5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

performed today are incompatible with the Sharî’a” instead of
being opposed to isqât and dawr, they would be doing well, and
we would be supporting them; by saying so, they would both be
safe against a great danger and be serving Islam. Ibn Abidîn
explains how to perform isqât and dawr as prescribed by the
Sharî’a at the end of the subject about the namâz of qadâ.
If a person has fâita salât, [that is, prayers of salât which he
left to qadâ because he could not perform them for some ’udhr],
and if he has still not performed them even with signs though he
could have, it is wâjib for him to enjoin in his will that the isqât
should be done for their kaffârat when he is about to die. But he
does not have to enjoin the isqât if he has not had the power to
perform them. Likewise, if a musâfir or a sick person who did
not fast in Ramadân-i sherîf dies before having time to make
qadâ, he does not have to enjoin the isqât. Allâhu ta’âlâ will
accept the ’udhrs of such people. [The isqât for a sick person’s
kaffârat is performed by his walî after his death. It is not
performed before he dies. It is not permissible for a living
person to have the isqât performed for himself. It is stated in the
Shâfi’î book Anwâr, “It is not wâjib according to the Shâfi’î
Madhhab to give fidya for the prayers of namâz omitted by a
dead Muslim. The fidya given, if any, will not stand for isqât.”
Imâm-i-birgivî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh’, a Hanafî scholar,
states in his book Jilâ-ul qulûb that if a person owes debts to
Allâhu ta’âlâ or to people it is wâjib for him to say his will in the
presence of two witnesses or to read to them what he has
written. And (to say or write) a will is mustahab for a person
without debts].
For the isqât of kaffârat, the deceased person’s walî, that is,
the person to whom he has instructed to distribute his property
to the appropriate places, or his heir, gives alms as much as the
fitra amount, that is, half a sâ’ [five hundred and twenty dirhams
or seventeen hundred and fifty grams] of wheat for each prayer
of salât and the same amount for each salât of witr and the
same amount for a day’s fasting for which qadâ is necessary,
as fidya to the poor [or to their deputy], from the third part of this
property.
If the deceased person did not enjoin in his will that the isqât
of kaffârat be done, his walî does not have to perform the isqât
of kaffârat in Hanafî Madhhab. It is stated in Naf’ul-anâm fî
isqât-is-salâti wa-s-siyâm, a book (written by scholars) in
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