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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thawâbs will be recorded. It is farz to acknowledge a greeting. [1]<br />
The book entitled Merâq-il-felâh, before its chapter dealing<br />
with the mufsids of namâz, provides this information: “It is<br />
makrûh to make salâm by bending the head or the body. Another<br />
way of salâm that is makrûh is a mere hand gesture, such as one<br />
that is made by raising the hand to the head. It is not makrûh to do<br />
so orally or to make a hand gesture as well. It is not makrûh to<br />
meet a newly arriving superior standing, unless the new comer<br />
enjoys being treated like that. If he enjoys it, it will be makrûh<br />
(only) for him. It will not be makrûh for a person who stands up<br />
for fear of the new-comer’s mischief. The same rule applies to<br />
standing up for a person leaving. Hand-kissing is all right when the<br />
hand to be kissed is your master’s or the Sultân’s, [a State<br />
authority’s] or (one of) your parents’.”<br />
189– Do not be hasty in your acts and decisions! The Satan will<br />
interfere with hastily made decisions. A hadîth-i-sherîf reads:<br />
“Haste is devilish, and teennî (unhurried behaviour) comes from<br />
the Rahmân (All-Compassionate).” When something that your<br />
nafs likes occurs to you, the Satan will say, “Don’t miss the chance!<br />
Do it outright!” When something comes to your heart, you must<br />
wonder whether it will please Allâhu ta’âlâ if you do it, see if it will<br />
bring thawâb or incur sinfulness if it is done, and do it if it is not<br />
something sinful. Thus you will have acted with composure,<br />
instead of doing it hastily. This rule has only five exceptions to it,<br />
where haste is preferable:<br />
1– When you have a guest, bring something for them to eat!<br />
2– When you commit a sin inadvertently, make tawba and say<br />
the Istighfâr outright!<br />
3– Make haste in performing your namâz five times daily; in<br />
other words, perform them early!<br />
4– Teach your daughters and sons their religious knowledge,<br />
e.g. how to perform namâz! When they reach the age of puberty,<br />
see to their entering a marriage without any delay!<br />
5– Make haste in the interment of a person who is dead! [But<br />
the haste should not cause you to omit the âyat-al-kursî and the<br />
tesbîhs that are performed at the end of each of the daily five<br />
namâzes!]<br />
[1] The sixty-second chapter of the third fascicle of Endless Bliss enlarges<br />
on salutations and greetings.<br />
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