Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

quit their jobs, but they should make jem’ of the late afternoon
prayer with the early afternoon prayer, and the evening prayer
with the night prayer by imitating the Hanbalî Madhhab.
Resigning from your position would mean to abet the persecutions
and infidelities that might be perpetrated by the person who would
take your place. The fards for an ablution in the Hanbalî Madhhab
are six: washing the face together with the interior of the mouth
and the interior of the nose, intention, washing the arms, rubbing
the whole head, rubbing the ears including the skin on the outer
parts of the ears. (The hair hanging down is not rubbed. In the
Mâlikî Madhhab, the hair hanging down is to be rubbed, either.)
Washing the feet including the bones on the sides, washing the
limbs in prescribed sequence (tartîb), washing them in haste are all
fards. Touching a woman lustfully or touching one’s own penis
breaks one’s ablution. If a woman touches a man, the man’s
ablution will not be broken even if he feels lust. Anything exuding
from the skin, if it is in a considerable amount, breaks the ablution.
Eating camel meat breaks an ablution. Reasons for excuse (’udhr)
are the same as those in the Hanafî Madhhab. In a ghusl, it is fard
to wash inside the mouth, inside the nose, the hair, and for men to
undo their tressed hair. As for women, it is sunnat to undo their
plaited hair for a ghusl [1] which is made for purification from junub,
and it is fard if the ghusl is made for purification when the
menstruation is over. Two other practices that are fard are to sit as
long as the time of tashahhud in namâz (during the sitting posture)
and to make salâm to both sides (when the final sitting posture in
namâz is over).”
14 — SECOND VOLUME, 20th LETTER
This letter, written to Tâhir Badahshî, states the virtues in
namâz, its arkân (precepts) and conditions, sunnats, adabs and the
ta’dîl-i arkân:
May hamd-u-thanâ be to Allâhu ta’âlâ! Salâmat be to the
good people whom He loves! The letter which you sent from
Junpur has arrived here. We are sorry to know that you have
been ill. We are awaiting the news informing of your recovery.
Send us the letter informing of your recovery through people
[1] Please see the fourth chapter of the fourth chapter of Endless Bliss
for details on ghusl.
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