Ethics of Islam by Huseyin Hilmi Isik - HTML preview

FOOTNOTES (40-45)

[40] Please see the twenty-first chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss for detailed information; and how to make qadâ of omitted prayers of salât is explained at length in the twenty-third chapter of the fourth fascicle.

[41] Hîla-i-shar’iyya is a method taught by Islamic scholars and which a Muslim can utilize in case of a quandary, e.g. to save himself from a difficult situation rendering it impossible for him to perform a religious duty or to avoid a religious prohibition. It is explained in detail in the three hundred and first, eight hundred and forty-fourth, and eight hundred and fifty-ninth pages of the Turkish book Se’âdet-i-ebediyye.

[42] Muhammad ’Uthmân passed away in 1314 hijrî [1896 A.D.]

[43] Claudius Galen [130-200 A.D.], Greek physician and physiologist.

[44] The first chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss is allotted to the subject of ‘zakât’.

[45] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366th and 367th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40th and the 59th letters in the first volume of Maktûbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 25th and the 28th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).