5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

put) and the salât (of janâza) is performed.
There are three kinds of martyrs. 1- If a Muslim who is not
junub, who is not in her monthly period, who is discreet and has
reached the age of puberty is killed unjustly by torture or by
being hit with a sharp weapon, or if he is killed with any weapon
by the enemy while making jihâd against the enemies of religion
in a war for Allah’s sake or by rebels, highwaymen, anarchists
or (at night) by a thief during the time of peace –if he dies
immediately–, or if he is found dead with such signs of murder
as a wound or blood on him at a place where there has been a
conflict against the abovesaid (outlaws), where he must have
been in order to defend the lives and property of Muslims and
zimmîs, or if he is found dead in town and his murderer is
known and qisâs (taliation) becomes necessary, he is called a
martyr of the world and the Hereafter or a perfect martyr. The
perfect martyr is not washed in the world. Nor is he shrouded.
His clothes exceeding the amount of material used for a shroud
are taken off, and he is buried with his underwear. The salât of
janâza for him is performed in Hanafî Madhhab. But it is not
performed in Shâfi’î Madhhab. He attains the thawâb for
matrydom in the Hereafter. 2- A person who does not intend to
make jihâd for Allah’s sake and who fights for wordly
advantages becomes only a martyr of the world. Martyrs of
this sort are not washed or shrouded. Yet they cannot attain the
thawâb of martyrdom in the Hereafter. 3- If he dies during the
preparatory drills for jihâd, or if a person killed with oppression
or wounded in jihâd or while fighting against anarchists, rebels,
highwaymen or (at night) thieves does not die immediately but
stays alive and conscious until the duration of one salât time is
over or is taken to somewhere else and dies there, or if he is
junub or (she is) in her monthly regulation, he (or she) becomes
only a martyr of the Hereafter. He (or she) is washed and
shrouded in the world. Those who are killed by such
chastisements as Hadd, Ta’zîr, qisâs [or who are executed by
being shot or hanged], and those who are killed by a beast are
washed.
Those who die as a result of drowning, burning, of
destitution, or from being crushed under a collapsing wall or
other building, those who die of diarrhoea, of plague [or another
hectic disease], during lochia, of an epileptic fit, on a Friday
night, [which is the night between Thursday and Friday], or on a
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