Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

ising. Please subject us to si’r, i.e. put limitations to profits,’ he
stated: ‘It is Allâhu ta’âlâ who determines prices. He, alone, makes
the rizq expand or shrink, and (He, alone,) sends it (to us). I ask
for barakat from Allâhu ta’âlâ.’ A hadîth-i-sherîf in the book
entitled Durr-ul-mukhtâr reads as follows: ‘Do not put limitations
to profits! Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, determines prices.’ If all the
tradesmen (in a country) increase their prices to exorbitant levels,
[so that they become as high again,] in tandem, which in turn
means cruelty against the people, then it will be permissible for the
government to consult with the trade guilds and put reasonable
limitations to profits.” [It is wâjib to obey that price policy
followed by the government. Likewise, it is necessary to obey the
laws passed for the perpetration of justice and the protection of the
people’s rights and freedom. The government should be stood by
in the protection it provides and illegal traffickings of property and
tax should be kept away from. Laws should not be disobeyed,
belonging to disbelievers in the Dâr-ul-harb as they may do.]
Ibni ’Âbidîn states as follows in the two hundred and fiftieth
(250) page of the fifth volume: “When a small child’s needs, such
as its food and clothes and the wage of its wet-nurse, are in excess,
it will be permissible for its mother, or for its brother, or for its
paternal uncle, who feeds it in their home, or for the person who,
say, saw the child in the street, took it into his home, and has been
feeding it in his home, to buy that extra amount from the child or
to sell their own property of that sort to the child. Of these people,
only the mother is accredited also to give her small child she has
been feeding in her home out to be employed in return for a wage.
According to Imâm Abû Yûsuf, one of its female or male relatives
termed zî-rahm mahram [1] also is accredited to do so, (i.e. to give it
out to be employed,) in return for an ajr-i-mithl [2] . Khayr-ad-dîn
Ramlî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (993 [1583 A.D.], Ramla – 1081
[1670], the same place,) has preferred that qawl (ijtihâd) in his
fatwâ.
As is stated in the book entitled Durer, also by Ibni ’Âbidîn, in
the chapter dealing with îjâb (offer, proposal) and qabûl
(acceptance) in a sale, and also by ’Alî Haydar Begh, in the
hundred and sixty-seventh (167) and two hundred and sixty-third
(263) and three hundred and sixty-fifth (365) and nine hundred
and seventy-fourth (974) articles of his commentary to the book
[1] See the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[2] Adequate pay.
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