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OUR ÎMÂN and NAMÂZ (FAITH and PRAYER)

For all, Îmân is foremost
Allahu ta’âlâ wants people to live in comfort and peace in the world and to attain endless happiness in the Hereafter. It is for this reason that He has commanded useful things that cause happiness and forbidden harmful things which cause calamity. The first commandment of Allahu ta’âlâ is to have îmân (faith). Having îmân is a must for all people. It is obligatory for everyone.
Literally îmân means to know a person to be perfect and
truthful and to have faith in him. In Islam, îmân means to believe the fact that Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam) is Allahu ta’âlâ’s Prophet; that he is (Nabî), the Messenger chosen by Him, and to say this with the heart; and to believe in brief what he transmitted briefly and to believe in detail what he transmitted in detail from Allahu ta’âlâ; and to say (the Kalimat ash-shahâda)
whenever possible. Strong îmân is such that, as we know for certain that fire burns, serpents kill by poisoning and we avoid them, we should deem Allahu ta’âlâ and His attributes great, be fully certain of this by heart, strive for his consent (ridâ’) and run to His beauty (jamâl), and beware of His wrath (ghadab) and torture (jalâl). We should firmly inscribe this îmân on the heart
like an inscription on marble.
Îmân means to love everything which Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm said and to approve, that is to believe, them by heart. Those people who believe in this manner are called Mu’min or Muslim.
Each and every Muslim must follow Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm.
They must walk in the path he guided. His path is the path shown by the Qur’ân al-karîm. This path is called Islam. To follow him, firstly, it is necessary to have îmân, then, to learn the rules of Islam, then, to perform the fards (commandments) and to abstain from harâms (forbidden things or acts), then to do sunnats and to
abstain from makrûhs. After all these, we should try to adapt ourselves to him in mubâhs also.
The basis of our religion is îmân. Allahu ta’âlâ neither loves nor accepts any worship or any good deeds of those who do not have îmân. Any person who wants to be a Muslim must have îmân first.
Then, he must learn ghusl, ablution, namâz and other fards and harâms whenever it is necessary.

Faith Must Be Correct

The information grasped by sense organs and mind are helpful to attain îmân. Scientific knowledge helps one understand and know that the orderliness, the regularity of the universe is not accidental and there is one creator. Thus it helps one attain îmân.
Îmân means to learn the knowledge brought by the last prophet Hadrat Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm from Allahu ta’âlâ and to believe them. It is to disbelieve in the Prophets if one says, “I will believe them on the condition that they are in accordance with the mind.” The religious knowledge are not the findings of the possessors of reason. What our Prophet Hadrat Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm communicated must be learned from the books of the Ahl as- Sunnat scholars and they must be believed accordingly.
To have a correct and acceptable belief, it is necessary to abide by the below mentioned conditions as well:

1- Îmân must be continuous and steadfast. We must not intend to abandon it even for a moment. Anyone who desires to become a disbeliever three years later becomes a disbeliever as soon as one wishes that.

2- The faith of the believer must be between hawf (fear) and rajâ (hope). We must fear the torment of Allahu ta’âlâ, however, we must not give up hope of His rahmat (Allah’s Mercy). We must beware of each and every sin; we must fear that we might lose our îmân due to our sins. Even if one has committed every sinful deed, one must not be destitute of hope of being forgiven by Allahu ta’âlâ. We must repent of our sins. For, those who repent of sins are like as if they never committed them.

3- One must have faith before his soul reaches the throat
(during his death). When the soul reaches the throat, one is shown all the events of the Hereafter. At that time, every disbeliever wants to have the faith. However, îmân must be in the unseen. It is necessary to believe before seeing it. After you have seen it, it is not îmân any more. However, the repentance of the believers is acceptable at that moment.

4- One must have îmân before the sun rises in the west. One of the major symptoms of Doomsday is that the sun rises in the west.
All people who see this will believe. However, their îmân will not be accepted. The gate of repentance will have been closed then.

5- One must believe that no one except Allahu ta’âlâ knows the ghayb, the hidden things. That is, only Allahu ta’âlâ knows the ghayb. Those who are informed by Him of the hidden things know them as well. Angels, genies, devils, even Prophets cannot know the ghayb. However, if Allah informs His prophets or His dear slaves, then they also know it.

6- One must not deny, without having been forced or doing so deliberately, any rule of the religion pertaining to the belief or the worships. It is disbelief to slight the Ahkâm-i islâmiyya, that is, one of the commands or the prohibitions of Islam, to make mockery of the Qur’ân al-karîm, angels or one of the Prophets, or to deny -
without having been forced - anything communicated by them. He who verbally denies the existence of Allahu ta’âlâ, angels, the fard, quality of ghusl or namâz, due to a strong necessity such as being threatened with murder, does not become a disbeliever.

7- One must not doubt or hesitate about the indispensable knowledge openly communicated by the Islamic religion. It causes disbelief if one doubts whether namâz is fard, or whether drinking wine and other alcoholic beverages, gambling, interest (ribâ’),
bribery are harâm (forbidden). To say harâm about a well known halâl or to say halâl about a well known harâm causes disbelief.

8- Îmân must be in accordance with what Islam communicated (The faith must be based on Islam). To believe in the things understood by mind, or to believe the religion according to statements of philosophers or false scientists is not îmân. One must believe in the manner communicated by Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm.

9- Those who have faith must love only for the sake of Allahu ta’âlâ and they must feel enmity only for the sake of Allahu ta’âlâ. It is necessary to love Muslims who are loved by Allahu ta’âlâ and to dislike people who commit animosities toward Islam by hand or by pen. This enmity must take place in the heart.
[We must treat non-Muslim citizens or foreigners with a
smiling face and gentle words. With our beautiful ethics, we must make them love our religion.]

10- It is necessary to believe in the manner which true Muslims who do not leave the right path shown by our Prophet ’alaihis-salâm and his Companions. To have a correct belief, one must believe according to the tenets of the creed of Ahl as-Sunnat wal-jamâ’at. [A person who adheres to the true religious books written by the scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat will attain thawâb (blessings,
rewards in the Hereafter) equal to the total sum of the thawâb that will be given to a hundred people who have attained martyrdom.
The scholars affiliated in any one of the four Madhhabs of Muslims are (scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat). Imâm a’zam Abû Hanîfa is the leader of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat. Rasûlullah ’alaihis-salâm stated to his Sahâba the facts which Allahu ta’âlâ dictated to him. And the Sahâba, in their turn, conveyed those facts to their disciples (the scholars of Ahl as-Sunnat), who in their turn wrote them in their books.]

May Allah strengthen our Iman.

SOURCE: Kitâb’us-salât

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