Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

for a job where she can work without having to mix with men or
by covering herself properly. And as soon as she finds one she
must change over to that new job. As she walks or commutes to
and from work, she must always cover her head and arms. When
she marries a Muslim man, her husband will have to provide her
nafaqa. Although she will not have to pay nafaqa to her parents
and children since she is not rich, she ought to support them by
working with her husband’s permission. Learning the teachings
that are farz to learn is like earning one’s nafaqa.]
5– It is farz for an owner of slaves and jâriyas to pay their
nafaqa. If the owner does not pay the slave’s nafaqa, the slave will
work and use his earnings as nafaqa for himself. If a slave or a
jâriya is too frail to work the judge of law court will order their
owner to sell them.
Ibni ’Âbidîn states as follows in the two hundred and twentythird
(223) page of the fifth volume:
“It is farz to dress oneself (at least) as well and properly as to
cover one’s awrat parts and to protect oneself against cold and
heat. (Please see the eighth chapter of the fourth fascicle of
Endless Bliss for ‘awrat parts’.) Textiles made from cotton, linen,
and wool are good. It is sunnat for men to wear a qamîs, i.e. a
chemise, a kind of long shirt, and an overcoat long enough to cover
half of their legs and with sleeves long enough to extend to the
fingertips. The sleeve openings should be a span wide. We should
be dressed moderately and avoid things that cause fame. It is an
act of mustahab, (i.e. something that brings thawâb and causes one
to be rewarded in the Hereafter,) to wear good and valuable
clothes to exhibit the blessings of Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is an act of
mubâh, (i.e. an act that is neither commanded nor forbidden;
something permitted by Allâhu ta’âlâ,) to wear lovely,
ornamented clothes on special days such as ’Iyd days. It is not
something good, however, to always do so. It is an act of makrûh [1]
to dress oneself up for ostentation and for boasting of oneself. It is
an act of mustahab to wear black and white. Rasûlullah’s coat,
shirt, and pants were of white cotton cloth. [It is written in the four
[1] An act, behaviour, or thought that our blessed Prophet disliked,
avoided, and dissuaded from is called ‘makrûh’. When an act of
makrûh verges on an act of harâm it is termed ‘makrûh tahrîmî’.
When it is closer to an act of mubâh, it is termed ‘makrûh tanzîhî (or
tenzîhî)’. When we see only the term ‘makrûh, we should construe it
as ‘makrûh tahrîmî’.
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