Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

(Hadrat Muhammad Ma’thûm means himself) had gathered some
of these prayers, tasbîhs and worships. Mawlânâ Muhammad
Hanîf borrowed (the manuscript containing) them. Spend most of
your time saying the word ‘lâ ilâha il-l-Allah.’ It is so effective in
purifying the heart. It will be good if you keep saying it for a while
each day. It can be said without an ablution as well as with an
ablution. Deem it as a capital for happiness to love the great guides
of this way. Know that this love is the strongest means for making
progress along this way. Translation of a Persian couplet:
I give you the key to the treasure you’ve been looking for!
Maybe some day you’ll get there, though we haven’t heretofore!
May Allâhu ta’âlâ give you and the other travellers of the right
way safety and facilities!
[The book Dürr-i yektâ Şerhi says that the word salât (namâz)
which is commanded in many âyats of the Qur’ân al-kerîm is the
prayer which is performed five times daily by doing the specific
acts which are commonly known. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’ stated that salât meant to do some particular acts and
to recite particular prayers, and he himself did so, too. The fact
that this is so was taught to the Tâbi’în by the Ashâb-i kirâm; then
they taught it to the Taba’i tâbi’în, and thus these teachings
reached us by way of tawâtur through an unbroken chain of
scholars throughout the centuries. (Tawâtur means the
transmission of a message from mouth to mouth. These tawâtur
teachings have spread throughout the world through books written
by Ahl as-sunna scholars.) If some heretics and atheists who claim
to be shaikhs of mystic orders say to uneducated Muslims, “I have
absolved you from performing salât. Don’t do that from now on,”
or “The salât commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ is not getting up and
down or reciting certain things. It means to repeat the Names of
Allâhu ta’âlâ and to think of His greatness,” this denial of theirs
may mislead Muslims. In this case, it will be a must to kill them by
the court’s verdict. Once under arrest, the tawba they make will
not be valid. A person who denies the salât, that is, who does not
believe that salât is a duty, is called a disbeliever. A person who
believes that salât is a duty but does not perform it because of
indolence is called a fâsiq (sinful) Muslim. That is, he will have
committed a grave sin. He will be kept in prison until he begins to
perform salât. It will be necessary for him to perform the salâts he
has omitted and also make tawba (repentance). Citation from the
book Dürr-i yektâ ends here.
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