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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Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “When a<br />
person enters a market place, he should say this prayer: ‘Lâ ilâha<br />
il-l-Allâhu wahdehû lâ sherîka leh, lehul mulku wa lehul hamdu<br />
yuhyî wa yumît wa Huwa hayyun lâ yemûtu biyadih-il-khayr wa<br />
Huwa ’alâ kulli shey’in qadîr.’ A thousand of his sins will be<br />
forgiven.”<br />
Open and close your shop with the Basmala! (That is, say,<br />
“Bism-Illâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm!”) When you buy something to<br />
eat, do not take it home uncovered; wrap it up; take your food<br />
home in a pracel! When you come home, make your children<br />
happy with something! Go to your shop late and close it early!<br />
[Teach and learn Islam’s practices at other times!]<br />
172– If you make friends with someone during a tour, walk as<br />
fast as he does. Do not look around as you talk with him! If you<br />
(have to) leave him alone (temporarily), rejoin him shortly, so that<br />
he will not have to wait long! Be heedful of his rights, and do not<br />
offend him! As you part, ask each other forgiveness for any<br />
possible ineluctable trespasses!<br />
173– When you visit an invalid acquaintance in his home, wait<br />
at the door before you enter and ask for permission! Enter with<br />
the Basmala, take a seat on the invalid’s right hand side, make the<br />
selâm, (i.e. say, “Selâmun ’alaikum,”) as you enter, and ask the<br />
invalid how they feel! Advise them a medicine if you know one.<br />
Say the Kelima-i-shehâdat loud enough for the invalid to hear, and<br />
wish them a quick recovery. Do not sit too long with the invalid!<br />
Meet their needs if there are any! As you leave, pray for their rapid<br />
recovery!<br />
174– Do not attend a janâza (funeral) on your own! You may<br />
go there alone if there is a pressing need to do so. Greet the<br />
kinsfolk of the janâza (by saying, “Selâmun ’alaikum,”) and offer<br />
your condolences by saying, “May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless you with<br />
patience!” Help them with the interment of the janâza! Carry the<br />
janâza, beginning with the corner of the coffin tallying with the<br />
corpse’s right shoulder, and join the procession walking. The<br />
sixteenth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss enlarges on<br />
the âdâb of carrying the janâza. Our blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu<br />
’alaihi wa sallam’ attended a funeral procession by walking to the<br />
cemetery and riding a vehicle on his way back. When he was asked<br />
the reason for doing so, he explained: “As the janâza is being<br />
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