Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

Madhhab anyone who sucks (from the same mother), regardless of
age, becomes a milk relative, but according to the imâms
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ of the other three Madhhabs,
if they suck milk after the age of two and a half, they will not
become milk relatives.
It is also eternally harâm to marry four kinds of women who
become one’s relatives after marriage. If one has already
performed the nikâh, or had adultery with a woman, then he can
never marry her mother, her mother’s mother, or her father’s
mother. When a man has sex with his wife, he can never marry the
daughter which she had from another husband. A man can never
marry a woman with whom his father or his own son made a nikâh,
i.e. his step-mother or his daughter-in-law. A woman can never
marry her step-father, stepson, father-in-law or son-in law. It is
permissible to marry an “Âkhirat-sister” or “Âkhirat-brother”, or
brother-or-sister-in Tarîqat, or “Âkhirat-mother.” The status of
these people is different from the status of one’s own sister or
mother. It is harâm for one to see their heads, hair, arms, legs, to
chat with them, to stay alone with them in the same room, or to
travel long distance with them. These things are not halâl in any
Tarîqat. He who says that they are halâl becomes a disbeliever, a
zindiq.
There are seven more women whom a man cannot marry due
to temporary situations. When these temporary situations cease to
exist he can marry them. Five of them are harâm due to a nikâh. A
man cannot chat or marry the sisters of the girl with whom he has
made nikâh. If the woman whom he has already married dies, or if
he divorces her, then he can marry her sister. These girls are called
the man’s ‘sisters-in-law’ (bald›z in Turkish). The man is called the
girls’ ‘brother-in-law’ (enishte). The man’s brothers are the
‘brothers-in-law’ (kayin birâder) of the girl who is married by way
of nikâh to the man, and the girl, in turn, is their ‘sister-in-law’
(yenge in Turkish). A woman cannot stay alone in the same room
with any one of her enishtes or kayin birâders; nor can she go on a
long-distance journey with them. In other words, a woman’s
enishtes or kayin birâders are not her mahram relatives.
As long as a man is married to a woman, it will be harâm for
him to marry her paternal and maternal aunts, or her sisters’ or
brothers’ daughters. It is also harâm to marry these five women
when they are the wife’s milk-relatives. In the Hanafî, Mâlikî and
Hanbalî Madhhabs the women who are harâm for one to marry
because of the sex act one performs with one’s wife, will also
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