Man’s honour is in his îmân and ma’rifat, not in his
property or rank position. Endeavour for the solidification of îmân! Redouble
your efforts for the attainment of grades of ma’rifat! It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, “If a person works for the Hereafter, Allâhu
ta’âlâ will make him attain all his wishes. If a person runs after
worldly affairs only, He will destroyhim.” If a person has to struggle for a living, it is permissible for
him to get a job and work. It will be good for him if he earns well. If he
cannot earn well he should not insist. His efforts will be in vain. In
addition, he will suffer harm.
If a person misses his daily prayers of namâz because
of illness and does not know the number of prayers he has missed, he makes qadâ
of the prayers he has missed in lieu of the supererogatory prayers of namâz
such as (those prayers of namâz termed) Tahajjud and Ishrâq as well as the
sunnats of the five daily prayers of namâz; the prayers of namâz he performs
with the intention of qadâ though he has finished his debts of namâz will become
supererogatory. He will be given the thawâb (blessings promised) for
supererogatory worships. For it is not necessary to make a certain niyyat for
supererogatory prayers of namâz performed at certain times. Prayers of namâz
made qadâ at certain times become supererogatory prayers belonging to those
times.
[It is a grave sin to omit the five daily prayers of namâz, that
is, not to perform them (within the times allotted to them) without any ’udhr
(a good excuse for doing or not doing something). Fawt [missing or omitting
them] because of illness or another ’udhr is not sinful. For this, it is
necessary to make qadâ of them, (that is, to pay one’s debts pertaining to
namâz), instead of the sunnats of the five daily prayers of namâz except the
sunnat of morning namâz. That these sunnats are supererogatory prayers is
explained in the books Jawhara and Futûh-ul-ghayb
as well as in Newâdir-i-fiqhiyya,
by Muhammad Sâdiq Efendi, the Qâdi of
Jerusalem, and in Eshbâh and in Se’âdet-i
Ebediyye (Endless Bliss)].