5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

poor when he becomes rich. It is necessary to make a niyyat
(intend formally) for kaffârat.
People who have an excuse must eat secretly on the days
when they cannot fast. Those who purposely do not observe
the fast and eat in the presence of Muslims at public places and
those who mislead fasting people and prevent their fast lose
their îmân. It is sinful to run places for eating and drinking, such
as restaurants, cafeterias, casinos and buffets during the days
of Ramadân. What they earn from those who do not observe
the fast is halâl, but abominable and harmful. They must be
opened after the iftâr.
3 – SADAQA FITR
All of the following information was translated originally
from Durr-ul-mukhtâr, and from Ibni Âbidîn’s Radd-ulmukhtâr,
which is an explanation of the former:
By the first light of the morning of the first day of ’Iyd of
Ramadân, to give the Fitra becomes wâjib for every free Muslim
who has property or money as much as the amount of nisâb in
addition to his indispensable possessions and debts. It does not
become wâjib before or after that time. The property that is to
be included in the calculation of nisâb for fitra and Qurbân does
not necessarily have to be intended for trade, nor does one
have to have had it for one year. The condition is that one
should have property as much as the amount of nisâb by the
time morning prayer becomes performable on the first day of
’Iyd. Giving the fitra is not wâjib for a person who receives the
amount of nisâb or who is born, or becomes a Muslim after that
moment. It is necessary also for the safarî (traveller) to give the
fitra. It is also permissible to give it during Ramadân-i-sherîf,
before Ramadân, or after the ’Iyd. Furthermore, if a person died
before giving the fitra, zakât, kaffârat or something he vowed,
and if he did not will it in his last request that it must be given, it
is permissible for one of his inheritors to give it to the poor out of
his own property, [not necessarily out of the dead person’s
property]. But the inheritor does not have to give it. If he willed
that it must be given, it is necessary to give it out of a third of
the property he has left behind. His will is not executed if he has
not left property. There will be more blessings if the fitra is given
before the ’Iyd prayer. It cannot be given before Ramadân in
Shâfi’î Madhhab and before ’Iyd in the Madhâhib of Mâlikî and
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