5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

has said, “May my wife be divorced...,” one will have divorced
one’s wife when one speaks to Alî, and it will not be permissible
to pay the kaffârat for an oath. It is not permissible to fulfil the
nazr dependent upon a condition before the condition occurs.
For example, if one has said, “May it be my nazr to give so and
so much money as alms for Allah’s sake and present the
thawâb for it to the soul of Hadrat Sayyed Ahmad Bedevî if my
such and such ill relative recovers,” it is not permissible to fulfil
the nazr before the ill person recovers. One has to fulfil it after
the ill person recovers. Like in the former case, when fulfilling
the dependent nazr it is not necessary to fulfil the specifications
one has made as to time, identity of the poor person, number of
the poor people, or kind of money. The dependent nazr
shouldn’t be fulfilled in return for the occurrence of the
stipulated condition. It should be fulfilled as an act of gratitude
to Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is like making the sajda (prostration) of
gratitude to Him].
Necessity of the fulfilment of nazr is declared in Qur’ân alkerîm
and in hadîths, and there is ijmâ’i-umma on this. The
twenty-ninth âyat of Hajj Sûra declares: “They must fulfil their
vows!” It is, therefore, wâjib to fulfil the nazr. Some (’ulamâ)
said that it is fard.
Fasting, salât [namâz], alms, i’tikâf, manumiting slaves, and
hajj, —even by walking—, can be vowed. For, each of these is
an act of worship by itself and is like either a fard or a wâjib. For
example, it is fard to manumit a slave for the kaffârat of fasting.
Going on hajj by walking is fard for those Meccans who can.
The worship here is not walking, but it is the hajj. And i’tikâf is
like the sitting posture in the last rak’at of namâz. As for waqf
(donation to a pious foundation), it is fard for the state to build a
mosque for Muslims in every city by using the funds reserved
for this purpose in the Beytulmâl. If the state does not build it, it
becomes fard for Muslims.
When the nazrs of i’tikâf, hajj, salât, fasting, alms are not
dependent, it is permissible to fulfil them without observing the
specifications as to time, place, identity of the poor, and kind of
money. For example, if one vows to give certain silver coins to a
certain poor person in Mekka, on, let us say, Friday, it is
permissible for one to give other silver coins to another person
at some other place and time instead. It is permissible to
perform the vowed hajj, salât, i’tikâf, or fasting before the time
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