5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

were deprived of the honour endowed by Islam. For their
behaviour shows that they despise and disignore the
commandments and prohibitions of Allâhu ta’âlâ. And this, in its
turn, causes one to lose one’s value and respectability.
As we have stated earlier, women who have become
disbelievers, renegades, cannot be used as jâriyas in the Dârul-harb,
according to reports termed Zâhir. According to reports
called Nawâdir, on the other hand, they can be used as jâriyas,
which fact, too, we have already stated; and we have explained
also that this permissibility can be exploited for the purpose of
giving a renegade woman back to her husband. For reports
termed Nawâdir are weak, untenable. They can be acted upon
only in a useful way (in cases when no one will suffer harm).
Exploitability of Nawâdir reports is only to the extent that they
indicate that women who do not attach importance to the
Sharî’at will lose their honour as a Muslim and will be lowered to
the level of jâriya in the Dâr-ul-islâm and therefore it will be
permissible to look at their head and arms. This license should
not be extended to the assumption that it might be permissible
in the Dâr-ul-harb to seize them and use them like a jâriya or to
have sexual intercourse with them. It is permissible to look at
someone else’s jâriya, yet it is not permissible to have sex with
her without a nikâh. By the same token, it would be an
extremely repulsive mistake to infer that one can have sex with
a prostitute since she has lost her honour as a Muslim by
committing adultery and become like a jâriya. It would be
fornication, and it is disbelief to say that fornication is
permissible.
If one of the husband and wife disappears, the other party
can enter into another marriage as soon he or she is informed
that his or her spouse has become a renegade.
If both the husband and the wife turn renegades in the Dârul-islâm,
the nikâh will not become void. If both of them become
Believers again, the nikâh still will not become void. When both
of them become renegades, the nikâh will become void if one of
them goes to the Dâr-ul-harb. It will become void when the dârs
(countries in which they live) become different. Also, it would
become void if one of them became a Muslim again before the
other one did. (In case a child’s parents are of different
religions), the child’s religion is the same as the better one of
the religions held by the parents living with the child. So is the
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