5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

nazr.
1 - Absolute nazr is, for example, to say, “I shall fast for one
year for the sake of Allâhu ta’âlâ.” It is not dependent upon a
condition. It becomes wâjib to fulfil it, even if one did not mean it
while saying it or it slipped out inadvertently during a
conversation. For, in matters of talâq (divorce) and nazr,
uttering without an intention or thought is like uttering seriously
and intentionally. In fact, if one inadvertently says, “...to fast for
a month..,” instead of saying, “Let it be a debt upon me to fast
for a day for Allahu ta’âlâ,” it becomes necessary for one to fast
for a month.
Nazr is an act of worship. For, namâz, fasting, going on hajj,
manumiting a slave, and other kinds of worship can be vowed.
The Sharî’a commands the fulfilment of the nazr. It is sinful not
to fulfil it. Nazr is like taking an oath. If a person says, “Let it be
my nazr,” without naming the thing vowed and without intention,
it becomes necessary for him to pay the kaffârat prescribed for
an oath. If a person says, “I will fast for Allah’s sake,” without
mentioning the number of days of the fast and without intending
for anything, or if he intends only for a nazr without thinking of
whether or not it is an oath, or if he intends both for a nazr and
for an oath, his fasting becomes a nazr, and he fasts three
days. If he intends not for a nazr but for an oath while saying it,
it becomes an oath. If he breaks his fast it becomes necessary
for him to pay the kaffârat (penalty) prescribed for an oath. If he
intends both for a nazr and for an oath, or only for an oath
without out the nazr, the fasting becomes both an oath and a
nazr. If he breaks the fast, both qadâ and the kaffârat for
breaking an oath become necessary.
The thing vowed has to be like one of the kinds of worship
which is fard or wâjib and has to be an act of worship by itself.
For example, making an ablution or shrouding the dead, which
are not acts of worship by themselves, cannot be a nazr.
Visiting the ill, carrying the dead Muslims to their graves,
making a ghusl, entering mosques, holding the Qur’ân, calling
the adhân, building schools, building mosques are within the
area of worship, too. But none of them is an act of worship by
itself. They cannot be vowed. The fard or wâjib which the vowed
thing has to be like does not have to be an act of worship by
itself. For example, it is permissible to vow donating something
to a pious foundation. For, donating something to a pious
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