Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 460
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 460 UNDATED Naming an Adopted Child as One’s Own is Forbidden There was mention of someone that they did not have children and they had named someone’s son as their own and had made the child the heir of their property. The Promised Messiah as said: This action is forbidden according to the Shariah. According to the Islamic Shariah, it is completely forbidden to name some- one else’s son as your own. The Sick and the Traveller are Not to Fast There was a discussion regarding the fasting of the sick and the travel- ler. Hadrat Maulaw i Noor-ud-Deen ra said, ‘Sheikh Ibn Arabi has stated that if a person who is sick or is a travelling observes a Fast during the days of Ramadan, it is still obligatory for him to fast upon regaining health after the month of Ramadan as God Almighty has said: 1 ْنَمَف َناَك ْمُكْنِم اًضْيِرَّم ْوَا ىٰلَع ٍرَفَس ٌةَّدِعَف ْنِّم ٍماَّيَا َرَخُا ْنَمَف َناَك ْمُكْنِم اًضْيِرَّم ْوَا ىٰلَع ٍرَفَس ٌةَّدِعَف ْنِّم ٍماَّيَا َرَخُا One who is sick from among you or is on a journey, they are to fast in the days after the month of Ramadan. God Almighty has not said here that a person who is sick or is travelling and who fasts in these days out of stubbornness or to fulfil his heart’s desire, he does not need to fast afterwards. This is the clear directive of God Almighty that he should keep the Fasts afterwards as they are obligatory on him in any case. If he observe the Fasts during [Ramadan], that is something extra and is the 1. S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:185 [Publisher]