Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

obey both Islam and the laws in force in his country. If a Muslim
becomes a murtadd and goes to the Dâr-ul-harb, his property will
pass on to his inheritors’ possession. It will not become property of
the Beyt-ul-mâl. A dhimmî who says that he has become a Muslim
will be admitted as a Muslim. A disbeliever will not become a
Muslim only by having himself circumcised. A dhimmî who buys a
Muslim jâriya will be punished vehemently with ta’zîr. He will be
ordered to sell the jâriya to a Muslim. A dhimmî who has bought
a house within the Muslims’ quarter will be ordered to sell it to a
Muslim. A Muslim who has rented out his house in the vicinity of
a mosque to a dhimmî will be ordered to evacuate the house and
rent it out to Muslims who perform (their daily prayers of) namâz.
It is permissible for a dhimmî to buy a slave who also is a
disbeliever. If the slave becomes a Muslim, then the dhimmî will
have to sell the slave to a Muslim. If a dhimmî fornicates with a
Muslim woman, he will be flogged with a hundred stripes and sent
to prison, being kept in confinement for a long time. If the woman
is muhsan (married) she will be punished with rajm (stoning to
that). If not, she will be flogged. A person who fornicates with his
daughter-in-law will be punished with rajm.”
A person who utters fuhsh (indecent or obscene words) will be
punished with ta’zîr. For, it is an act of makrûh tahrîmî to utter
fuhsh. It is stated in the eleventh of the ruinations incurred by way
of speech: ‘Fuhsh’ means ‘indecent or obscene speech’. Anything
that exceeds its (dictated) limit is called ‘fâhish (excessive,
exorbitant)’. In this context, it means to tell someone else about
indecent acts by using an overt language. An example of this is
usage of a vulgar language when you have to talk about conjugal
relations, relieving nature, etc. It is fuhsh, and so it is an act of
makrûh tahrîmî, to express these events by uttering their vulgar
versions. For, doing so is incompatible with muruwwat and
diyânat; it will divest a person of virtues such as shame and
bashfulness that are inherent in his nature and, to the bargain, it
will hurt others. Muruwwat means ‘human virtues’, ‘manliness’.
When it is necessary to talk about conjugal relations or other
bodily functions such as relieving nature, kinâya should be
preferred to frankness. Kinâya means to use indirect, euphemistic
remarks instead of an open, direct language. For instance, Allâhu
ta’âlâ has said the word ‘lems’, which means ‘touch’, instead of the
word jimâ’ (coitus), in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. A hadîth-i-sherîf
quoted by Ibni Abi-d-dunyâ and Abû Nu’aym ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaihimâ’ reads: “It is harâm for people who utter fuhsh to enter
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