Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

perform i’tikâf if my invalid relative recovers.” And it would be a
nazr (vow) to say, “I will perform i’tikâf for ... days for the grace of
Allâhu ta’âlâ if my invalid relative recovers.”
10– Muzâra’a (share cropping): To say, “Farm my land (as a
share cropper) if you also lend me some money.”
11– Musâqât: To say, for instance, “I will put my trees or vines
to your care so that you water and tend them for a share from the
produce, on condition that you lend me money.” Musâqât means
to consign your trees or vines to someone’s care so that he will
look after them in return for a share from the crops.
12– Iqrâr (confession, acknowledgement): To avow that you
owe a person (some money or property) by asking money from
him.
13– Waqf: To say, for instance, “I will devote my house as a
waqf if the person I am awaiting, (e.g. my son, brother, etc.)
arrives.”
14– Tahkîm (appointing an arbitrator or judge): To say, for
instance, “Arbitrate between us if ... comes true.”
There are twenty-eight things that are permissible to do
although conditions have been stipulated, and yet the conditions
stipulated must not be fulfilled:
1– Qardh (loan): You (can) give a loan on condition that you
will be served (by the debtor) for some time, but the condition
stipulated must not be carried out.
2– Hiba (gift-giving, donation): It is permissible to say, “I will
give you this animal as a present on the proviso that its young will
be mine.” In that case the young also will be a present.
3– Sadaqa (almsgiving): To say, “I will give you alms on the
condition that you will serve me for a while.”
4– Nikâh (marriage contract prescribed by Islam): It is sahîh
(valid) to perform a nikâh made conditional on that the mahr will
not be paid. The mahr-i-mithl will be paid in that case.
5– Talâq (divorce, dissolution of nikâh): To say, “I have
Allâhu ta’âlâ, reading Islamic books such as those telling about the
life of our Prophet and those of the Awliyâ, and doing whatsoever
will be useful for other people, e.g. preaching. It is forbidden to spend
time only sitting, doing nothing, thinking of nothing, or talking
nonsense.
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