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TO PERFORM NAMÂZ

It is written as follows in Ni’met-i-islâm: It is farz for every discreet and pubescent Muslim to perform namâz five times daily. Nobody can perform namâz on behalf of any other person. A person may gift the thawâb for a namâz or any other act of worship that they performed to another person [alive or dead alike. Each and every one of them, (i.e. people to whom the thawâb of the worship performed has been donated,) shall be given the same amount of thawâb as that which has been earned by the donator; and no amount of thawâb shall be deducted from the donator.] It is not permissible to perform namâz and donate the thawâb thereby earned to your adversary or creditor so that they will waive their rights violated. A person who believes that (the daily five prayers of) namâz is farz and yet does not perform it without any ’udhr, will not become a disbeliever. They will become (a) fâsiq (Muslim). [It is stated (in authentic Islamic sources) that punishment for a single omitted namâz is Hell fire for seventy thousand years.] (A person who ceases from performing his daily namâzes) will be sent to prison and will be kept there until he begins to perform his namâzes again. When a child is seven years old, it will be commanded (by its parents) to perform namâz. If it still does not perform namâz at the age of ten, it will be beaten with hand. It should not be patted more than three times. It should not be thwacked with a cane [It is not permissible to hit any living being on the head or in the face or on the chest or front or abdomen.] It is farz also for an invalid to perform namâz to the best of their ability and energy.