5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

case with an illegitimate child. Only, the father does not (have
to) support the illegitimate child, nor does this child inherit
(property) from the father. A child’s religion will not be
(determined) after its grandfather’s religion. If a Muslim’s
pubescent child does not have îmân, he becomes a renegade.
If this renegade’s grown-up child does not have îmân, either, he
becomes a disbeliever, not a renegade. If he has become a
disbeliever with a Heavenly Book, an (edible) animal he has
killed (in a manner prescribed by the Sharî’at) can be eaten.
Magians, that is, fireworshippers, and idolators, i.e. idolworshippers,
and all other polytheists are worse than
disbelievers with a Holy Book. Of disbelievers with a Holy Book,
Christians are closer to Muslims than Jews are. Yet Christians
do not kill the (edible) animals by jugulation. They kill them by
strangulation like magians, thus making them carrions. They will
suffer more vehement torment in the Hereafter. Jews do not eat
animals that are not killed by jugulation (cutting the throat). The
disbelief held by Christians is worse. On the other hand, Jews’
enmity to Islam is more bitter. It is disbelief to say that a certain
disbeliever is better than another disbeliever. One should rather
say that the latter is worse than the former. If parents of a small
Christian girl whom a Muslim has married (with a nikâh) turn
renegades later, the girl’s nikâh becomes void even if they do
not go to the Dâr-ul-harb. If one of the parents dies as a
Christian, the girl’s nikâh will not become void. For, if one of the
parents dies as a zimmî or a Muslim or a renegade, and if the
one who is alive is/becomes a magian, the child’s religion will
be the same as the dead parent’s; (that is), the child will not be
a magian. If one of the Muslim parents becomes a renegade
and then dies and the parent who is alive becomes a renegade
and goes to the Dâr-ul-harb, the child’s religion will be
determined in accordance with the dead one’s; it will be
considered a Muslim and its nikâh will not become void. If the
child dies, the namâz of janâza will be performed after it. For a
renegade in the Dâr-ul-islâm is theoretically a Muslim, since he
or she must be forced to become a Muslim again. If one of the
parents who are disbelievers with a Heavenly Book dies and the
parent left alive becomes a Muslim, the child is a Muslim. Its
religion, (in this case), will not take after the dead parent; it will
take after the better one. If both Muslim parents become
renegades together and yet do not take the child to the Dâr-ul-
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