5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

and so his will will become invalid. Kâdızâde says in his
explanation of the Birgivî:
To avoid the risk of a wrong or invalid practice, if the
deceased person did not have any property, or if one-third of
the property he left behind does not suffice for the isqât, or if he
did not make a will and the guardian wants to perform the isqât
with his own property, he will perform dawr [1] . But the guardian
does not have to perform dawr. To perform dawr, the guardian
borrows as much gold or silver -gold coins, gold five lira pieces,
bracelets, rings, valid silver coins- as will suffice for a month’s or
a year’s isqât. The years of debt are calculated by subtracting
twelve years -if the deceased person is a man -or nine years- if
the deceased person is a woman- from a lifetime. Ten and a
half kilograms of wheat is to be given for one day’s six
prayers of namâz and three thousand and eight hundred
kilograms for a solar year. For example, when one kilogram of
wheat cost 1.80 liras, for the isqât of a year’s namâz six
thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight or, let us say, six
thousand and nine hundred, liras would be required. Since one
gold coin [which weighs seven grams and twenty centigrams],
cost a hundred and twenty liras when one kilogram of wheat
cost 1.80 liras, which means that one kilogram of wheat equals
one-tenth [1/9.26] gram of gold in value, the isqât of a month’s
(debt of) namâz requires four plus three quarters [4.75] gold
coins, and consequently the isqât of a year’s namâz requires
fifty-seven and a half, or, circumspectly, sixty, gold coins.
The deceased person’s guardian borrows five gold coins, or
bracelets with the same weight, and finds one or more, e.g.
four, poor people who are not fond of worldly things and who
know and love their religion. [These people must be poor
enough to be exempted from the liability of giving the fitra and
to be among those who can be given zakât. If they are not (so)
poor, the isqât will not be acceptable]. The deceased person’s
guardian, that is, the person to whom he has made his will, or
one of his inheritors or the person deputizing one of his
inheritors gives the five gold coins to the first poor person, with
the intention of alms, saying, “I give you these five golds as
compensation for the isqât-i salât of the deceased ....................
Bey.” When giving the alms to the poor person it is permissible
[1] Its lexical meaning is ‘circulation’.
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