5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

people living near that Walî’s tomb and present the thawâb to
the Walî’s soul.’ It is harâm for the rich to accept things given in
fulfilment of such vows. Property which is not given as alms to
the poor is not acceptable as a vow. For example, such vows as
burning candles on graves, lighting candles (or lights) on
minarets, saying mawlids loudly in mosques like songs and
dance music are not acceptable. It is harâm and useless to pay
or take money for such things.” It is written at the end of ’Uqûdud-durriyya
that it is bid’a to use more lights than usual in
mosques on sacred nights. The same is written in the chapter
about the rules concerning a mosque in Eshbâh.
Some people make a vow by saying, “Table of Zachariah.”
They put 40 kinds of fruit on a table, and then they invite their
neighbors and close friends to eat from this table. They expect
that the wishes they make as they eat at these tables will come
true. Such a vow is bid’at. It is a Jewish custom. It is harâm for
anyone, except a poor person, to eat from something that has
been vowed. To cause bid’at and harâm is a grave sin.
It is permissible to vow to kill an animal when laying a
foundation or when one’s sick relative recovers and then to give
the meat as alms to the poor. It produces thawâb for alms.
6 – OATHS—KAFFÂRAT FOR AN OATH
Yemîn (oath) means strength. It indicates strength in a
statement, intention or desire to do or not to do something.
Also, the words “half”, “hilf”, and “qasem” can be used instead
of “yemîn.” There are three kinds of yemîn:
1 - Ghamûs oath, [which causes sin and going to Hell]. It is
to knowingly swear a false, lying oath on something in the past.
It is a grave sin. In order to repent, tawba and istighfâr are
necessary, but not kaffârat.
2 - Mun’aqida oath. It is to swear an oath to do or not to do
something in future. There are three types. In all three types,
breach of the oath necessitates kaffârat. But kaffârat is not paid
before the breach:
A) There is no given time. If a person swears that he will
beat Ahmad, the oath is not broken if he does not beat him as
long as both are alive. The oath is broken when either one dies.
For, when he swears that he will beat Ahmad, it does not
become wâjib for him to do it till his death. If he swears that he
will not beat Ahmad and does not beat him till after his death,
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