. When plague or another infectious and fatal
disease spreads over a certain quarter, you flee to another place. It
is harâm to hold such belief. A disease will pass on to you if Allâhu
ta’âlâ wills it to.
O you poor weaklings, what place are you fleeing to! Death is
an end you have been promised. Not even for a moment will death
be postponed! When your time of death comes, Khallâq-i-’âlam
(Creator of all beings) shall not allow you respite even as long as it
would take a twinkle. It will take place neither sooner nor later
than its predestined time.
Whereever a certain person’s destination foreordained by
Haqq ta’âlâ is, that person shall go to that place, leaving all his
property, family, and children. And his soul shall not be ordered
out unless he arrives in that place where his soil awaits him.
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