USING A MISWÂK
There are fifteen benefits in using a miswâk. These benefits, borrowed from the book entitled Sirâj-ul-wahhâj (a three–volumed commentary rendered by Abû Bakr bin ’Alî Haddâd Yemenî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, d. 800 [1397 A.D.], to the book entitled Mukhasar-i-Qudûrî, which in turn had been written by Abul Hueyn Ahmad bin Muhammad Baghdâdî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, 362 [973 A.D.] – 428 [1037], Baghdâd), are as follows:
1– It causes you to say the Kalima-i-shehâdat when dying.
2– It hardens the gums.
3– It helps to loosen the phlegm in your chest. (It is a perfect expectorant.)
4– It stops an excessive secretion of bile.
5– It diminishes oral aches.
6– It eliminates bad breath.
7– Allâhu ta’âlâ is pleased with a person who uses a miswâk.
8– It strengthes the cranial veins.
9– The devil becomes sad (when you use a miswâk).
10– Your eyes become bright with nûr (when you use a miswâk).
11– There is an icrease in your pious deeds (khayr and hasanât).
12– You have practised an act of sunnat (by using a miswâk).
13– Your mouth becomes cleans.
14– Your speech becomes eloquent.
15– Two rak’ats of namâz performed with (an ablution made after using) a miswâk yield more thawâb than seventy rak’ats of namâz without (having used) a miswâk.