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without a guardian-the ready guardianship of a capable man, and the shelter and nourishment that have become inadequate1 are as indispensably forthcoming from the possessors of wealth, of those who have taken the property, as that taking was indispensable 3.
6. If there be no son of that man, but there be a daughter or wife of his, and if some of the affairs of the man are such as render a woman not suitable for the guardianship, it is necessary to appoint a family guardian; if there be, moreover, no wife or daughter of his it is necessary to appoint an adopted son. 7. This that is, when it is necessary to appoint a family guardian and who is the fittest, and when it is necessary to appoint an adopted son and which is the fittest-is written in the chapters on the question ".
CHAPTER LXIII.
1. The sixty-second question is that which you ask thus: Would they authorisedly carry off any property whatever from foreigners and infidels, or not?
2. The reply is this, that wealth and property and anything that foreigners (an-afrâno) possess and is carried off by them from the good with violence, and which through obstinacy they do not give back
'Literally 'not issuing.'
8 M14 has are thus forthcoming?
M14 has or have become indispensable to it.'
Or, it may be 'dependents;' the text is merely va hato min zak-f gabrâ.
See Chaps. LVI-LIX.
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