5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

giving (the gold coins) to the poor person, the guardian must
say, “I give these to you for the isqât of so-and-so’s so and so
many prayers of salât.” And the poor person must say, “I have
accepted them,” and must know that the gold coins belong to
himself when he takes possession of them. If he does not know
this he must be taught beforehand. And this poor person,
showing kindness, gives the gold coins to another poor person
of his own accord, saying, “I give these to you for the isqât of
so-and-so’s salât.” The latter, taking possession of them, must
say, “I accept them.” When he takes possession of them he
must know that they are his property. The dawr will not be
acceptable if he takes them as a deposit for safe-keeping or as
a present. And this second poor person, after saying, ‘I take
and accept them,’ gives them to a third poor person by saying,
“I give these to you the same way.” Thus, dawrs must be done
for prayers of namâz, for fasts, for zakâts, for qurbâns, for
sadaqa fitrs, for votive offerings, for (violated) human and
animal rights. Fâsid and bâtil [1] buying, and selling are among
(violated) human rights. It is not permissible to do dawr for the
kaffârats of an oath or fasting.
After the dawr is finished, the last poor person taking
possession of the gold coins shows kindness and presents
them to the guardian of his own volition and of his own will. The
guardian takes them, saying, “I accept them.” If he (the poor
person) does not present them, they cannot be taken by force,
for they are his own property. The guardian gives the poor
person some gold coins or some paper money or some of the
deceased person’s property and presents the thawâb for the
alms to the deceased person’s soul. A poor person who is in
debt must not join the business of dawr. For, it would be fard for
him to pay his debts as soon as he took possession of the gold
coins. It would not be permissible for him to give the gold coins
to the next person for the deceased person’s kaffârat instead of
paying his debt. The dawr would be acceptable, but he himself,
let alone earning any thawâb, would become sinful. It is written
in Ibn Âbidîn that a child’s giving a present is not sahîh].
If a deceased person without any property enjoined in his
[1] Kinds of buying and selling prohibited by she Sharî’a. There is detailed
information about buying and selling in the Turkish original of Se’âdet-i
Ebediyye.
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