5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

a quarrel between two Muslims or between a wife and a
husband, to protect one’s property, to prevent a Muslim’s secret
or fault from being revealed, or to prevent other things like these
that are harâm. It is like eating meat canonically unclean lest
one should die.
It is written in Tarîqat-i-Muhammadiyya: “Our Prophet ’sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ declared, ‘Perjury is a grave sin.’ He
declared in another hadîth, ‘Hell is the destination of person
who cheats a Muslim out of his rights by perjury.’ Uttering
an oath very often, even if you tell the truth, means to slight the
name of Allâhu ta’âlâ and yemîn. It is utterly loathsome to swear
flippantly with such names. So is the case with swearing in
songs, plays, and parties.
If you break several oaths you have to make a kaffârat for
each one. Kaffârat, like zakât, is worship through property. It is
permissible to give your property through a deputy to the poor.
But you have to make a niyya (intention) when preparing the
property or at least before it is given to the poor.”
It is written on the four hundred and seventh page of the
book Ibdâ, “A hadîth declares, ‘Do not swear an oath by
saying, “Upon my father.” An oath can be sworn only with
Allah’s name.’ Another hadîth, which exists in Abû Dâwûd,
declares, ‘He who swears by his honour and chastity, which
has been entrusted to him (by Allah) is not in our
community.’ A hadîth, communicated by Tirmuzî ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’aleyh’, declares, ‘He who swears with any name other
than that of Allah, becomes a disbeliever.’ Oaths sworn by
using such expressions as ‘by your father,’ ‘by your life,’ ‘by
your head,’ ‘by Kâ’ba,’ ‘by your (my) honour,’ and ‘by the soil
(on the grave) of such and such a Walî’ have become so
widespread.”
It is written in Uyûn-ul-basâir, “It is not sahîh (valid) for a
disbeliever to take an oath or to pay kaffârat.” Hence, it is
understood that adjurations made by disbelievers or renegades
are not sahîh. So it is not necessary to do what they ask you to
do by adjuration.
Hadîqa states in its discourse on the afflictions incurred
through speech, “It is not permissible to ask someone for
something mundane by saying, ‘For Allah’s sake.’ It is
declared in a hadîth that such people are accursed.” As written
in Durer wa Ghurer, in the fifth volume of Ibni Âbidîn, and in
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