Introduction of the book, ‘Salah for Islamic sisters’

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, the founder of Dawat-e-Islami, ‘Allamah Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qaadiri Razavi Ziyaee دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه out of his enthusiasm for serving Islamic sisters, has compiled an extremely easy book namely, ‘Salah For Islamic sisters’, which contains rulings regarding Salah. This book consists of necessary rulings relating to Islamic sisters. Therefore, every Islamic sister should buy and study this important book and also give this book as gift to other Islamic sisters. اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ you will attain abundance blessings.

Dear Islamic sisters, alas! At present, many efforts are made to gain knowledge of worldly arts and sciences and for this purpose great sacrifice of wealth and time is made. On the other hand, no one makes any effort to learn the rulings on Salah which is a pillar of Deen [Islam]. It is quite possible that our Salahs may become invalid due to a lack of Islamic knowledge and haste and we are unaware of it. Our pious predecessors and saints of Islam رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی had a deep attachment to Salah. Taking care of all the manners of Salah these personalities not only would offer all obligatory Salahs, but they would also offer Nafl Salah with extreme calmness. Let’s listen to three parables of pious saints of Islam about it for persuasion.

Salah of A’la Hadrat

Maulana Muhammad Husayn Chishti Nizami Fakhri رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه, who wrote Fatawa for A’la Hadrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه for few years, has said:  A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه certainly offered Salah throughout his life with Jama’at; no matter how hot [temperature] it was he would always offer Salah wearing ‘Imamah and Angharkhay [a garment that is worn over Kurta] (i.e. he would make special arrangement even in clothing for Salah]. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه never offered especially obligatory Salah wearing only Topi and a normal Kurta. Maulana Muhammad Husayn Chishti Nizami Fakhri رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه further stated: The amount of care A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would take while offering Salah is not seen these days. I always offer two Rak’at in the amount of time in which A’la Hadrat would offer one Rak’at. Other people would offer at