5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Material or other property [such as a cloth, a towel, a
handkerchief, socks, meat, rice, underwear, slippers, medicine
or religious, scientific or moral books] or gold or silver money of
the same value can be given, instead. If you give ten days’
amount to one poor person in one day, all of it will be for one
day. If you give hundreds of sâ’ to each of ten poor individuals
in one day, it will still be the kaffârat for one oath. The same is
done for the kaffârat of an oath paid on behalf of a dead person.
It is permissible to make someone your deputy to feed the poor
or to give the money and to pay him the money later. He who
cannot do any of these fasts for three successive days. For
each of these fasts he must intend during the previous night. If
a woman begins menstruating before completing the three days
of fast, she does not continue fasting. She fasts for three more
days after the menstruation is over. Kaffârat for Ramadân’s fast
is different. It is not correct to give the kaffârat before the Hins,
that is, before breaking the oath. It is sinful to delay the kaffârat
of an oath. It is written in Dâmâd: A separate kaffârat is made
for each (broken) oath. If a person says, “Vallahi verrahmâni
verrahîmi, I will not do such and such a thing,” he will have
made three oaths. If he does that thing three kaffârats will be
necessary. It is written in Bedâyi’ and Hindiyya that fulûs
[paper money] can be given in lieu of feeding. It is necessary to
intend while giving the kaffârat.
Rasûlullah ’sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stated, “Most
tradesmen and market-dealers are fâjir (dissolute, sinful)!”
When he was asked the reason he said, “Their buying and
selling is not halâl. For they sin by swearing and lying very
often.” In another hadîth he states, “A person who cheats
someone out of his property by perjury will find Allâhu
ta’âlâ wrathful on the Resurrection Day.” Please see the
second page of the fifteenth chapter of the third part of the
Turkish version. In another hadîth, “A person with îmân may
commit any fault. But he cannot betray or lie.” In another
hadîth, “Lying is permissible in three places: In war [and
also when it is necessary to protect oneself and other Muslims
against the harm of enemies of religion], in passing one
Muslim’s words on to another in order to reconcile them,
and in handling one’s wives.” It is permissible to conceal a
Muslim’s sins, or his hiding place or property from a cruel
person. Lying is permissible (when it is done) in order to prevent
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