5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

should be given to the poor. So-and-so much money shall be
spent making sweetmeats, and they shall be distributed to the
poor. So-and-so much shall be spent for my grave. The rest of
this reserved thuluth my appointed trustee shall spend on such
pious and charitable deeds as he chooses. I have chosen and
appointed Ahmed Ağa, who is present here, for the execution of
this will of mine.’ Ahmed Ağa has listened and acceded to this
will, and he has undertaken to do all of it the best way. And we
the undersigned, have seen and heard and therefore bear
witness that he was present.”
Signed Signed
Osmân son of Hasan Ahmed son
Signed Signed
Ömer son of Süleymân Bekr son of
It is written in Behjet-ul fatâwâ, “If the executor appointed
(by the deceased) to use one-third of the property in charitable
deeds spends so much of the property in charitable deeds, the
heirs of the deceased cannot question him on who he has given
so much property.”
If a person dies without having appointed an executor, the
judge appoints an executor for the fulfilment of his will.
While explaining fâsid sales, the book Radd-ul mukhtâr
states, “When the heirs know that others have dues from the
inherited property and also who the dues belong to, they have
to give them their dues. (Otherwise), the property will be harâm
for the heirs. If they do not know who the dues belong to but if
they are able to distinguish the property which belongs to
others, that distinguished property will still be harâm for the
heirs. They must give that property as alms to the poor with the
intention that the thawâb shall belong to the owner of the
property. If that property has been mixed up with the
deceased’s propery and if its owners are not known, it becomes
halâl for the heirs, according to scholars. [If a civil servant
bequeaths to one of his heirs some money in form of
compensation or salary as he dies, the money becomes the
receiver’s property. The other inheritors cannot demand any
share from the money.]
It is permissible to eat the food offered by a person who is
known to have been earning money by cruelty, bribery,
extortion or theft, or whose loans are known to be paid with
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