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XXV.—PUNISHMENT.
Punishment is divided into three classes:—Hadd, Tʾazír, and Qisás.
1. Hadd is that punishment which is said to have been ordained of God in the Qurán and the Hadís, and which must be inflicted. The following belong to this class:—Adultery, for which the adulterer is stoned. Fornication, for which one hundred stripes are inflicted. Drunkenness, for which there are eighty stripes. The slander of a married person, that is, bringing a false charge of adultery against a married person, for which the offender must receive eighty lashes. This punishment is said to have been instituted by God, when ʾA′yesha, the favourite wife of "the Prophet," was falsely charged with adultery! Apostacy, for which the Murtadd, or Apostate, is killed, unless he repent of his error within three days. When an Apostate from Islám has been killed according to the law, or has left the country,
