IMAM AL-SHA'RANI'S LAWAQIH AL-ANWAR AL-QUDSIYYAH FI
BAYAN AL-'UHUD AL-MUHAMMADIYYAH
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COMMANDMENT NO. 10
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MUHAMMADAN
COVENANT
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pp.
32-33
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HONORING MASJID BY NOT RELIEVING ONESELF NEAR IT
A general oath of allegiance was taken from us by the
Messenger of Allah (ص) that we shall honor the masjid and we will not relieve
ourselves near its doors other than the in places specifically allotted for
that, as a mark of respect and honor for Allah (ت). This covenant has been
ignored by many people whose dwellings are near to the doors of the masjid,
thus inconveniencing the entrance to the masjid, if the entrance to his place
of cleansing is adjacent to it, due to taking the off the shoes when they
entered the masjid or it being routine for them. This action is the worst of
what can be. Let any one of them ponder if he wants to enter the palace of the
king, he will never be able to urinate on the door of the palace as a mark of
[preserving the] prestige of the king and fearing from his servants. But Allah
(ت) is more deserving than that.
More on this will be discussed in the 13th
covenant after this, therefore refer to it.
My master ‘Ali al-Khawwas (رح) if he intends to enter the
masjid he would purify himself outside it or in his house, and he will never
enter in a state of impurity to perform ablution in the water tank inside the
masjid fearing that he would enter in a state of impurity. And when he entered
the masjid he begins to shudder out of reverence until he completes the salat
then quickly exit by saying: الحمد لله الذى أطلعنا من المسجد على سلامة [praise
be to Allah who informed us leave the masjid safely].
Then I said to him: “you are by the grace of Allah in the
state of (ever) presence with Allah (both) inside the masjid and outside it”.
Then he replied: “O, my son, the Truth (ت) has indeed sought from us to
(observe) mannerism in the masjid which he did not seek from us outside it and
look at his (ص) prohibition of sitting inside the masjid by interlocking the
fingers (تشبيك الأصابع) and/or from (playing) with stones (تقليب
الحصى), and their likes than
you will understand what we have mentioned. For the shari‘ (ص) did not prohibit
us from that in places other than the masjid.
He (رض) once saw a person among the fuqara’ (الفقراء) walking with
a clean slipper (تاسومة)[1] in
the centre of the masjid then he shouted at him and forbade him from doing it
by saying “being scrupulous in respect of a morsel (of food) is more prudent
for you”.
Once a man stood up for him in the masjid, but he scolded
him severely by saying: “certainly the servant if he is ennobled in the presence
of Allah (ت) he will melt just like the dissolving of lead out of shyness from
Allah (ت) that he associates partners to him in the form of veneration and pride.
He, if he came to the masjid, did not dare to enter alone, but he will wait
patiently at the door till someone comes, then he enters behind him following
him by saying: “the masjid is the precinct of Allah (ت) and do not start sitting
before the Allah before others except those who are proximate [to Him] (المقربون)
who has no mistake on them, nor their limbs were ever polluted with sin, nor
did they fall into it nor did they repent from it with sincere repentance, like
the awliya’ for whom the divine care (العناية الربانية) was granted earlier through the greatest spiritual
power (الولاية الكبرى) in ab nihilio and they knew through sound Divine unveiling
that Allah (ت) accepted their repentance and replaced their bad deeds with good
deeds such that there remained with them any bad deed with which they seek His
precinct. And when they seek to bring them before His precinct they will know
that their repentance is unsound because they (the bad deeds) did not replace
their bad deeds with good ones, for if that has been replaced then there would
remain no form in the existence nor in their mind nor outside”. He said: “ I do
not have anyone of these two legs, so what is there for me to enter before
others”.
And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful [9(al-Tawbah):91]
Abu Dawud narrated from Makhul through a Mursal hadith, as
saying:
نهى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن
يبال بأبواب المسجد
[The Messenger of Allah (ت) prohibited (us) to urinate at the
door of the masjid]
Allah
knows best!
[1] A kind of slipper or shoe used in Makkah (in
Hijazi dialect) that resembles that of the Moroccan Bulghah. For instance it is
used as أي يافلان اصمت والا ضربتك
بالحذاء
اسكت والا اعطيك
بالتاسومة [keep
quiet if not I will give you a slipper].
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