Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

much thawâb there should be in resuscitating a fard or wâjib.
Therefore, one should be careful about the ta’dîl-i-arkân when
performing namâz. In other words, at the rukû, at the sajda, at the
qawma and at the jalsa, each limb should become motionless and
remain so for a while; most of the savants of the Hanafî Madhhab
said that this was wâjib. Imâm-i Abû Yûsuf and Imâm-i Shâfi’î said
that it is fard. Most Muslims have been neglecting this. A person
who reveals this one deed will be given much more thawâb than
that which is given to a hundred martyrs who have fought and
given their lives in the way of Allah. This same rule applies to all
the rules of the Ahkâm-i-islâmiyya. That is, a person who teaches
one of the halâls, harâms, makrûhs, fards, wâjibs and sunnats and
sees to it that it be observed will attain the same amount of thawâb.
Returning one cent to its owner which has been extorted
unjustly, by violence and without any reason from the owner,
generates far more thawâb than dispensing hundreds of dollars as
alms. It has been reported that if a person performs the acts of
worship performed by Prophets and yet if he unjustly retains one
cent that belongs to someone else, he will not enter Paradise unless
he returns this one cent. It is also a human right for a man to pay
the mahr to the woman whom he has divorced. [Ibni ’Âbidîn
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ [1] states as follows in the two hundred
and seventy-sixth page of the fifth volume: “It is not permissible to
beat somebody else’s child even if the child’s father commands
you to do so. The khodja (teacher) may beat his pupil three times
with his hand in order to make him study. He is not permitted to
beat it with a stick.”]
In short, our outer body and all our limbs should be enriched
with practising the rules of the Ahkâm-i-islâmiyya. Then we
should take care of our heart so that the deed should not be
overcast with the slumber of oblivion! Without the heart’s aid it
will be difficult for the limbs to cling to the Ahkâm-i-islâmiyya.
The savants give the fatwâ and say that something should be so or
should not be so. But it devolves on men of Allah to place these
into the heart. To strive to purify and enlighten the heart causes all
the limbs to hold fast to the Ahkâm-i-islâmiyya. He who busies
with the heart only and does not cling to the Ahkâm-i-islâmiyya is
a mulhid. He has deviated from the right way. If some
[1] Sayyid Muhammad Amîn bin ’Umar bin ’Abd-ul-’Azîz ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’alaih’ (1198 [1784 A.D.], Damascus – 1252 [1836], the same
place).
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