the fame manner as holds in cafes of Yttikaf * and Ihratn ■ ƒ•; or where a
perfon, by miftake, cohabits with the wife of another,— in which
cafe fhe muft obferve an Edit-, during which, as it is unlawful for the
the hufband to have connexion with his wife, fo it is- likewife unlawful
for him to ufe any of its incentives with her. It is otherwife
during the courfes or faffing, for, although copulation be at fuch time
prohibited, yet dalliance is lawful, becaufe the courfes are frequent
and of long continuance, engroflmg a great part of life,, as they happen
once every month, and continue ten days every time;— and, in
the fame manner, the days o f faffing are protracted to one month by
the divine ordinances, and (among pious perfona) voluntarily occupy
a confiderable part of life;— whence if dalliances were forbidden during
thofe terms, it would tend to reftrain men too much in their enjoyments.
A perfon indulging
in
wantonnefs
with two female
flaves
who are
lifters, muft
put one of
them away
before he can
have connexion
with
the other.
I f a perfon, incited by paffion, fhould kifs two female flaves who
are lifters, 'he is not in that cafe permitted to have carnal connexion
with either of them, or to kifs, touch, or look at the pudenda of
either in luff, until he render one of them unlawful to him, either
by making her the property of another, in whatever manner he may
choofe, or by giving her to another in marriage, or by emancipating
her; becaufe it is not lawful either to copulate or to enter into dalliances
(fuch as killing and hugging) with two filters. But whenever
one of them is rendered unlawful, the enjoyment of the other is permitted
to him.— (T h e transfer of a part of the Have, in this.inftance,
* Yttikaf is a religious aufterity pra&ifed by the mod pious o f the Muffulmans in the laft
ten days o f the month o f Ramzan; they remain during that period in a mofque, without
ever departing from it but when the calls o f nature abfolutely force them, abftra&ing them-
felves a t the fame time from all enjoyments.
f Ihram is the period during which the pilgrims remain at Mecca.— T h e y are then fub-
je & to a number o f ftridb regulations, and are particularly enjoined to refrain from all
worldly pleafures.
IS
is the fame as a transfer of the whole, with refpedf to the illegality
of enjoyment * ; and fo likewife the emancipating her, or rendering
her a Mokdtibd in part.) If, on the contrary, he let one of them to
hire, or pawn her, or create her a Modttbbirh, the other is not thereby
made lawful to him, as he does not by any of thefe a£ts relinquifh his
property in her. If, alfo, he fhould give one of them in marriage to
any perfon by an invalid contract, he does not thereby acquire a right
to enjoy the other; unlefs, however, the hufband o f that one con-
fummate the marriage, in which cafe an Edit is incumbent upon her,
and this is the fame as a valid marriage,- with .regard to rendering the
enjoyment of her illegal. If, alfo, he once carnally enjoy one of them,
he may afterwards continue to do fo ;— but he cannot then lawfully
have connexion with the other; for i f fo, it would be a connexion
with two lifters, which is unlawful; but this confequence is not induced
by connexion with one of them.
A ny two women who are related to each other in a degree that
prevents their, being lawfully married to the fame perfon, are con-
fidered as lifters, and are confequently fubjeft to the rules exhibited
in the preceding cafe.
It is abominable for one man to kifs another either in the face or Men muft not
hand, or on any other part; as it is likewife for two men to embrace j^hotTerT^
each other. Yahavee reports that this is the opinion of Haneefa and
Mohammed; but that Aboo Yoofaf\xo\As it not improper for a man either
to kifs or embrace another; becaufe it is related that when Jaffier
came from AbyJJinia the prophet embraced him and killed him between
the eyes. T h e argument advanced by Haneefa and Mohammed is a
tradition that the prophet prohibited both killing and embracing; and
* T h a t is to fay, he will as completely render one o f the filters illegal (or forbidden) to
him (and confequently legalize his connexion with the other) by felling o r otherwife tranf-
ferring his property in a part o f her, as by fo transferring her in tots.
with