Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

allowed into his flat unless he defrays the expenditure if the other
person has made the repair by the court’s verdict, and unless he
pays the value if the other person has made the repair on his own.”
“The owner of the upper storey may build another storey on top
of his own, unless he does not cause damage to the lower storey.”
It is stated as follows in the book entitled Hadîqa, in its section
dealing with the disastrous retributions incurred with hands: “It is
called ghasb to extort a person’s property by force or without that
person’s permission. Not only is ghasb harâm in itself, but also it is
harâm to use property obtained by way of ghasb. It is harâm to
take and use someone else’s property without permission, even if
you return the property intact. If someone trusts you with their
property or money for safekeeping, or if you extort someone’s
property or money, it is not permissible for you to make profit
from it by investing it in trade or elsewhere. An earning made
thereby is harâm. You have to give it as alms to the poor. It is also
harâm to take and hide someone else’s property or money as a
joke. For, a joke of that kind will cause a person to suffer grief.
And it is harâm to torment a person.”
It is stated in the book entitled Fatâwâ-i-Fayziyya [1] : If a father
spends his small children’s money buying things for himself
although he is not in need, the children, when they reach puberty,
may ask him to compensate for it. It would be permissible for him
to spend it buying things for himself (without having to
compensate for it) if he were in need.”
[1] It was written by Feyzullah Efendi of Erzurum ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’, (martyred in Edirne in 1115 [1703 A.D.],) the forty-sixth
Ottoman Shaikhulislâm. He also translated Mawlânâ Khâlid
Baghdâdî’s book entitled I’tiqadnâma into Turkish and entitled it
Îmân ve Islâm, which was published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi in Istanbul
a number of times. Its English version, Belief and Islam, is available
from Hakîkat Kitâbevi.
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