[97] Mustahab means behaviour, an act, an utterance, an intention, or a thought, for which Allâhu ta’âlâ will give blessings in the Hereafter. Blessings deserved for pious acts are called thawâb in Islamic literature.
[98] A hadîth-i-qudsî is a Word of Allah which He inspired into His blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’.
[99] To say the Basmala means to say the word ‘Bism-Illâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm’, which means, “In the name of Allah, who is Merciful and Compassionate.”
[100] An act, behaviour, a word that the Messenger of Allah avoided although it was not prohibited directly in the Qur’ân al-kerîm is called makrûh. The Messenger not only avoided such behaviour, but also recommended that Muslims should avoid it.
[101] A short stick (about 20 centimetres long and no more than one centimetre thick) cut from a certain shrub called Erâk (salvadora persica) growing in Arabia. One end of the miswâk is pounded into fibres and used as a toothbrush.
[102] The communistic regime has been overthrown now.
[103] Confessions of A British Spy, 1991, Hakîkat Kitabevi, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey.
[104] A nickname for Imâm-i-Rabbânî Mujaddid-i-elf-i-thânî ‘quddisa sirruh’ [d. 1034 (1624 C.E.), Serhend, India]. Please see The Proof of Prophethood, the English version of his book Ithbât-un-Nubuwwa. Letters from his valuable work Maktûbât occupy a major part of our book Endless Bliss. ‘Sila’ means ‘combiner’. He was called so because he combined two extensive branches of Islamic knowledge, i.e. the Sharî’at, which contains all the Islamic canonical principles, laws, commandments, prohibitions, etc, and the Tarîqa, which is the collection of all spiritual paths and orders in Islam. These two branches had been considered apart from each other until his time.
[105] Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the last Prophet. No prophet shall come after him. Islamic scholars will teach Islam to people till the end of the world. The greatest ones of these scholars are called ‘mujaddid’. Every thousand years after Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’,Allâhu ta’âlâ will restore the Islamic religion and protect Muslims from degeneration through a very profound Islamic scholar called ‘mujaddid’. Imâm-i Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruh’ is the first of such mujaddids. ‘Mujaddid-i-elf-i-thânî’ means ‘the restorer of the second millennium’.