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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to account (on the day of Judgment).<br />
206– Do not fear death! And do not ask for death, either! Our<br />
Prophet ‘’alaihis-salâm’ stated: “Remember death, and pray as<br />
follows: Yâ Rabbî! If death is good for me, then please kill me! If<br />
longevity is good for me, then please make me live on!”<br />
Attend funerals and offer your service! For the Grace of Allah,<br />
shovel some earth into the grave! The earth that you shovel will be<br />
added to the scale of your good deeds on the Rising Day. A<br />
detailed account of services to be offered to a janâza is provided in<br />
the 14 th ., 16 th. and 17 th. chapters of the fifth fascicle of Endless<br />
Bliss.<br />
GRAVE–VISITING<br />
207– O <strong>Son</strong>! Our Prophet ‘’alaihis-salâm’ stated: “A person<br />
who visits a Believer’s grave will atain thawâb in the presence of<br />
Haqq ta’âlâ more than the thawâb to be given for a nâfila hajj.”<br />
Say the ‘Âyat-al-kursî’ and the ‘Fâtiha Sûra’ and the Sûra that<br />
reads, “Qul-Huwallâhu...,” for the Grace of Allah, and send the<br />
resultant thawâb as a gift to the souls of the dead Muslims! Invoke<br />
(Allâhu ta’âlâ) to make your prayer contain the souls of all<br />
Believers, so that you will attain thawâbs equal to the number of<br />
all dead Believers!<br />
208– The heresy called ‘Wahhâbism’ was founded by British<br />
mischiefmakers throuh a Nejdî named Muhammad bin ’Abd-ul-<br />
Wahhâb. That ignoble man died in 1206 [1791 A.D.] He wrote<br />
various books for the purpose of implementing the British plans<br />
the world over. His book entitled Kitâb-ut-tawhîd was<br />
commentated by his grandson named ’Abd-ur-Rahmân, who<br />
entitled his commentary Fath-ul-mejîd. That person died in 1258<br />
[1842 A.D.]. Quite a number of passages from the commentary can<br />
be paraphrased as follows: “A corpse is quite devoid of senses. Its<br />
soul has attained the ’Ind-i-ilâhî. Mulhids ask for help and<br />
intercession (shafâ’at) from the dead with the conviction that dead<br />
people’s souls are operative. This behaviour of theirs is shirk<br />
(polytheism). Angels, Prophets or Awliyâ can not help anyone. A<br />
dead person is either in Paradise, enjoying the blessings there, like<br />
Hadrat Huseyn, or in Hell, being tormented there, like the<br />
abominable polytheist named Tijânî and idols named Muhyiddîn<br />
Arabî and ’Umar ibn-ul-Fârid. They are unaware of the prayers<br />
addressed to them. People who argue that dead people will hear<br />
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