5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

addition for ’Iyd. If the rich man intended to sacrifice it as an ’Iyd
qurbân at the time he made his vow, he performs only one
qurbân. If the rich man made his vow before the ’Iyd, then he
certainly should perform two qurbâns. The poor sacrifices only
one. They cannot sell the vowed qurbâns. The animal bought
and slaughtered during the ’Iyd by a musâfir [1] or a poor person
or by a person who has not made an intention or a vow to
perform the qurbân, becomes nafila (supererogatory) worship. It
is wâjib to sacrifice the qurbân which a rich person bought and
intended to perform as a thanksgiving for the blessings of life
instead of intending to sacrifice it as the ’Iyd qurbân at the time
of purchase.” See the following chapter for further details.
The following is an expatiation on the qurbân which is wâjib
for a rich person to perform. The qurbân is not performed by
giving the animals alive as alms to the poor or to pious or
charitable institutions. It is wâjib to butcher them. It is written in
Jawhara that, “The thawâb that will be given for the money
spent on the qurbân is very much more than the thawâb for a
hundred times more [that is, a large amount of] money given as
alms.” It is permissible to appoint someone to act as one’s wakîl
(deputy) to buy the animal for qurbân, butcher it and give the
meat to the poor, and to get these done by someone else and
give the money to buy the animal or the animal alive to the
deputy. But it is mustahab to be present as the animal is
butchered. It is harâm to kill cocks, hens or wild animals such
as deer in the name of qurbân; it means to imitate magians, i.e.,
fire-worshippers.
It is not wâjib for a person who knows he will be poor or
safarî (travelling) on the third day of the ’Iyd to perform the
qurbân on the first day. Yet for a person who knows he will be
rich on the third day it becomes wâjib to perform it at dawn on
the tenth day of (the month of) Zu’l-hijja, which is the first day of
the ’Iyd. It is not determined according to one’s being rich or
poor or muqîm (settled) or safarî (travelling) on the first day of
the ’Iyd. Performing the qurbân is not wâjib for hâdjis (Muslim
pilgrims) who have journeyed to Mekka from other places. For
they are safarî [2 .
[1]
This word has a technical meaning defined by Islam’s Sharî’at. Please
see Endless Bliss Fourth Fascicle.
[2
See the fifteenth chapter in the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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