5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

mountains posts, but it has not been customary to call them so.
If a person who has sworn that he will not demolish a house
spoils a spider’s web, his oath will not be broken. For, though a
spider’s web is called a house in the Qur’ân, it has been
customary to call it a web. If the sworn person says that when
he swore he thought of the word in its meaning as used in the
Qur’ân or as shown in dictionaries, his statement is to be
accepted. But if the word has been used figuratively, that is, not
with its own meaning, his saying that he meant its customary
figurative meaning is not accepted. If a person who has sworn
not to buy anything with fulûs buys something with gold his oath
will not be broken. For, fulûs is the name of the copper coin
which has been monetized. He cannot claim that he meant to
say, ‘I will not buy anything.’ Even if it is customary to say so,
the meaning of ‘fulûs’ is clear. Custom cannot change the
meaning. If a person swears that he will not go out through the
door and then goes out through the window or swears that he
will not beat with a whip and then beats with a stick, his oath will
not be broken. While explaining things that are harâm, Ibni
Âbidîn says that he who has sworn that he would not look at
someone’s face can look at his image in a mirror. For, the
image is not the person himself but his likeness. [Likewise, what
is heard through a loudspeaker or on the radio is not the human
voice, but its likeness].
He who has sworn to commit a harâm or not do an act of
worship breaks his oath and then pays the kaffârat.
For the kaffârat of an oath you manumit a slave. Or you give
a set of underwear, large enough to cover the entire body, to
each of ten poor men or women, or feed ten poor people twice
one day. It is also acceptable to feed one poor person twice a
day for ten days. It is not permissible to feed other ten people
the same day for the second time. Therefore, if he feeds twenty
poor people in the morning, he is obliged to feed ten of them in
the evening or to give them the equivalent property of sadaqa-i
fitr. It is not necessary to feed all the poor people on the same
day. He can feed some other ones or former ones the next day.
Also, it is permissible to give a poor person a set of underwear
every day for ten days or to feed him twice a day for ten days or
once a day for twenty days. Also, it is acceptable to give half a
sâ’ of wheat or flour or bread to each of the ten poor people
once for one day or to one poor person once a day for ten days.
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