تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.92.2

13.92.2

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