Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

hundred and ninety-eighth page of the second volume of Hadîqa:
“When either one of the husband and wife becomes a murtadd,
their nikâh becomes void. Their subsequent children will become
walad-i zinâ (illegitimate children). If the husband repents, they
should renew their nikâh. But the wife cannot be forced to renew
the nikâh. If the wife has become a murtadd, she will be forced to
repent and then the nikâh will be renewed. Since there has not
been a divorce, hulla is not necessary.” When a person who has
denied something on which there is no unanimity repents, it is
prudent, that is, good for him to renew his nikâh. When a person
becomes a murtadd, he loses possession of all of his property. All
of it will be taken away from him. If he repents it will be returned
to him. If he dies or goes to the Dâr-ul-harb, it will be given to his
Muslim inheritors. (Dâr-ul-harb is a country where non-Muslim
rules and laws are in effect, such as France and Italy.) What he
earned when he was a murtadd becomes fay and belongs to the
Bayt-ul-mâl (treasury of the Islamic government). Those who
have the right to take jizya are paid from this fay. His earnings in
the Dâr-ul-harb becomes fay to Muslims when he becomes a
prisoner of war [Hindiyya and Qâdikhân]. If he dies there, his
property becomes the property of his inheritors. None of the
worships of a murtadd is acceptable. His nikâh [1] to any woman is
not valid. When they become prisoners of war; they won’t be
made slaves or jâriyyas, but the man will be executed and the
woman will be imprisoned. Animals they slaughter or hunt are
not edible. Their serving as witnesses is not acceptable. They will
not be anyone’s heirs. A murtadd’s earnings in the Dâr-ul-islâm
(an Islamic country), if he earned them after becoming a
murtadd, can not be inherited by anybody. His commercial
agreements in the Dâr-ul-Islâm, according to Imâm-i a’zam, will
be kept pending and if he becomes a Muslim, they will become
nâfiz (valid). If he dies or goes to the Dâr-ul-harb, all of them will
become invalid. According to the Imâmeyn, [2] they become nâfiz
(valid) in the beginning. If a woman’s husband becomes a murtad
she can marry (another man) by the time the (period of time
called) iddat expires.
[1] Please see the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[2] Please see footnote[2] following the eleventh paragraph in the tenth
chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss for ‘Imâmeyn’.
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