Book of Namaz

isqât of a year’s namâz, six thousand five hundred and eighty-eight
or, let us say, six thousand and six hundred liras would be required.
Let us say one gold coin [which weighs seven grams and twenty
centigrams] costs a hundred and twenty liras, the isqât of a year’s
namâz requires fifty-five, or, circumspectly, sixty gold coins. The
deceased person’s walî borrows five gold coins (or other gold of the
same weight) and finds one or more, e.g. four, poor people who are
not fond of worldly things and who know and love their religion.
[These people must be poor enough to be exempted from the
liability of giving the fitra and to be among those who can be given
zakât. If they are not (so) poor, the isqât will not be acceptable].
The deceased person’s guardian, that is, the person to whom he
has made his will, or one of his inheritors or the person deputized,
gives the five gold coins to the first poor person, with the intention
of alms, saying, “I give you this gold as compensation for the isqâti
salât of the deceased known as ……………...”
Then the poor person, (taking possession of the gold coins),
says, “I accept and take them, and I present them to you,” and
gives them to the inheritor or to the inheritor’s deputy, who takes
possession of them.
Then, the inheritor or the inheritor's deputy gives the gold
coins to the same poor person or the second one and takes them
back as being gifted.
Thus, one dawr (circulation; rotation) will be completed by
giving (the gold) to one poor person four times or to each of the
four poor people once and taking them back.
With one dawr (the deceased person) will have been absolved
of twenty gold coins of kaffârat of salât. If the deceased person was
a man and was sixty years old, 48x60=2880 gold coins will be
necessary for forty-eight years’ salât. So, the dawr is to be done
2880:20=144 times. If the number of gold coins is ten, 72 dawrs will
be done, and if the number of gold coins is twenty, thirty-six dawrs
will be completed. If the number of poor people is ten and the
number of gold coins is ten, too, twenty-nine dawrs will be
completed for the isqât of kaffârat for forty-eight years’ debt of
salât. Because:
The number of the years during which he (the deceased
person) did not perform namâz x the number of gold coins for one
year = the number of the poor x the number of gold coins
circulating x the number of dawrs. This applied to the example we
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