5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Muslims. For this purpose it is put into the Bayt-ul-mâl. Kharâj
and jizya are fey. Since a woman who turns a renegade
becomes a fey, her husband finds her and, if he has the right,
asks the Khalîfa to give her to him or, if he does not have the
right, buys her from the Khalîfa. Her becoming a Muslim again
later will not save her from the state of being a jârîya. Dzengiz
Khân captured the Muslim cities in Asia and martyred Muslims.
He prohibited Islamic practices. The cities he captured became
Dâr-ul-harb. If a woman who turns a renegade is caught by her
husband in the Dâr-ul-harb, she does not become fey. She
becomes his own jâriya. He does not have to buy her from the
Khalîfa. If she does not have a child, he can sell this jâriya to
others. These heavy punishments prevent women from turning
renegades.
[A jâriya, even if she is an umm-i-walad [1] , and a slave can
marry with the permission of their masters. During their married
life they go on serving their owners. An umm-i-walad cannot be
sold. When a jâriya’s or slave’s owner dies, she or he is
inherited by the owner’s heirs. An umm-i-walad becomes free
(upon her owner’s death). A jâriya’s child by her owner
becomes free. Her child by her husband is not free].
Khalîfa ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ saw a songstress playing an
instrument and singing. He hit her on the head with his whip,
tearing her headgear open. When they said, “O Emîr-almu’minîn!
The woman’s head is left bare,” he answered, “A
person who slights something forbidden by Allâhu ta’âlâ has
lost his Islamic honour. Islam makes honourable women
valuable by covering them.” It is for this reason that when the
great scholar Qâdî Abû Bekr-i-Belhî ‘rahmatullâhi ’aleyh’ was
asked why he had walked by “uncovered women” because he
had passed by some place occupied by women with bare
heads and arms, he said, “They are worthless, inferior women.
It is doubtful whether they have îmân. They are like female
disbelievers in the Dâr-ul-harb.” This statement of his means
that those women are like jâriyas who have become fey. A
jâriya’s heads and arms are not her awrat parts. Hadrat ’Umar
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ not only said that female singers had lost their
Islamic honour, but also stated that those women who did not
cover their heads and arms at places open to nâ-mahram men
[1] A slave mother to her owner’s child.
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