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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power and who do not hear the truth although they have ears,<br />
Allâhu ta’âlâ states as follows in the hundred and seventy-ninth<br />
âyat-i-kerîma of A’râf Sûra of the Qur’ân al-kerîm: “They are only<br />
like quadruped animals; nay, they are even worse than animals.”<br />
And so are some people who always run after their sensuous<br />
desires although they have Muslim parents. They are Muslims only<br />
in name.<br />
CONCERNING ÎMÂN<br />
82– O son! Îmân means to believe with your heart. Jebrâ’îl<br />
‘’alaihis-salâm’ brought the ’aql (mind), the hayâ (shame, feeling<br />
of shame) and îmân (belief) to ’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’. And he<br />
said: “Yâ ’Âdam! Allâhu ta’âlâ sends His salâm to you, (i.e. He<br />
greets you,) and He asks you to accept one of the following three<br />
gifts.” ’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’ accepted the ’aql. Thereupon Jebrâ’îl<br />
‘’alaihis-salâm’ said to the hayâ and îmân: “You may leave.” Îmân<br />
said: “Hadrat Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded me to always stay with the<br />
’aql.” When the hayâ also said that Allâhu ta’âlâ had commanded<br />
it to do the same thing, both of them joined the ’aql and stayed in<br />
’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’.<br />
Consequently, whoever is blessed with the gift of ’aql by Allâhu<br />
ta’âlâ will be in possession of the hayâ and the îmân as well.<br />
Someone without the gift of ’aql will have neither hayâ nor îmân.<br />
One day a woman came to Hasan Basrî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’<br />
and asked: “Yâ Imâm! What is purity of faith? What is the essence<br />
of faith. And what is the treasury of faith?”<br />
Hasan Basrî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ replied: “You define them.<br />
And we will listen.” The woman said: “Purity of faith is to make an<br />
ablution? The essence of faith is to fear Allâhu ta’âlâ and to be<br />
bashful (to feel hayâ) before Him. Namâz is the power of faith.<br />
For, Hadrat Haqq ta’âlâ praises His slave who feels hayâ. The<br />
treasury of faith is ’ilm (knowledge). For, a person without an<br />
ablution will not have a pure faith. If a person does not feel hayâ<br />
and does not fear Allâhu ta’âlâ, they will not be in possession of an<br />
essence of faith. And a person without ’ilm will not have the<br />
treasury of faith.”<br />
Hasan Basrî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ admired these statements<br />
made by the woman and acknowledged that she was telling the<br />
truth.<br />
Îmân has been depicted as follows: Îmân resembles a fortress<br />
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