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

after using) a miswâk yield more thawâb than seventy rak’ats of
namâz without (having used) a miswâk.
MUSTAHABS OF AN ABLUTION
There are six of them, as follows:
1– Not to utter with your tongue the niyyat which you make
with your heart.
2– To make masah on the back of your neck with the water
remaining from your ears.
3– Not to wash your feet in the direction of Qibla.
4– To drink, if possible, the water remaining from the ablution,
standing in the direction of Qibla.
5– To sprinkle some water on your clothes after the ablution.
6– To dry your limbs washed by means of a clean towel.
Ibni ’Âbidîn states as follows in his treatment of nullifiers of an
ablution: “If something which is not makrûh in your own Madhhab
is farz in another Madhhab, (in one of the other three Madhhabs,
that is,) it is mustahab for you to do it.” Imâm Rabbânî states in his
two hundred and eighty-sixth (286) letter: “Because it is farz in the
Mâlikî Madhhab to rub the limbs being washed during an ablution
gently with the hand, we, (in the Hanafî Madhhab as we are,)
should certainly do the rubbing.” Ibni ’Âbidîn states as follows as
he explains the talâq-i-rij’î: [1] “It is commendable for a Muslim in
the Hanafî Madhhab to imitate the Mâlikî Madhhab. For, Imâm
Mâlik, (leader of the Mâlikî Madhhab,) is like a disciple of Imâm
A’zam Abû Hanîfa, (leader of the Hanafî Madhhab.) When the
scholars in the Hanafî Madhhab were unable to find a qawl in the
Hanafî Madhhab (for the solution of a certain matter), they gave
their conclusive fatwâ in accordance with the Mâlikî Madhhab. Of
all the (other three) Madhhabs, the Mâlikî Madhhab is the closest
to the Hanafî Madhhab.”
MAKRÛHS OF AN ABLUTION
There are eighteen of them, as follows:
1– To splash–water–hard on your face.
[1] A kind of divorce, which is dealt with in the fifteenth chapter of the
sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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