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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15– You should give alms, as much as you could afford.<br />
16– You should visit your parents, or their graves and graves of<br />
Sâlih Muslims and Awliyâ. You should collect fayz from the souls<br />
of the Awliyâ.<br />
17– You should provide plentiful and sweet food for your<br />
family and children.<br />
18– You should perform plenty of namâzes; these namâzes<br />
should be performed as qadâ namâzes by people who have debts<br />
of namâzes (on account of the farz namâzes that they did not<br />
perform within their stated times), and those who do not have<br />
debts of namâz should perform them as nâfila namâzes.<br />
19– Friday should be dedicated to activities pertaining to<br />
worship.<br />
20– After the late afternoon prayer, you should, to the best of<br />
your ability, sit on your prayer rug and say, “Yâ Allah, yâ Rahmân,<br />
yâ Rahîm, yâ Qawî, yâ Qadîr,” and thereafter offer your<br />
benedictions.<br />
162– On Friday wear your lovely and new clothes! If you do not<br />
have new clothes, then wear clean clothes. Wind your turban<br />
standing, rather than sitting! Spray on a (proper) perfume and go<br />
out for Friday Namâz. For, angels like pleasant odours. Pleasant<br />
odours are sunnat for men; however, it is harâm for women to<br />
ornament themselves or to expose their heads and/or their arms as<br />
they go out. For, perfumes on women or their exposed heads and<br />
arms will attract men. They can use jewels and perfumes only<br />
indoors. As you walk on your way to the mosque for the Friday<br />
Namâz, make tesbîh and dhikr! You will be given ten thawâbs for<br />
each and every step you take.<br />
163– If possible, go to the mosque after making a ghusl, go<br />
there early for the namâz, and sit somewhere close enough (to the<br />
minber) to hear the Khutba. Do not talk with anybody as the<br />
Khutba is being performed! Do not look or turn right or left! For,<br />
talking during the performance of the Khutba is a sin that will<br />
deprive you of the virtues inherent in Friday. When you enter the<br />
mosque, sit at an occupied place, instead of jostling your way at the<br />
cost of annoying the (Muslims in the) jamâ’at! (Be early enough<br />
to) get your place in one of the front lines! If you are late, do not<br />
annoy others by pushing your way through the jamâ’at. It is not<br />
farz for a Muslim too old or too unhealthy to walk to perform<br />
Friday Prayer.<br />
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