Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fourth Fascicle

excuses, is accredited to keep on with their ordinary routine of
performing the sunnats of their daily prayers, rather than
substituting them with the fards of the missed prayers. Yet the
basic Islamic books were written in those good old days when a
Muslim not regularly performing the daily five prayers could not
even be conceptualized in any Islamic country. Nor would anyone
omit any of the daily prayers without an excuse. And there were
few people, if any, who missed one or two of the daily prayers with
an excuse. But now, these people have omitted their prayers
without any excuse and have become very sinful. Seeing these
facts, in order not to die with debts of namâz, and to escape the
torment in Hell, those who have omitted their prayers without an
excuse should, at least, intend to make qadâ when performing the
sunnats of four of the daily five prayers. Yet, because the sunnat of
morning prayer is strongly emphasized, the sunnat of morning
prayer must be performed still with the intention of sunnat.
Hadrat Sayyid Abdulhakîm Arvâsî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, who
was an expert in the knowledge of fiqh in all four Madhhabs, said:
“Those who do not perform namâz because of laziness, and those
who have years of debts of namâz, when they begin to perform
their daily prayers of namâz, concurrently with the sunnat of each
of the daily prayers of namâz, should make their niyyat (intention)
to make qadâ of the fard of the (missed or omitted) earliest daily
prayer in serial correspondence with the namâz they are currently
performing. All four Madhhabs are unanimous on that they should
perform the sunnats by making their niyyat for the namâz of qadâ.
In the Hanafî Madhhab it is a grave sin to leave a namâz (that is
fard) to qadâ, (i.e. to omit it,) without an excuse. This very grave
sin becomes double as each free time that is long enough to
perform namâz passes. For, it is fard also to make qadâ of namâz
in your free time as soon as possible. To get rid of this terrible sin,
which cannot be calculated or measured, and for escaping its
torment, it is necessary to perform the sunnats of four daily
prayers, – with the exception of the morning prayer – and also the
initial and final sunnats of Friday prayer, and also the (namâz that
consists of four rak’ats and which is termed) sunnat of the time (of
Friday), by making the niyyat to make qadâ of the omitted fard
prayers, and to perform the Witr namâz instead of the final sunnat
of night prayer. Books written by Hanafî scholars contain many
evidences to prove that this is true.
“It is a grave sin to omit a namâz that is fard. It is necessary to
make tawba immediately. And worse is the sin of postponing the
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