5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

gold coins. Hence, one gold coin absolves the kaffârat of a
year’s fasting; and hence, it is necessary to give forty-eight
gold coins for forty-eight years. Completing one dawr with five
gold coins and four poor people means having given twenty
gold coins. After the performance of the isqât of the fasts
requiring qadâ, a few dawrs must be done first for zakât and
then for the qurbân, then for the sadaqa-i-fitr and then for nazr
and then for rights of other people whose inheritors are not
known.
In the Madhhabs of Mâlikî and Shâfi’î, the report saying that
fidya is made for the (omitted) namâz is observed by giving the
fidya for five prayers of namâz for each day, since the namâz
called Witr is a sunna. It is written in (the books) Al-Anwâr and
Naf’ul-anâm that according to these two Madhhabs one mud’
of wheat is to be given as the fidya of one prayer of namâz and
one fasting. Since one mud’ is 173.3 dirhams, the fidya for a
day’s five prayers of namâz is 2.1 kilograms of wheat, which
makes 63 kilograms of wheat, or 0.875 gold coins, for a month,
and 705 kgr. of wheat, or 10.5 gold coins, for a year, while the
fidya for a month’s fast is 5.2 kilograms of wheat or 0.07 pieces
of gold coins. For imitating Hanafî Madhhab, people who are in
one of the Madhhabs of Mâlikî and Shâfi’î should calculate the
fidya for a month’s prayers of namâz as five gold coins and a
month’s fast as one gold coin.
Doing the kaffârat of one oath requires ten poor people in
one day, and the kaffârat of one day’s fast that was broken
without any acceptable excuse and for which the kaffârat is
necessary requires sixty poor people in one day; and, one poor
person cannot be given more than half a sâ’ of wheat in one
day. That is, the kaffârats for several oaths cannot be given to
ten poor people within the same day. Then, the dawrs for the
kaffârats of oaths and (broken) fasts cannot be done in one
day. Please see the sixth chapter of this book! If (the deceased
person) enjoined (the isqât) for his oaths, you give two
kilograms of wheat or flour, or its equivalent in other property
such as gold and silver, to each of ten poor people in one day.
Or, you may give the same amount to one poor person every
day for ten successive days. Or, (calculating and) giving (the
whole expense in) paper money to a poor person, you must say
to him, “I appoint you my deputy. With this money you shall buy
yourself food and eat it for ten days, twice each day, once in the
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