5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

are built for performing the five daily prayers of salât and their
subsidiaries, such as the salât which is supererogatory, sunna,
[or qadâ], for reading (the Qur’ân or other religious books), for
preaching and teaching the religion. In case of such ’udhrs as
rain, a storm, or illness, the salât of janâza can be performed
inside the mosque. But the corpse cannot be taken inside.
A child that dies right after birth is washed, its salât is
performed, it is entitled to be a heir and to leave inheritance,
and it is named. A child that is born dead is not washed and its
salât is not performed if it is not four months old. If it is four
months old it is washed, shrouded in one piece and buried; but
its salât is not performed. The same is done when a child taken
captive together with its parents dies and when an insane adult
person taken captive dies. Such people will not go to Hell, but in
the world they are treated like disbelievers. When a child taken
captive without its parents or a child taken captive with its
parents one of whom has been converted to Islam later or a
discreet (seven-year-old) child that has been converted to Islam
dies, its salât is performed. For being converted to Islam, a
disbeliever has to say the Kalimat-i sahahâdat completely and
believe the six principles of îmân, [that is, Âmentu], when he
hears them.
You should not ask an unlearned person the principles of
îmân and Islam; you should recount them to him and then ask
him if he believes them. If his answer is affirmative, he is a
Muslim. If an unlearned person asked about îmân and Islam
does not answer, it is all right. For, he says he does not know
(or he does not answer at all) because he thinks the answer is
to say certain words in a certain order. In other words, what he
says he does not know is not îmân itself but how to express
îmân. It is not wâjib for a Muslim to wash, to shroud or to bury a
disbeliever. A disbeliever is delivered to other disbelievers. If
there are no other disbelievers, it is permissible to wash him as
you would wash dirty clothes, to wrap him in a piece of cloth
and bury him in a Christian cemetery. A dead renegade is not
washed or shrouded; nor is he delievered to the people of the
religion he has converted to; like a dog’s carcass he is left in a
ditch. Whether a Muslim or an unbeliever, a corpse is never
burned. Nor are its ashes kept. It is not permissible to break or
cut the bones of a corpse even if it is an unbeliever’s.
It is not permissible for an unbeliever to wash a Muslim’s
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