تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.92.2

13.92.2

ولما تزوجتها أكرهني الوزير على القضاء وسبب ذلك اعتراضي على القاضي لكونه يأخذ العشر من التركات إذا قسمها على أربابها، فقلت له: إنما لك أجرة تتفق بها مع الورثة، ولم يكن يحسن شيئا، فلما وليت اجتهدت جهدي في إقامة رسوم الشرع، وليست هنالك خصومات كما هي ببلادنا! فأول ما غيرت من عوائد السوء مكث المطلقات في ديار المطلقين، وكانت إحداهن لا تزال في دار المطلق حتى تتزوج غيره، فحسمت علة ذلك، وأوتى إلي بنحو خمسة وعشرين رجلا ممن فعل ذلك فضربتهم وشهرتهم بالأسواق وأخرجت النساء عنهن ثم اشتددت في إقامة الصلوات وأمرت الرجال بالمبادرة إلى الأزقة والأسواق إثر

When I had married her, the vizier compelled me to take the office of qāḍī. The reason for this was my objection to the qāḍī's taking a tenth of estates when he divided them among their heirs. I said to him, 'You are entitled only to a fee agreed upon with the heirs.' He was not competent in anything. When I took office I strove my utmost to establish the rules of the sharīʿa; there are no lawsuits there as there are in our country! The first bad custom I changed was that divorced women stayed in the houses of the men who had divorced them; such a woman would remain in her former husband's house until she married another. I cut off the cause of this; about twenty-five men who had done so were brought to me, and I had them beaten and paraded through the markets, and removed the women from them. Then I was strict in enforcing the prayers, and ordered men to go at once through the lanes and markets after