on you to offer a feast, once in every
month #57
83. If ye should hunt with beasts or birds of prey, invoke ye the Name
of God when ye send them to pursue their quarry; for then whatever they
catch shall be lawful unto you, even should ye find it to have died.
#60
84. hunt not to excess #60
85. He hath granted them no right to the property of others. #61
86. Should anyone intentionally destroy a house by fire, him also shall
ye burn; should anyone deliberately take another's life, him also shall
ye put to death. #62
87. Should ye condemn the arsonist and the murderer to life
imprisonment, it would be permissible according to the provisions of
the Book. #62
88. God hath prescribed matrimony unto you. #63
89. Beware that ye take not unto yourselves more wives than two. Whoso
contenteth himself with a single partner from among the maidservants of
God, both he and she shall live in tranquillity. #63
90. he who would take into his service a maid may do so with propriety
#63
91. This is My bidding unto you; hold fast to it as an assistance to
yourselves. #63
92. We have conditioned it ... upon the permission of their parents #65
93. No marriage may be contracted without payment of a dowry #66
94. for city-dwellers at nineteen mithqals of pure gold, and for
village-dwellers at the same amount in silver #66
95. Whoso wisheth to increase this sum, it is forbidden him to exceed
the limit of ninety-five mithqals... If he content himself, however,
with a payment of the lowest level, it shall be better for him
according to the Book.
96. should any one of His servants intend to travel, he must fix for
his wife a time when he will return home #67
97. it behoveth her to wait for a period of nine months, after which
there is no impediment to her taking another husband #67
98. she should choose the course that is praiseworthy #67
99. two just witnesses #67
100. Should resentment or antipathy arise between husband and wife, he
is not to divorce her but to bide in patience throughout the course of
one whole year #68
101. The Lord hath prohibited ... the practice to which ye formerly had
recourse when thrice ye had divorced a woman. #68
102. He who hath divorced his wife may choose, upon the passing of each
month, to remarry her when there is mutual affection and consent, so
long as she hath not taken anothe