O Son !

PRAYER for TEJDÎD-I-ÎMÂN
Yâ Rabbî! I repent for all the wrong belifs and blasphemies
that I have held and committed as a result of being misled by
enemies of Islam and people of bid’at and for all the heretical and
sinful things that I have uttered, listened to, seen and heard from
the very day I reached puberty until this moment; I am sorry for
them and I am determined, firmly resolved and quite purposeful
never to commit those wrong beliefs and acts. The first Prophet is
’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’, and the last one is our beloved Prophet,
Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salâm’. I believe these two Prophets and also
all the other Prophets that came between the two. All of them are
rightful and faithful. Their teachings are true. “Âmentu billâh wa
bi-mâ jâa min ’indillâh, ’alâ murâdillâh, wa âmantu bi-Rasûlillâh,
âmantu billâhi wa Melâikatihi wa Kutubihi wa Rusulihi wa-lyawmil
âkhiri wa bilqadari khayrihi wa sherrihi minallâhi ta’âlâ
wa-l-ba’thu ba’dalmawti haqqun eshhadu an lâilâha il-l-Allah wa
eshhad anna Muhammadan ’abduhu wa Rasûluh.”
Prayer for tejdîd-i-îmân: “Allâhumma innî urîdu ujeddid-al
îmâna wa-n-nikâha tejdîdan bi-qawli lâ ilâha il-l-Allah
Muhammadun Rasûlullah.”
102– Whenever Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ put
on new clothes he would say this prayer: “Al-hamdu lillâhilledhî
kesânî mâ ûriya bihi ’awratî.”
[Sayyid ’Abd-ul-Hakîm Efendi ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, Mujaddid
of the fourteenth hijrî (hegiral) century, would make the following
statements in his preaches in the various mosques in Istanbul, in
his lectures in the Madrasa-t-ul-mutekhassisîn and in the high
school at Vefâ and in his special sohbats: “Wear clean and new
clothes! Wear such clothes as will make you look like a person of
position and esteem! Wear clothes and consume food and sherbets
that are halâl as often and as much as necessary! Wherever you go,
exhibit Islam’s dignity and value with your behaviour and speech,
and inspire respect and interest with your attire! Eating a variety
of delicious food and drinking sweet and cool beverages, satisfy
and entertain your body and nafs.” These counsels on the part of
’Abd-ul-Hakîm Efendi are written in detail in the book entitled
Hadîqat-un-nediyya and written by Muhammad bin Suleymân
Baghdâdî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’. The book, in Arabic, was offset
by Hakîkat Kitâbevi in Istanbul in 1397 [1977 A.D.].]
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