5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

appointed during the vow. But it will not be acceptable if the
number of days is one day less (than the vowed number). The
dependent nazr cannot be fulfilled before the condition it
depends on occurs. One can still make changes as to the poor
person (to be given the alms), place, and kind of money.
If a person who has made it his nazr to fast every day during
the month of Rajab becomes ill and cannot fulfil it, he will have
to make qadâ of his fastings later, as with Ramadân.
If something unlike any fard or wâjib is vowed, it is not
necessary to fulfil it. The type of worship it is like has to be a
fard-i-ayn. It is not necessary to fulfil the nazr which is like a
fard-i-kifâya. An example of this is visiting a sick person.
Entering a mosque cannot be vowed, though it is fard to enter
the Majid-i-harâm for tawâf (visiting) or to enter a mosque after
the imâm for Friday prayer. For, entering a mosque is not an act
of worship by itself, but it is a part of an act of worship. Though
it is fard to help one’s needy parents, visiting one’s parents
cannot be vowed because it is not an act of worship by itself.
To sum up, when something is vowed its fulfilment is
necessary if it has five conditions:
I - It has to belong to the class of a fard-i-ayn or wâjib.
II - It has to be an act of worship by itself.
III - It shouldn’t be a sin in itself. It is permissible to vow to
fast on the ’Iyd day of qurbân. For, fasting is not a sin in itself. In
this case one will have to fast some other day. Vowing
something which is harâm becomes an oath. It is sinful to fulfil
it. For example, when one vows to kill so and so, one does not
kill so and so, but pays the kaffârat for an oath, instead.
IV - It is not sahîh to vow to do something which is already
fard for one to do. For example, hajj is already fard for a rich
person who vows to become hadji. To vow to become a hadji is
to inform that one is going to make the hajj that is fard. For, he
who makes a supererogatory hajj cannot become a hadji.
Because it is not sahîh to vow the hajj which is fard, in this case
it is fard for the rich person to make hajj only once. It is not
necessary for him to go again for the fulfilment of his vow.
If a rich person vows to kill a sheep as a qurbân on one of
the days of the ’Iyd of qurbân, he will have to kill two sheep, one
for the vow and the other for the ’Iyd of qurbân. If this person
means the qurbân of the ’Iyd when vowing, he kills only one
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