Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

innuendo will be punished with ta’zîr. A person who swears (at
another) by allusion will not be punished with ta’zîr. A person who
seduces someone else’s wife and then marries her by making nikâh
will be imprisoned, being kept in confinement until he divorces her
or, otherwise, until he dies. Ta’zîr will be inflicted on a person who
makes a show of wara’ and taqwâ.
Guilts of ta’zîr wherein human rights are involved are, like
guilts of hadd, unpardonable.
It is stated in the nineteenth article of Majalla: “It is not
permissible to harm someone or to give others harm in return for
the harm they have given you.” Acts that are mubâh will not be
permissible if they should be harmful to others. A person whose
property has been stolen will not gain the right of stealing the
thief’s or other people’s property. It is the judge’s duty to get
damages compensated for in a manner compatible with Islamic
rules. A damage canot be compensated for by inflicting an equal
or greater damage.
It is stated in Bahr-ul-fatâwâ: “A Muslim who sells alcoholic
beverages will be punished severely with ta’zîr. A person who hugs
a woman walking on the street and kisses her will be punished with
ta’zîr. A punishment of hadd will be executed after the culprit is
made to stand, clad in underwears only, and by inflicting flogging.
If a woman whose husband is dead marries another man before
the end of the period called iddat, [1]
the man who marries her
knowingly of it will be punished severely with ta’zîr. If a person
marries a woman whose husband is somewhere far away, he will be
punished with ta’zîr, and they will be separated. A woman who
goes around in a man’s guise and a man who goes around in a
woman’s guise will be punished with ta’zîr, and they will be sent to
prison, to stay there until they make tawba. The same rule applies
to singers and to people who play musical instruments. A person
who takes someone else’s wife to his own home by using force will
be punished vehemently with ta’zîr, and the woman will be
delivered back to her husband. A prostitute cannot be evicted
from her house or ousted from the street where she lives by her
neighbours. The judge will have her chastised with ta’zîr, which
will be inflicted either by beating her or imprisonment.
A person who practises sorcery or incantation will be punished
with ta’zîr. Ibni ’Âbidîn ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ states as
[1] Please see the final part of the fifteenth chapter for ’iddat.
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