Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

person,) and if both parties produce witnesses, the judge will
endorse the person’s discretion.
If a boy beyond the age of twelve or a girl over nine years old
states the he or she has become pubescent, his or her statement
will be taken to be true. If they do not say so, they will be accepted
to be pubescent by the time they reach beyond the age of fifteen.
Information concerning a child’s walî is available from the twentyninth
chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
Supposing a person in his death-bed appoints someone as his
small child’s wasî concerning the legacy that the child will inherit
from him and so that that person (appointed) will provide the
child’s needs by spending the property he is to leave behind for the
child; the child cannot get his property from that wasî even after
reaching the ages of disretion and puperty unless he proves to be
discreet. The wasî neither has the right to perform a nikâh on the
male child’s behalf, nor can he stay in halwat [1]
with the female
child. People who adopt children must be watchful about this
Islamic rule.
Supposing a person in his death-bed appoints someone as wasî
(executor, guardian) to administer his will or to care for his orphan
child and the latter accepts it; the person appointed cannot
withdraw from his position of wasî after the invalid’s death. The
wasî appointed by the orphan’s father or grandfather or by the
judge will have adopted the orphan as a child only for the purpose
of acquiring power of disposition over the orphan’s (inherited)
property. [When a man adopts a girls as his child, she can not be
his own daughter in the full sense. She will always be nâ-mahram
to him. When she grows up, he will not be allowed to look at her,
with the exception of her hands and face, or touch her. That girl
has to cover herself from that man. The man may marry the girl or
let his son marry her. Her cannot go on a safar, (i.e. a longdistance,)
with her or stay in halwat with her. They cannot inherit
property from each other. So is the case with a boy adopted as a
child by that man. When the boy becomes pubescent, he will be nâmahram
to the man’s wife and daughter. He will be allowed to
marry that girl. If that boy marries a(nother) girl, the girl will not
be the man’s daughter-in-law. She will be a woman nâ-mahram to
[1] Please scan the eighth and the twentieth chapters of the fourth
fascicle, and also the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle, of Endless
Bliss, for ‘halwat’.
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