5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

to say, “I give you these as a present.” Then the poor person,
(taking possession of the gold coins), says, “I accept and take
them, and I present them to you,” and gives them to the
inheritor or to the inheritor’s deputy, who takes possession of
them. Thus, one dawr (circulation; rotation) will be completed by
giving (the golds) to one poor person four times or to each of
the four poor people once and taking them back. With one dawr
(the deceased person) will have been absolved of twenty gold
coins of kaffârat of salât. If the deceased person was a man
and was sixty years old, 48x60=2880 gold coins will be
necessary for forty-eight years’ salât. So, the dawr is to be done
2880:20=144 times. If the number of gold coins is ten, 72 dawrs
will be done, and if the number of gold coins is twenty, thirty-six
dawrs will be completed.
If the number of poor people is ten and the number of gold
coins is ten, too, twenty-nine dawrs will be completed for the
isqât of kaffârat for forty-eight years’ debt of salât.
The number of the years during which he (the deceased
person) did not perform namâz x the number of gold coins
for one year=the number of the poor x the number of gold
coins circulating x the number of dawrs. This applied to the
example we have given:
48x60=4x5x144=4x10x72=4x20x36=10x10x29
As it is seen, for determining the number of the dawrs (to be
done) for the isqât of salât, the number of the gold coins
(required) for one year will be multiplied by the number of
the years of debt of salât. Then the number of the gold
coins circulating will be multiplied by the number of the
poor individuals. The result of the first multiplication will be
divided by the second. The result of the division will indicate
the number of dawrs. Wheat’s and gold’s equivalent in paper
money vary at approximately the same rate in course of time. In
other words, the value of gold and the value of wheat always go
up and down correspondingly. For this reason, as the amount of
wheat for a year’s isqât does not change, so the number of gold
coins for one year’s isqât, i.e. sixty gold coins, as we have
calculated above, remains almost the same. Therefore, in the
calculation of isqât the circumspectly accepted formula is,
except for some extraordinary situations:
Five gold coins for the isqât of a month’s salât.
One gold coin for the isqât of a month’s fasting in Ramadân.
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