Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fourth Fascicle

another Madhhab which affords a solution without haraj; this fact
is written in many books, e.g. in the fifty-first and the two hundred
and fifty-sixth pages of the first volume and the five hundred and
forty-second page of the second volume and in the one hundred
ninetieth page of the third volume of Ibni ’Âbidîn, and in the
eighteenth page of Mîzan, as well as in the final pages of the books
Hadîqa and Berîqa and in Fatâwâ-i hadîthiyya and in the final
pages of the section “Adab-ul-Qâdî” of Fatâwâ-i Hayriyya, in the
22nd letter of the third volume of Maktûbât of Imâm-i Rabbânî [1] .
It is also written in Ma’fuwwât and in its explanation by Mollâ
Khalîl Si’ridîs ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, a Shâfi’î scholar, and in
its annotation. If the person who intends to imitate (another
Madhhab) performed the present time’s namâz before intending
to imitate, the namâz will be sahîh (valid). But he will have to
perform again his previous prayers of namâz which he performed
before that. Tahtâwî writes as follows in the ninety-sixth page of
his explanation of Marâqil-falâh and also in its Turkish version
Ni’mat-i Islâm: “There is no harm in a Hanafî’s imitating the
Shâfi’î Madhhab for doing something which he cannot do in his
own Madhhab. The same is written in the books Bahrurrâiq and
Nahrulfâiq. But to do this he has to fulfill the conditions of the
Shâfi’î Madhhab, too. If he imitates without haraj and does not
observe the conditions he will be called a Mulaffiq, that is, one
who looks for and gathers facilities. This is not permissible. A
travelling person’s performing late afternoon (’Asr) prayer
together with the early afternoon (Zuhr) prayer and night (Ishâ)
prayer together with evening (Maghrib) prayer by imitating the
Shâfi’î Madhhab requires that he will recite the Fâtiha (sûra)
when he performs these behind an imâm (in jamâ’at), and that he
will perform an ablution again if his palm touches his own
Saw’atayn, that is, his two most private parts, or if his skin touches
a woman’s skin, except the eighteen women who are eternally
harâm (forbidden) for him to marry. And he must intend for an
ablution and avoid even a little najâsat.” It is also permissible for
him to imitate the Mâlikî Madhhab.
For imitating the Mâlikî or Shâfi’î Madhhab, it will suffice to
remember that you are following the Mâlikî or Shâfi’î Madhhab
when performing a ghusl or an ablution and when intending to
perform namâz. In other words, the ghusl of such a person will be
acceptable if, at the beginning, he passes this thought through his
[1] See the 34 th chapter of Endless Bliss I.
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