Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

interpenetrative. In ta’zîr, if the person guilty of swearing at
another denies his guilt, the oath he takes will be accepted and he
will be pardoned.
In some guilts that incur ta’zîr, such as kissing a nâ-mahram
woman and being present at places where sins are being
committed, the ta’zîr to be inflicted will not be pardoned and the
oath taken (by the guilty person) will not be accepted, since guilts
of that sort involve only rights of Allah. The guilty person can be
pardoned only by the president of the State.
If a person steady with his (daily prayers of) namâz is hurting
other people with his speech and with his hands, it is permissible to
inform the State about him so that he should be chastised. In cases
of ta’zîr that involve only rights of Allah, the judge will inflict ta’zîr
if at least one ’âdil person informs. For, the judge’s own
information will suffice for him to decide about the punishment.
Informing may be done by writing.
A person who buys alcoholic drinks and drinks them or who
does not perform his daily prayers of namâz will be imprisoned,
beaten, and then released. A person who is accused of homicide,
theft, or battery will be kept in prison until signs of tawba are
observed in his behaviour. For, people of this sort are harmful to
others, whereas people in the former example give harm only to
themselves. A Muslim who swears at a dhimmî will be punished
with ta’zîr. It is a sinful act to swear at a dhimmî. It sinful to accost
a Jew or a Christian by addressing them as ‘disbelievers’. They do
not deem themselves as disbelievers. So they become hurt when
they are called so.
It is necessary, and profuse in yielding thawâb, for a woman to
to wear all the ornamental attirements and articles she has and to
apply odorous perfumes to beautify herself for her husband,
provided the articles and perfumes being used be lawful. Hadîth-isherîfs
stating this are quoted in the four hundred and sixty-fifth
(465) page of the commentary to Shir’at-ul-islâm. If she does not
bedeck herself properly or neglects her (ablutions termed) ghusl
or goes out without her husband’s permission and without any
rightful reason or refuses to go to bed with her husband or beats
her baby when it cries, her husband will admonish her. If she
ignores his admonitions or swears at her husband or shows her
face to men nâ-mahram to her or gives to others without her
husband’s permission things that are not customarily given (to
others without husband’s permission), or if she commits another
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