The Pearl of Wisdom - Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10

Etiquette of Prayer

Guru: My brothers and sisters, make it your habit each day, to brush your teeth and cleanse your tongue. Twenty-four blessings will be showered on you.

Children, each one of you should rise from bed at half-past four in the morning. You must wash and bathe yourself (perform ablutions) and worship the Lord and while on the same spot you must perform the Dhikr (meditation of the breath of the right and the left nostrils) till the rise of the sun.

Allah will protect you from hell and admit you into heaven.

My brother, every Friday, if you bathe yourself for the purpose of prayer and in a state of purity (kusul), you participate in the Friday congregational prayer (jumma), the sins committed by you from that jumma to the next jumma prayer will be forgiven. On the day of the Kiyama (Mid-judgement Day) your body will glitter with a bright sheen.