5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

he comes back and they eat together.
3 - Laghw [vain] oath. It is to swear an oath mistakenly by
making a wrong guess on something in the past. This does not
put one into a sinful state; nor does it entail kaffârat.
In all three kinds, making or violating an oath because of
forgetfulness or under duress is like making or violating it
knowingly and willingly.
For a mun’aquida oath to be sahîh its fulfilment must be
possible mentally and actually. If a certain period of time is
appointed, fulfilment of the oath should be possible until the end
of the appointed time. For, fulfilment of the oath becomes wâjib
at the end of the appointed time. It is sinful to swear for
something impossible. When a person says to another, “I swear
(by Allah) that I will give you your due tomorrow morning,” the
oath will not become sahîh if either one of them dies before
morning. For, it is impossible to fulfil the oath by the appointed
time. When a person swears, “Today I will drink up the water in
this large jug,” the oath will not be sahîh if there is no water in
the jug or if the water is poured out before the day is over. If he
has not appointed a time, his oath will not be sahîh if there is no
water in the jug; but if the water which is in the jug is poured out
after the oath, the oath will be sahîh and will have been
violated, and kaffârat will be necessary, because he has not
drunk it. For, though fulfilment of an oath for which there is no
appointed time becomes wâjib when one is about to die, it is
wâjib to do it whenever one can, because at the time of death it
will be very difficult to fulfil it, or to pay kaffârat or will the
payment of kaffârat if one cannot fulfil it.
If a person swears that he will ascend to the sky or that he
will change a certain piece of stone into gold, he becomes
hânith (a perjurer) and pays kaffârat, because he cannot do it.
For, though science cannot do these two things yet, they are
not impossible mentally. As angels can and some prophets did
ascend to the sky, so the atoms that make up a piece of stone
can change into atoms of gold.
While explaining the talâq (divorce), Ibni Âbidîn says, “If a
person swears, ’May everything which is halâl for me be harâm
if I do such and such a thing,’ twice for two different things, his
wife becomes divorced once when he does the first thing. And
when he does the second thing she becomes divorced a
second time. For, his wife’s not being in his nikâh as he does
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