Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

who in his turn gives them back to the person he has borrowed
them from. If the guardian has gold coins, the dawrs are performed
with as many gold coins as the number of years during which the
deceased person did not perform namâz. When the number 60 is
divided by the number of the poor people sitting for the dawr, the
result is the number of dawrs to be performed. If the gold coins are
several times fewer than the number of years of debt of namâz, the
number of dawrs should be as many more. According to the
example given above, if you have 48 gold coins, you will make 60
dawrs with one poor person, 15 dawrs with four poor people, and
6 dawrs with ten poor people. If the number of gold coins is 10, the
number of years will be supposed to be 50 instead of 48 and 75
dawrs will be performed with four poor people. If the poor people
are ten, 30 dawrs will be performed.
After the isqât for the namâz is finished, for the isqât of the
forty-eight years’ fasts omitted, that is, for the ones that must be
made qadâ of, he (the walî or the inheritor or his deputy) makes
three dawrs with five gold coins and four poor people. For, the
isqât for the kaffârat of a year’s (thirty days’) fasting requires fiftytwo-and-a-half
kilograms of wheat, or 5.25 grams of gold, i.e. 0.73
gold coins. Hence, in the Hanafî Madhhab one gold coin absolves
the kaffârat of a year’s fasting; and hence, it is necessary to give
forty-eight gold coins for forty-eight years. Completing one dawr
with five gold coins and four poor people means having given
twenty gold coins. After the performance of the isqât of the fasts
requiring qadâ, a few dawrs must be done first for zakât and then
for the qurbân, then for the sadaqa-i-fitr and then for nazr and
then for rights of other people, (i.e. debts possibly owed to other
people,) whose inheritors are not known.
In the Madhhabs of Mâlikî and Shâfi’î, the report saying that
fidya is made for the (omitted) namâz is observed by giving the
fidya for five prayers of namâz for each day, since the namâz called
Witr is a sunna. It is written in (the books) al-Anwâr and Naf’ulanâm
that according to these two Madhhabs one mud’ of wheat is
to be given as the fidya of one prayer of namâz and one fasting.
Since one mud’ is 173.3 dirhams, the fidya for a day’s five prayers
of namâz is 2.1 kilograms of wheat, which makes 63 kilograms of
wheat, or 0.875 gold coins, for a month, and 705 kgr. of wheat, or
10.5 gold coins, for a year, while the fidya for a month’s fast is 5.2
kilograms of wheat or 0.07 pieces of gold coins. For imitating the
Hanafî Madhhab, people who are in one of the Madhhabs of
Mâlikî and Shâfi’î should calculate the fidya for a month’s prayers
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