5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

special meal to the expected visitor.
It is permissible to fulfil the absolute nazr before the
appointed time. But it is not sahîh to fulfil the dependent nazr
before the desired condition comes into being. A person who
has vowed something as alms can give something else of the
same value or its equivalent. He who has woved to fast in a
certain month has to fast every day in that month, and has to
make qadâ of the omitted days. If he has not appointed the
name of the month, he fasts for one month [thirty days], which
he can complete in several months. If a sick person vows that
he will fast for a month for Allah’s sake and then dies before
recovering from his illness, nothing is required. If he recovers
even one day before his death and does not fast on that day, he
wills an isqât for the whole month.
Whether rich or poor, a person cannot eat from the meat of
the animal killed as the fulfilment of his vow, nor can he give it
to people to whom it is not permissible to give zakât. Nor can he
let his parents, children, wife, [or husband, if the person is a
woman], eat from the meat, even if they are poor. If he should
eat or let those people eat from it, he gives the equivalent of the
meat eaten as alms to the poor. Of his relatives and household,
whether young or old, everyone who he is permitted to give his
zakât to can eat from the meat. But the rich ones cannot. If they
do, the performer of the vow will have to give the equivalent of
what they have eaten to the poor.
Ibni ’Âbidîn ‘rahmatullâhi ’aleyh’ says at the end of his
discourse on zakât for sheep: In zakât, ’ushr, kharâj, fitra, nazr,
and in all kinds of kaffârat except manumiting slaves, it is
permissible to give the equivalent of property which is not mithlî
even if the property itself exists. [Property of zakât can be given
as an equivalent for property of zakât. Other property cannot be
given. Any property can be given for other kinds of property]. It
is permissible to give three fat sheep instead of four thin sheep.
For things that are mithlî, that is, things that can be measured
by weight or volume, their equivalent of the same kind cannot
be given. For example, it is not permissible to give four gold
coins of high carat instead of five gold coins of lower carat or
four pounds of good wheat instead of five pounds of wheat of
poorer quality. It is necessary to give the same amount (five
gold coins or five pounds of wheat) of the better quality too. But
it is permissible to give their equivalent of some other kind. For,
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