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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when they wake up at night will attain all their wishes: ‘Lâ ilâha ill-Allâhu<br />
wahdahu lâ sherîkalah, lahul mulku wa lahul hamd-u-wa<br />
Huwa ’alâ kulli shey’in qadîr subhânallâhi wa-l-hamd-u-lillâhi wa<br />
lâ ilâha il-l-Allâhu wallâhu ekber wa lâ hawla wa lâ quwwata illâ<br />
billâh-il-’aliyy-il ’adhîm.”<br />
180– Say the Âyat-al-kursî as you leave your house! Thereby<br />
you will be successful in everything you do and will manage useful<br />
works. Rasûlullah ‘’alaihis-salâm’ stated: “If a person says the<br />
Âyat-al-kursî as he goes out, Haqq ta’âlâ will order seventy angels<br />
and those angels will pray and say the Istighfâr for that person<br />
until he comes back home.” If you say the same âyat when you are<br />
back at home, whatever you do between the two âyat-al-kursîs, all<br />
your doings will be useful and you will be protected against<br />
poverty. Put on your right shoe first! And as you go out from your<br />
home or from a mosque, step out with your left foot!<br />
181– Avoid making a jimâ’ (coitus) without saying the Basmala<br />
beforehand! Otherwise, the Satan will join you. Do not copulate<br />
on the night of the ’Iyd of Qurbân (the night between the ’Arafa<br />
day and the first day of Qurbân); towards the sun; towards the<br />
stars; under a fruit tree; in the presence of a child; in the Qibla<br />
direction; during a menstrual period; and do not make a jimâ’<br />
rapidly like a cock or in long intervals! After a coitus, do not make<br />
a ghusl before urination! Do not make a coitus hungry or thirsty or<br />
with your stomach full or lying on your left flank! The<br />
recommended manner is to make it with your both knees on the<br />
ground (floor, bed, etc.), and to make a ghusl immediately<br />
thereafter.<br />
If you teach Islamic knowledge and Islamic ethics to your<br />
children, they will be useful both in worldly matters and in the<br />
Hereafter. Imâm Ghazâlî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ states: “If a person<br />
becomes junub and delays the ghusl until one prayer time is over,<br />
that person shall be made to put on a jacket of fire (after death).”<br />
Do not sit too long in a public bath! Do not expose (the part of<br />
your body) between your navel and your knees as you are in a<br />
public bath! It is harâm both for men and for women even when<br />
they are in a public bath (occupied by people of their own sex) to<br />
open their awrat parts. Both people who do so and those who look<br />
(at others’ exposed awrat parts) will be accursed.<br />
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