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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feeding you and enduring quite a number of hardships. He earned<br />
a living for you and made things easy and comfortable for you.<br />
They taught you your religion and îmân. They brought you up with<br />
an Islamic education. How can they be merciless now? Can there<br />
be a greater and more valuable instance of mercy?”<br />
150– Another story being told about parents is this: As Mûsâ<br />
‘’alaihis-salâm’ was communing with Hadrat Haqq ta’âlâ on the<br />
Tûr-i-Sînâ (Mount Sinai), he inquired: “Yâ Rabbî! Who is my<br />
neighbour in the Hereafter?” Haqq ta’âlâ stated: “Yâ Mûsâ! Your<br />
neighbour is butcher so and so living in a place called so and so!”<br />
Mûsâ ‘’alaihis-salâm’ visited the butcher and asked him if he would<br />
admit him as a guest. Being admitted as a guest, the time’s great<br />
Prophet began to stay there. At dinner time the butcher cooked<br />
some meat. Taking a basket hanging on the wall down, he fed its<br />
content, a woman consisting of bones only, with meat, and gave<br />
her water as well. Mûsâ ‘’alaihis-salâm’ asked: “What relation is<br />
there between you and her?” “She is my mother,” replied the<br />
butcher. “Old age made her this weak; I have been serving her like<br />
this every morning and every evening.” As the buther fed his<br />
mother, his weak and disabled mother was praying for her son:<br />
“Yâ Rabbî! Made my son a neighbour to Mûsâ ‘’alaihis-salâm’ in<br />
Paradise.” When Mûsâ ‘’alaihis-salâm’ heard this and gave him the<br />
good news: “Allâhu ta’âlâ has forgiven you and made you a<br />
neighbour to Mûsâ ‘’alaihis-salâm’.”<br />
151– If you should make a mistake and somehow offend one of<br />
your parents’ heart, try hard, beg, humiliate yourself, and do your<br />
best to make up to them! Parents have very great rights over their<br />
children. Always keep this fact in consideration and treat them<br />
accordingly!<br />
An important note: It is not permissible to disobey one’s<br />
parents, one’s teacher(s) or the government. If they command<br />
something forbidden by Islam, disobedience to them should still be<br />
avoided, and one should not commit a guilt or a sin.<br />
It is written as follows in the eighty-third (83) page of the<br />
translated version of Shems-ul-aimma Serahsî’s ‘rahimahullâhu<br />
ta’âlâ’ (d. 483 [1090]) commentary to the book entitled Siyer-ikebîr,<br />
(which had been written by Muhammad Sheybânî<br />
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’:) It is farz-i-’ayn to do favours to one’s<br />
parents and to protect them against harm and trouble. Since, on<br />
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