5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

their nikâh becomes void. For disbelievers in the Dâr-ul-harb
are theoretically dead people. There cannot be a nikâh between
a person who is dead and one who is alive. If both of them
move to the Dâr-ul-islâm as Muslims or zimmîs, or if they are
captivated, their nikâh will not become void.
If one of a married couple of Muslims becomes a renegade,
that is, if he or she abandons Islam, their nikâh becomes void. If
the husband becomes a renegade and then renews his îmân
and nikâh, it will be jâ’iz (permissible). Since divorce has not
taken place, it will be jâ’iz even if takes place more than three
times and without waiting till the end of the period of iddat, and
it will be unnecessary to go to the court of justice. If the
husband becomes a renegade, he will have to provide the
woman’s sustenance as long as the period of iddat. If the wife
becomes a renegade, the husband will not have to support her
as long as the iddat. If the wife becomes a renegade, she will
be imprisoned until she becomes a Muslim or has her nikâh
renewed by the judge. A woman imprisoned (for this reason) is
like a woman who leaves home without (her husband’s)
permission; her husband does not (have to) meet her expenses
such as sustenance and rentals. If a husband who has turned a
renegade dies within the period of iddat, his wife becomes his
inheritor. The scholars of (the city of) Belh, when they observed
an increase in the number of women who became renegades in
order to get divorced from their husbands, said that the wife’s
turning a renegade would not annul the nikâh. [Please see the
fifteenth chapter in the second part of the Turkish original!]
According to those kinds of reports called Zâhir, a woman
who becomes a renegade cannot be used as a jâriya as long as
she stays in the Dâr-ul-islâm. If she flees to the Dâr-ul-harb, [i.e.
to a country of disbelievers such as France and Britain], and
then is caught and brought back to the Dâr-ul-islâm, she
becomes a jâriya if she becomes a Believer again. On the other
hand, according to some reports called Nawâdir, she can be
made a jariya (even if she stays) in the Dâr-ul-islâm. According
to a report called Nawâdir, a woman who becomes a renegade
becomes a fey for Muslims. Property captured from disbelievers
in a war is called Ghânîmat. One-fifth of the ghanîmat is to be
given to the Bayt-ul-mâl. The remainder is divided and meted
out to the soldiers. Property seized by force from disbelievers
after the war is over is called Fey. All of the fey is dealt out to all
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