5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

do them (on your behalf). For this reason, it is written in Behjetul
fatâwâ, “If a person begins with the Fâtiha and reads Qur’ân
al-kerîm up to the Sûrat-al Fil or the Sûrat-al Ikhlâs and then
advises someone to read the remaining few sûras on his behalf,
and if the latter reads them, the former person, who has read
Qur’ân al-kerîm from the beginning, has not done a Khatm.
People who have listened to either one of them have not
listened to a khatm. And none of them attains the thawâb of a
khatm.” If those who have read (the parts allotted to them)
present the thawâb separately to the souls of the deceased, or
if one of them presents the thawâbs for all of them, that is, if he
does the prayer of khatm and if those who have read say Âmîn,
the thawâbs of all the âyats read will be given to the deceased,
too. But they will not attain the thawâb promised for a khatm.
One khatm must be read by one person only, and the thawâb
must be presented by him. It will be permissible and very useful
if various people do a khatm of Qur’ân al-kerîm for a deceased
person each of them reading one section (juz) silently and
sending the thawâb for the section he has read to the deceased
person’s soul or one of them presenting the thawâb for all of
them to the deceased person, that is, (one of them) doing the
prayer of khatm and the others who have read their sections
saying, “Âmîn.” But this will not produce the thawâb for khatm.
One person must read the khatm or one person must send the
thawâb for the khatm he has done before. So is the case with
reading an âyat of sajda. It is written in Durr-ul muhktâr, “If
each of several people reads one word of an âyat of sajda, it
will not be necessary for those who hear them to perform the
sajda of tilâwat. For, when one person reads an âyat of sajda it
becomes wâjib for those who hear him to perform the sajda of
tilâwat.” Words read by various people cannot be brought
together as if one person had read the whole âyat. For, no one
can deputize someone else to read Qur’ân al-kerîm.
It is written in Khulâsat-ul fatâwâ, “The Iraqi savants found
it unsuitable to read the sûrat-ul Ikhlâs thrice at the end of the
khatm of Qur’ân al-kerîm.”
Ibn Âbidîn says, “The deceased recognize those who visit
their graves on Fridays. Rasûlullah (sallallâhu ’alaihi wasallam)
used to visit the martyrs on the mount of Uhud and say the
prayer, ‘Es-salâmu ’alaikum bi-mâ sabartum fa-ni’ma ’uqbad-dâr.’
The hadjis (Muslim pilgrims) should visit that place early
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