5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

supererogatory hajj even when he has no ’udhr.
A person can give as a gift the thawâb of his worships to a
dead or alive person, such as salât, fasting, sadaqa, Qur’ân alkerîm,
dhiqr, tawâf, hajj, umra, visiting the graves of Awliyâ and
giving a shroud for a dead person, even if they are fard or
supererogatory for him, after having done or while doing any of
them. But in the Madhhabs of Shâfi’î and Mâlikî the thawâb of
worships that are done only physically cannot be given to
someone else as a present. Imâm-i Subkî and the later Shâfi’î
savants (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în) said that these also
could be given as gifts. It is useless to have your worships done
by payment or to sell the thawâb of your worships to someone.
It is a payment if you bargain before the worship is done. And it
is to sell the worship if you bargain after doing the worship.
When putting on the ihrâm, the deputy has to intend with his
heart for the person who has appointed him. A person who has
the debt of hajj must command his trustee by giving him the
name of the deputy who will perform the hajj on his behalf after
his death. The dying person or his appointed non-inheriting
trustee cannot make one of the inheritors his deputy unless the
other inheritors approve of it. Unless a person countenances it,
it is not permissible to send someone else for hajj on his behalf.
But if the dead person has not made a will in this respect, that
is, if he has not reserved money for hajj, his heir can go on hajj
on his behalf or send someone else with the money from his
share of the inheritance. Thus he will have saved his father or
mother from the debt of hajj. If the hajj has become fard for
himself, too, he has to go for himself in addition. But saving his
parents from the debt of hajj will make him attain the thawâb for
ten acts of hajj. According to the Madhhabs of Hanafî and
Hanbalî, the (trip for) hajj must be started from the city they
used to live in. For example, if a person living in Istanbul loses
his father stationed in Erzurum, and if he wants to send
someone as his father’s deputy on hajj though his father did not
request it in his will, it is fard for him to send the deputy from
Erzurum. It is not permissible to send the deputy from some
other place in the Madhhab of Hanafî. But in Shafi’î Madhhab it
is permissible to send the deputy from any place except
Mîqât [1] . In fact, it is permissible in Shâfi’î Madhhab to give
[1] Place where the hadjis assume the garb that is called ihrâm and worn
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