5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

foundation is like building a mosque for Muslims. Building a
mosque is not an act of worship by itself, but donating to a
pious foundation is an act of worship by itself. For example,
making an ablution is not an act of worship by itself, but it is a
condition (to be fulfilled for the acceptability) of namâz, which is
an act of worship by itself. Likewise, shrouding a dead Muslim is
a condition for the acceptability of the namâz of janâza. The
satr-i-awrat of the dead is a condition of the namâz of janâza.
One has to fulfil the absolute nazr immediately, even if one
is poor. If the state of death is felt before one has fulfilled it, one
has to add fulfilment of kaffârat to one’s will. It is also
permissible to delay it without a good excuse. When fulfilling the
nazr, one does not have to fulfil also the things which one has
designated to do. For example, if one has vowed to give a
certain amount of money to a particular poor person at a certain
place and time, or to perform the namâz at a certain place, one
does not have to observe these particulars. Yet one cannot
change the vowed amount. However, if one vowes to give gold
coins to a certain poor person at a certain place for Allah’s
sake, one will have to give them to that particular poor person.
For, one’s not appointing the (number of) gold coins or the
(amount of) property one is going to give shows that one wants
to appoint the poor person.
2 - Conditional vow. When the condition one has desired
occurs one has to fulfil the nazr. [It is written in Fatâwâ-ikhayriyya
that it is permissible to pay the kaffârat prescribed for
an oath instead of fulfilling the nazr. It is written at the end of the
chapter about fasting in the marginal notes titled Imdâd by
Tahtâwî (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh), “It is deduced from âyats
and hadîths that nazr is permissible. If one has made the nazr
depend upon the occurrence of a condition one desires, one will
have to fulfil the nazr when the condition one has stipulated
occurs. If one has stipulated a condition one does not desire to
occur, when the condition one does not desire occurs one fulfils
the nazr if one likes, if the nazr is hajj, fasting, alms, or
supererogatory namâz. If one does not want to fulfil the nazr of
this kind, one may pay the kaffârat for an oath instead. For
example, if one says, “May it be my nazr to give a hundred
pounds as alms for Allah’s sake if I ever speak to Alî again,”
and then speaks to Alî, he has a choice between giving the
alms or paying the kaffârat prescribed for an oath. But if one
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