those who held such Fidya view -which All?h ( - عز وجل -) has never allowed- to play tricks in the Shar‘! They invented for people a trick by which people could save their deceased from sin!! They avoided a sin but fell in another. Their trick is as follows: the heirs invite some poor people to a banquet. Then they gather the jewelry the deceased female relatives have. The jewelry is wrapped in a piece of a cloth and handed to one of the poors closest to the deceased’s guardian’s seat. The guardian says: ‘Do you accept this fortune as a replacement for what the deceased missed of Sal?t and other Shar‘ rights?’ The poor then says: ‘I do’, taking hold of the cloth and hence the grant is executed. Few minutes later, the poor returns the cloth with its contents to the guardian of the deceased’s heirs and says: ‘I grant you this cloth with all its contents’. And then the same thing happens with all the poor round the banquet. Doing so, the deceased heirs believe that their deceased is free from all the rights he missed. At the end of this gathering, the poor are given some money that hardly equals tenth of that which is in the cloth, then the gathering ends believing that the deceased’s soul was saved from the torture of abandoning Sal?t!!

The aforementioned way -which is stated in some Fiqh compilations and which the aforementioned had?th states- is practiced by some ignorants who believe in its legality due to being recorded and approved in some Fiqh books some of which are: “Al-H?shiyah” (vol. 2 / p. 73) by Ibn ‘Abd?n, “H?shiyah ‘Alad Durril Mukht?r” (vol. 1 / p. 308) by At-Tah?w? and “I‘?natut T?lib?n” (vol. 1 / p. 24) by Ad-Dimy?t?.

Be ware, dear muslim, of performing such trick and praise your Rabb for saving you from practicing it for indeed execution is the only punishment for those who abandon Sal?t as the ‘Ulamah stated. Does giving few grammes of wheat or giving out some money in charity redeem one’s great sin and save him from Hell-Fire!! And for more sin this is done by a trick that is full of irony. All?h ( - عز وجل -) said: ‘And never mock with All?h’s ( - عز وجل -) ? y?t’ and ‘Verily, the hypocrites [try to] beguile All?h ( - عز وجل -) but He is the One who beguiles them’.