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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elieves their statements will become an unbeliever by rejecting a<br />
fact stated by Allâhu ta’âlâ. All religious cults unanimously say<br />
that the ’âlam was created from nothing and will be annihilated<br />
again. Another connotation concomitant with philosophers’<br />
statements is that creatures should not need Allâhu ta’âlâ for<br />
staying in existence and that Allâhu ta’âlâ should be unable to<br />
annihilate their existence. We see events wherein objects and their<br />
attributes come into and go out of existence. [For instance water in<br />
the sea evaporate and turn into vapour, clouds, particles, snow and<br />
ice. One state of water ceases to exist and another state comes into<br />
being. Allâhu ta’âlâ, who creates states of substances from nothing<br />
and annihilates their existent states, has the power to create the<br />
substances themselves from nothing and to annihilate the<br />
substances that exist. All today’s religions have among their credal<br />
tenets belief in resuscitation after death and existence of Paradise<br />
and torment in Hell. In 1989 Missouri, the world’s largest warship,<br />
came to Istanbul. There were too big churches in it. They had<br />
printed an English version of the Bible, which they call the Holy<br />
Book. It had been bound in Morocco leather. A copy of it was<br />
being given to every visitor as a present. Our modern compatriots<br />
say that they admire Europe and America. In the name of<br />
imitating Europeans and Americans, they enjoy themselves with<br />
morphinomaniacal and drunken women and girls in hotel rooms,<br />
parks and beaches. They call these eccentricities modernism. And<br />
they call Muslims fuddy-duddies because they believe Paradise<br />
and Hell and obey Allah’s commandments. Since they do not call<br />
believers the world over fuddy-duddies, what they call modernism<br />
must be sensuous and bestial desires and hostility towards Islam.<br />
SECOND VOLUME, ELEVENTH LETTER<br />
Allâhu ta’âlâ did not leave human beings to themselves. He did<br />
not allow them to do whatever they wished to do. He did not let<br />
them indulge in their sensuous, natural and bestial desires in an<br />
excessive and freakish way and thereby drift into perdition. He<br />
showed them ways of enjoying their desires and pleasures so that<br />
they should lead a comfortable and peaceful life and attain endless<br />
happiness and commanded them useful things so that they should<br />
earn happiness both in this world and in the Hereafter. And He<br />
prohibited them from doing harmful things. These commandments<br />
have been called the Ahkâm-i-shar’iyya as an ensemble. A person<br />
who wishes to lead a comfortable life in the world and to attain<br />
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