Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

entire Qur’ân is much greater. Since such worships as performing
namâz, fasting, reading (or reciting) the Qur’ân al-kerîm and
dhikring are done only with the body, everyone has to do them
themselves. It is not permissible to appoint a deputy and have him
do them (on your behalf). For that matter, it is written in Behjetul
fatâwâ: “If a person begins with the Fâtiha and reads the Qur’ân
al-kerîm up to the Sûrat-al Fil or the Sûrat-al Ikhlâs and then
advises someone to read the remaining few sûras on his behalf, and
if the latter reads them, the former person, who has read the
Qur’ân al-kerîm from the beginning, has not made a Khatm.
People who have listened to either one of them have not listened
to a khatm being made. And none of them attains the thawâb of a
khatm.” If those who have read (the parts allotted to them)
present the thawâb separately to the souls of the deceased, or if
one of them presents the thawâbs for all of them, that is, if he
pronounces the prayer of khatm and if those who have read say
Âmîn, the thawâbs of all the âyats read will be given to the
deceased, too. But they will not attain the thawâb promised for a
khatm. One khatm must be read by one person only, and the
thawâb must be presented by him. It will be permissible and very
useful if various people make a khatm of the Qur’ân al-kerîm for
a deceased person each of them reading one section (juz) silently
and sending the thawâb for the section he has read to the deceased
person’s soul or one of them presenting the thawâb for all of them
to the deceased person, that is, (one of them) pronouncing the
prayer of khatm and the others who have read their sections
saying, “Âmîn.” But this will not produce the thawâb for a khatm.
One person must read the khatm or one person must send the
thawâb for the khatm that he made before. So is the case with
reading an âyat of sajda. It is written in Durr-ul muhktâr: “If each
of several people reads one word of an âyat of sajda, it will not be
necessary for those who hear them to perform the sajda of tilâwat.
For, the sajda of tilâwat becomes wâjib for the hearers of an âyat
of sajda when the (entire) âyat is read (or recited) by (the same)
one person.” Words read by various people cannot be brought
together as if one person had read the whole âyat. For, no one can
deputize someone else in reading the Qur’ân al-kerîm.
The author ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ [1] of the book Khulâsat-ul
fatâwâ states: “The Iraqi savants found it unsuitable to read the sûratul
Ikhlâs thrice at the end of the khatm of the Qur’ân al-kerîm.”
[1] Tâhir Bukhârî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’.
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