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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Of all Believers (who will be sent to Hell for a temporary stay<br />
on account of their sins), the ones who disobeyed the Islamically<br />
lawful commands of their parents who followed the way guided by<br />
Islam will be the last group to go out of Hell.<br />
148– Our Prophet ‘’alaihis-salâm’ stated: “Obedience and<br />
doing favours to parents will yield more virtues than the virtues of<br />
nâfila namâz and nâfila hajj, [i.e. going out for an ’Umra.] People<br />
who serve their parents will be blessed with longevity with plenty<br />
of barakat. Life of people who disobey and offend their parents<br />
will be short and poor in barakat. A person who disobeys their<br />
parents is an accursed one.”<br />
Hasan-i-Basrî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ was making ziyârat and<br />
tawâf of Kâ’ba, when he saw someone making tawâf with a basket<br />
on his back. He turned to that person and inquired: “Friend,<br />
wouldn’t it be better if you made tawâf after putting the load on<br />
your back somewhere?” That blessed person replied: “What I<br />
have on my back is not a load; it’s my father. This is the seventh<br />
time that I have been carrying him all the way down from<br />
Damascus and making tawâf with him on my back. It is him who<br />
taught me my religion, Islam, and îmân. And it is him, again, who<br />
brought me up with ethics of Islam.” Hadrat Hasan-i-Basrî said to<br />
him: “Supposing you made tawâf with him on your back since<br />
Doomsday; all the service you had done to him would disappear<br />
into thin air if you hurt him only once. In contrast, if you pleased<br />
him only once, it would equal that entire service.”<br />
149– Someone came to our Prophet ‘’alaihis-salâm’ and said:<br />
“Yâ Rasûlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’! My parents are<br />
dead. What should I do for them?” Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu<br />
’alaihi wa sallam’ replied: “Always make duâ for them! Read (or<br />
recite) (sûras and âyats from) the Qur’ân al-kerîm and say (the<br />
prayer termed) Istighfâr on their behalf!”<br />
One of the Sahâba ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ inquired: “Yâ<br />
Rasûlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’! Is there any other thing<br />
that we can do additionally?” The blessed Prophet said: “Give<br />
alms and make hajj for them!” Someone came forward and said:<br />
“My parents are quite mercilless. How can I obey them?”<br />
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ replied: “Your mother<br />
carried you in her womb for nine months. She suckled you for two<br />
years. She took you to her bosom, fed you, hid you, and carried<br />
you around until you grew up. And your father brought you up,<br />
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