Advice of Scholars - TUMÂNÎNAT AND TA’DÎL-I ARKÂN

Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî says in the 69th letter of the second volume of his Maktûbât:

Recently, most people have been slack in performing namâz. They have been slighting the tumânînat and the ta’dîl-i arkân. For this reason, I have to warn you, my beloved ones, about this matter. Listen well! Our Prophet ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’ declared: “The worst thief is the person who steals from his own namâz. ” When he was asked, “O Rasûlallah! How can a person steal from his own namâz?” he said, “By not doing the rukû and sajda of the namâz properly. ” At some other time he declared: “Allâhu ta’âlâ does not accept the namâz of a person who does not bring his waist into its proper position and remain so for a while in rukû and sajda. ” Once, upon seeing a person not doing the rukû and the sajda properly while performing namâz, our Prophet ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’ said, “Aren’t you afraid you may die in some other religion than Hadrat Muhammad’s ‘alaihissalâtu wassalâm’ dîn because you perform your prayers of namâz in this manner?” Once again, he said, “When performing namâz, if you do not straighten up your body completely after the rukû’, if your each limb does not rest at its position for a while when you are standing, your namâz will not be complete. ” Once again, he said, “Unless you sit upright between the two sajdas your namâz will remain incomplete. ” One day, upon seeing someone not observing the rules and rukns of salât, not standing upright after the rukû’ and not sitting between the sajdas, our Prophet ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’ said, “If you go on performing your prayers of namâz in this manner, on the Day of Resurrection you will not be said to be of my Ummat. ” At some other time he said, “If you go on in this manner and die, you shall not have died in the religion of Muhammad (alaihissalâm). ”

Ibni Abidîn says at the end of the section on the makrûh actions in namâz, “If a person has his child do the things that are harâm for himself to do, he has committed a harâm. A person who has his son wear silk clothes or ornaments him with gold or who has his children drink alcohol or lets them urinate in the direction of qibla, or causes them to stretch their legs in the direction of qibla will be sinful.”