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so that he relinquishes the religion. 6. For after that, while he is in the religion, and while his children, after him, are in the religion', every duty and good work that he does—and his children-is just like those which are done by thine own hand.
7. And it is just like that with regard to poll-tax, it is also indispensable to give it in semblance of help, so that they may give that person his release (halâ:), and he may stay in his own place, and the advantage of a good work (Thavâb) may come to that other person.
CHAPTER LXI. 1. The sixty-first subject is this, that it is requisite to abstain strictly from speaking falsehood; so that, every time that mankind indulge in the speaking of falsehood with fondness?, it is not proper to do so; and falsehood is the chief 4 of all sins.
2. Zaratust enquired of Hôrmazd thus: 'Who is a liar like?' 3. Hôrmazd, the good and propitious, said: *A liar is a co-operator with Aharman.'
4. In revelation it says that there is no hereafter (â'hirat) for the speakers of falsehood, and in the midst of mankind they are contemptible ('haqir). 5. If such a man be powerful (mu'htasim), and there be no avoiding (hadhar) him in the vicinity
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* B29 omits these ten words. | Lp omits these fourteen words. * B29 omits these twenty words.
• This seems to have been the meaning intended, judging from $$ 2-6; otherwise it might be translated end' or 'result,' especially as the writer has characterised other sins as the chief' (see Chaps. IX, 2, XXV, 8).
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