5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

and possessions it is not fard to go on hajj. But the murder of a
few hadjis is not an excuse (for not going on hajj). On hajj, it is
permissible to pay the tax or bribes charged for entering the
country. Bribery is always permissible when it is for saving
one’s life or property. But it is sinful to ask for bribe.
3 - To go on hajj, a woman who lives in a place three-daysplus-three-nights’
way (by walking) to Mekka has to be
accompanied by her husband or by an eternally mahram
relative whom she can never marry and who is not on record
sinning. Also, the woman must be rich enough to meet his
expenses too. A hadîth, which is quoted by Bezzâr in Kunûz
ud-deqâiq, declares, “A woman cannot go on hajj without
her mahram accompanying her.” Because we live in an age
when mischief and wrongdoing are on the increase, one should
not travel with a person who is one’s relative through marriage
or ridâ [1] . The husband cannot prevent his rich wife from going
on hajj with a mahram relative of hers once. For a husband
does not have the right to prohibit his wife wrom doing the
farâid. [Hadîqa, p. 591]. Again, it is written at the end of the
chapter about the afflictions incurred through speech, “The
husband can prohibit his wife from going on nâfila
(supererogatory) hajj with her mahram relative. If she goes with
his permission, her livelihood will be provided by her husband
throughout the course of her going and coming back, but not if
she goes without his permission.” Please see the section
dealing with a marriage contract with stipulated conditions in the
twelfth chapter. According to Shâfi’î Madhhab, a woman without
a mahram relative accompanying her can go on a hajj which is
fard for her by joining two other women. It will be an excuse for
a woman whose mahram dies on the way of hajj to imitate the
Shafi’î Madhhab.
4 - For a woman not to be in the state of iddat, that is, not to
be newly divorced.
By the year a person has the conditions for performance as
well as the conditions for incumbency the hajj becomes fard for
him. If he dies on his way to hajj in the same year, he becomes
[1] A sucking from the same breasts with another. Becoming another
person’s foster brother or sister on this wise.There is detailed
information about ridâ’ in the Turkish original version of Seâdet-i
ebediyye, Part 2, Chapter 37
- 107 -