Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

It is not permissible to feed other ten people the same day for the
second time. Therefore, if you feed twenty poor people in the
morning, for instance, you will have to to feed ten of them in the
evening or to give them the equivalent property of sadaqa-i fitr. It
is not obligatory to feed all the poor people on the same day. You
may feed some other ones or former ones the next day. Also, it is
permissible to give a poor person a set of underwear every day for
ten days or to feed him twice a day for ten days or once a day for
twenty days. Also, it is acceptable to give half a sâ’ of wheat or
flour or bread to each of the ten poor people once for one day or
to one poor person once a day for ten days. Material or other
property [such as a cloth, a towel, a handkerchief, socks, stockings,
meat, rice, underwear, slippers, medicine or religious, scientific or
moral books] or gold or silver money of the same value can be
given, instead. If you give ten days’ amount to one poor person in
one day, all of it will be for one day. If you give hundreds of sâ’ to
each of ten poor individuals in one day, it will still be the kaffârat
for one oath. The same rules apply to the kaffârat of an oath paid
on behalf of a dead person. It is permissible to make someone your
deputy to feed the poor or to give the money, and to pay him
afterwards. He who cannot do any of these three things, fasts for
three successive days, instead. For each of these fasts he must
intend (before the end of) the previous night. If a woman begins
menstruating before completing the three days of fast, she does
not continue fasting. She fasts for three more days after the
menstruation is over. Kaffârat for Ramadân’s fast is different. It is
not correct to give the kaffârat before the Hins, i.e., before breach
of the oath takes place. It is sinful to delay the kaffârat for (a
breach of) oath. It is written in Dâmâd: A separate kaffârat is
made for each (broken) oath. If a person says, “Vallahi
verrahmâni verrahîmi, I will not do such and such a thing,” he will
have made three oaths. If he does that thing three kaffârats will be
necessary. It is written in Bedâyi’ and Hindiyya that the poor
people to be fed may be given the fulûs [paper money] to buy the
food themselves. It is necessary to intend while giving the kaffârat.
Rasûlullah ’sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “Most
tradesmen and market-dealers are fâjir (dissolute, sinful)!” When
he was asked the reason he said: “Their buying and selling is not
halâl. For, they sin by swearing and lying very often.” In another
hadîth-i-sherîf he stated: “A person who cheats someone out of his
property by perjury will find Allâhu ta’âlâ wrathful on the
Resurrection Day.” [Please see the second page of the fifteenth
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