Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

more of their property in the event of their death, but on those
who are closer to them and who are a part from them. Parents who
have grandsons and granddaughters from their son will be
supported by their (own) daughter(s). However, their inheritance
would be divided in half between their daughter(s) and
grandchild(ren). If a person has grandchildren from his or her
daughter and brother(s), he or she will be supported by their
children, whereas all their property would be inherited by their
brother(s), and nothing would be left for their daughter(s)’s
children. The author of the book Hazânat-ur-riwâyât, (Qâdî Hindî
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’,) states: “When a person gets stuck in
the horns of a dilemma wherein pleasing one of the parents would
displease the other, the father should be the one respected and
obeyed as the mother is being served and supported. It is
permissible for the father to become angry with his son and to
shout at him. If a father senses that his son will fail to obey an
order he is to give his son, he should avoid imperatives and prefer
counselling moods as he talks with his son to protect him against
the sin of disobeying his father.” The author ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’ of Fatâwâ-i-Khayriyya states: “If a poor person earns only a
bare pittance, it will not be farz for him to pay nafaqa to his poor
father. He might opt to admit his poor parents into his home, so
that they will live together. It is harâm for a man to beat his wife,
to oppress her, to dock from her nafaqa, or move to another city
and settle there without taking her along. It is a grave sin. On the
Day of Judgement, a man guilty of such behaviour will be
subjected to a harsh and difficult judgment and extremely bitter
torment. He must be punished with ta’zîr by the court of law. If he
does not pay one of the three kinds of nafaqa though he is capable
of doing so, he will be sent to prison.”
4– If a boy that has not reached ages of discretion and puberty
yet or an unmarried or widowed girl, regardless of her age, or an
invalid or blind man is poor and does not have a father, paying
their nafaqa in proportion to the property that would be inherited
devolves on their rich (next of kin termed) zî rahm-i-mahram,
(defined in the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss,
under the heading WOMEN WITH WHOM NIKÂH IS NOT
PERMISSIBLE. Please see the last paragraph of the hundred and
fifty-seventh (157) page of the tenth [2007] edition of the fifth
fascicle. In other words, it becomes farz for them to pay their
nafaqa.) However, it is written in Fatâwâ-i-Khayriyya that for its
becoming farz a suit must have been brought to the court of law.
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