Documents of the Right Word

I am so fast asleep, shame on me! If I loved Thee,
Before pigeons, the earliest mourner I would be.
18- Essence of advice is to explain what it means to worship and
obey Allâhu ta’âlâ. Tâ’at and ’ibâdat means to adapt oneself to our
Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. In other words, it means to
modify all one’s speech and behaviour so as to be in compliance
with his commandments and prohibitions. That is, whatever one
says or does and whatever one does not do or say should be
intended to carry out his commandments. You should know very
well that the deeds which you perform in the name of worships are
not worships at all, perhaps they are sins, if they are not His
commandments. This is the fact, even if those deeds are in the
form of namâz or fasting. In fact, as you know, it is sinful and an
act of disobedience to fast on the first day of ’Iyd of Ramadân
and/or on any or all of the four days of ’Iyd of Qurbân. Although
fasting is a kind of worship, it is sinful (to fast on those days)
because it is not a commandment. Likewise, it is sinful also to
perform namâz in clothes or at a place usurped from others.
Although namâz is a kind of worship, it becomes an act of
disobedience because it is not a commandment (to usurp others’
clothes or place in order to perform namâz). Likewise, it is a kind
of worship and causes thawâb to play and joke and entertain
oneself with a girl with whom one is married through nikâh
(marriage contract prescribed by Islam). It is stated in a hadîth-isherîf
that there are many blessings in this act, although what is
done is merely entertainment. Yet it causes much thawâb because
it is a commandment. As it is seen, to worship does not mean only
to perform namâz or to fast. To worship means to obey Islam’s
commandments. For the same reason, namâz and fasting become
worships when they are performed compatibly with Islam’s
prescription.
19- Then, adapt all your words, all your actions to Islam! For all
sorts of learnings and studies that are disagreeable to Islam,
whosoever does them, are deviations from the right way and will
incur estrangement from Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is for this reason that our
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ revoked, replaced the
teachings and customs that were the continuations of the era
previous to him. Then, one should not open one’s mouth without
Islam’s permission, and you must know very well that the way
shown by Allah cannot be followed under the guidance of the
knowledge you have acquired. You must know also that this way
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