5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

his children and friends. He should request them to see to that
people whom he has hurt, offended or wronged or to whom he
owes, (if there are any such people) be paid their rights or dues
or apologized to or somehow pleased, to pay his debts, to
perform isqât for him and, (if hajj has become obligatory for
him), to either make hajj on his behalf or to have a deputy sent.
He should state his wishes concerning his funeral service and
after burial. He should never forget to request that his debt of
Mahr-i muejjel to his wife be paid back. And he should choose
a guardian in the presence of two fair witnesses for fulfilling his
wishes in accordance with the rules of the Sharî’a. Kâdihân
(rahmatullâhi ’aleyh) says, “According to Imâm Muhammad
(rahmatullâhi ’aleyh) it is permissible to enjoin that a cemetery
should be made or that a hotel or a mosque or a fountain
should be built for travellers or that shrouds or coffins should be
bought or graves should be dug for Muslims or expenses of a
mosque should be met with one-third of your property.
However, it is not permissible to enjoin to build a penitentiary by
allocating one-third of one’s property, for this duty is the
government’s responsibility. If the deceased person enjoined
performance of hajj, the deputy must be sent forth from the city
where he died. If the property is not sufficient to cover the
expenses from the city of residence, the deputy is to be sent
from an affordable location. If he enjoined Jihâd, then the
property is given to the soldiers and/or is spent on military
equipment. It is permissible to make a bequest to poor
disbelievers who believe in another Holy Book, but it is not
permissible to enjoin building of a church. It would not be valid
to bequeath a pardon for one’s convicted murderer. If a person
leaves only a house, he is permitted to enjoin that a certain
person should live there. In this case, the latter can live in the
house till death. Before it becomes evident by its symptoms that
death is quite close, it is permissible for the person in his
deathbed to give a gift to one of his children for the purpose of
rewarding the extra services he has done or because he is in
need, unless the ill person shows signs of mental
incompetence. If the bequest is made to distribute one-third of
one’s property to the poor within the city, it will be permissible to
distribute it even to the poor who live in other cities. Even if the
bequest provides that the money should be distributed to ten
poor people, it is permissible to give all of it to one poor person,
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