VIRTUE of NAMÂZ in JAMÂ’AT (II)

A hadîth-i-sherîf reads: “O my Ummat and my Sahâba! I have put forth two paths for you: One of them is the Qur’ân al-’adhîm ush-shân, and the other one is my Sunnat. A person who follows a path other than these two is not my Ummat!” [’Abd-ul-Ghânî Nablusî ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’ (1050 [1640 A.D.], Damascus – 1143 [1731]) states as follows in the ninety-ninth page of his book entitled Hadîqa (and which is a commentary to the book entitled Tarîqat-i-Muhammadiyya and written by Imâm Birgivî): While Allâhu ta’âlâ announced a part of Islam by way of the Qur’ân al-kerîm, He announced its other part throught the Sunnat of His blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. The Sunnat of Rasûlullah consists of his beliefs, utterances, practices, moral behaviour, and his tacit admission of someone’s act or statement, [which was construed as his accepting (what had been done or said).]” This hadîth-i-sherîf indicates the second one of the (four Islamic sources called) Edilla-i-shar’iyya.]