O Son !
THE BOOK ‘O SON’ Al-hamdu lillâhi Rabbil ’âlamîn. Wa-s-salâtu wa-s-salâmu ’alâ Rasûlinâ Muhammadin wa Âlihi wa Sahbihi ajma’în. 1– O son! Collecting from books written by the scholars of the Hanafî Madhhab three hundred and sixty hadîth-i-sherîfs and forty-four khabars and also the seven essentials and the five rukns and the seven wâjibs and the fourteen sunnats and the twenty-five mustahabs and the fourteen mufsids of namâz, I have explained them for you. Adapt your acts and deeds to these teachings so that you attain fayz and nejât (salvation)! 2– Also for your information, I have collected a thousand and ninety âdâb (adabs) for you and for other young Muslims like you. If you adapt your actions and acts of worship to these teachings, they will be sufficient for you. If you laze, disobey Allâhu ta’âlâ and cease from these practices and manners, you will be afflicted with slavery and disgrace in the world and subjected to torment in the world to come. If you live up to them and advise your Muslim brothers to do the same, it will be useful for you. They will say blessings over you. And Haqq ta’âlâ will accept their invocations. For, a slave will be pardoned on account of another slave’s invocations for them.
THE BOOK ‘O SON’
Al-hamdu lillâhi Rabbil ’âlamîn. Wa-s-salâtu wa-s-salâmu ’alâ
Rasûlinâ Muhammadin wa Âlihi wa Sahbihi ajma’în.
1– O son! Collecting from books written by the scholars of the
Hanafî Madhhab three hundred and sixty hadîth-i-sherîfs and
forty-four khabars and also the seven essentials and the five rukns
and the seven wâjibs and the fourteen sunnats and the twenty-five
mustahabs and the fourteen mufsids of namâz, I have explained
them for you. Adapt your acts and deeds to these teachings so that
you attain fayz and nejât (salvation)!
2– Also for your information, I have collected a thousand and
ninety âdâb (adabs) for you and for other young Muslims like you.
If you adapt your actions and acts of worship to these teachings,
they will be sufficient for you. If you laze, disobey Allâhu ta’âlâ
and cease from these practices and manners, you will be afflicted
with slavery and disgrace in the world and subjected to torment in
the world to come.
If you live up to them and advise your Muslim brothers to do
the same, it will be useful for you. They will say blessings over you.
And Haqq ta’âlâ will accept their invocations. For, a slave will be
pardoned on account of another slave’s invocations for them.
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al-kerîm in its entirity once: ‘Âmen-er-Rasûlu...,’ and thereby<br />
performs this namâz, Hadrat Haqq ta’âlâ will bestow upon them a<br />
rank in Paradise and will reward them with thawâb equal to that<br />
for a martyr for each of the rak’ats (in the namâz) and also with<br />
thawâb equal to that for manumitting a slave in return for each<br />
âyat recited.” [The so-called thawâbs shall not be given to those<br />
who have debts on account of namâzes left to qadâ. They shall not<br />
escape from Hell unless they pay their debts.]<br />
42– Adore performing namâz! Perform your daily five<br />
namâzes, which are farz! Namâz five times daily is more virtuous<br />
than all other acts of worship. Namâz performed in jamâ’at is even<br />
much more virtuous. Never cease from performing namâz in<br />
jamâ’at without an ’udhr. It is a symptom of being a munâfiq to<br />
neglect namâz in jamâ’at without an ’udhr. It is an offence<br />
mentioned with damnation in all four heavenly books. When this<br />
is said about people who perform namâz on their own, just imagine<br />
the catastrophic end awaiting people who do not perform namâz<br />
at all! [A person whose belief does not agree with the creed of Ahl<br />
as-sunnat is either a heretic or a disbeliever or a murtadd<br />
(renegade). We should not perform namâz behind an imâm who<br />
holds such wrong creed, and we should not argue with such people,<br />
either. We should always be in good terms with others.]<br />
43– Perform your namâz with integrity, in ta’dîl-i-erkân and in<br />
hudhû’ and khushû’ during the rukû’ and the sujûd and the other<br />
erkân (rukns) of namâz. Someone was careless in fully observing<br />
the rukn and the sujûd and the ta’dîl-i-erkân as he performed<br />
namâz. When our beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’<br />
saw this he stated: “If this person continues to be like that he will<br />
not benefit from his deeds!” Namâz will not be complete without<br />
ta’dîl-i-erkân in its rukns. The performer will have made fun of<br />
namâz. When a person’s namâz is not a namâz, his faith will be<br />
imperfect as well. The Rasûl-i-ekrem ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa<br />
sallam’ stated: “Namâz is the mainmast of the religion. A religion<br />
without a mainmast will not exist.” Religion of a person who does<br />
not perform namâz will collapse. Again he stated: “Namâz is the<br />
Mi’râj [1] of a Believer.”<br />
44– Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “If a<br />
[1] Mi’râj is our blessed Prophet’s ascent to Heaven. Please see the<br />
sixtieth chapter of the third fascicle of Endless Bliss for details on the<br />
event.<br />
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