Endless Bliss Fourth Fascicle

CONTENTS
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Preface....................................................................................................4
Islam........................................................................................................9
1– The five daily prayers (namâz) .........................................................17
2– The fards of namâz .............................................................................19
3– Masah (wiping) on mests (special socks
or shoes); having an excuse ...............................................................33
4– Ghusl (ritual washing) haid, nifâs, darûrat, haraj ..........................40
5– Tayammum..........................................................................................79
6– Tahârat from najâsat (Purification
from uncleanliness).............................................................................87
7– Water and its kinds...........................................................................102
8– Satr-i awrat and women’s covering themselves............................109
9– Qibla: its direction ............................................................................125
10– Prayer times.......................................................................................135
11– Azân (or adhân) (announcing and call to
prayers) and iqâmat..........................................................................197
12– First Volume, 303rd letter ...............................................................208
13– Importance of namâz (prayer)........................................................209
14– How do we perform namâz (prayer) .............................................217
15– Namâz during long-distance journeys............................................232
16– Wâjibs of namâz, Sajda-i sahw........................................................247
17– Things that nullify namâz ................................................................255
18– Mekrûhs of namâz ............................................................................266
19– The namâz of tarâwîh and reverence due
to mosques .........................................................................................281
20– Namâz in jamâ’at ..............................................................................291
21– Friday (Jum’a) prayer ......................................................................311
22– The namâz of ’Iyd.............................................................................329
23– The qadhâ namâzes [omitted prayers]...........................................333
24– Taghannî (singing) and music .........................................................369
25– Second Volume, forty-sixth letter ..................................................402
26– Second Volume, thirty-seventh letter ............................................412
27– Second Volume, thirty-ninth letter ................................................415
Appendix I – FINDING THE FIRST DAY OF AN
ARABIC MONTH..........................................................................418
Appendix II – ULU⁄ BEY’S TABLE FOR LUNAR
(QAMARÎ) MONTHS ...................................................................419
Appendix III – FINDING THE MÎLÂDÎ YEAR
COINCIDING WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE
HIJRÎ YEAR....................................................................................420
Appendix IV – TABLE EQUATION OF TIME and
DECLINATION OF THE SUN ...................................................421
Appendix V – TABLE of TAMKINS........................................................423
Appendix VI – SUN’S ALTITUDES at TIME of LATE
AFTERNOON PRAYER..............................................................424
GLOSSARY .....................................................................................425