Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s1.59

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¹ Compare for the object of protecting *Na-mahrams* from one another, the following. Muhammad Tughluq was very scrupulous when he entered his *haram* that his eye did not fall on a ‘Na-mahram’ (B. 506). Compare A., 393-4 that the slave-girls of Tatar Khan, a noble of Sultan Firuz Tughluq, were carried in closed and locked conveyances lest the eye of a *Na-mahram* fell on them’. Compare Z.M., 69 how Saint Hamadani fears the places where people of both sexes can meet together. Compare M.A., 195 for an advice of Amir Khusrau who argues as follows. If a woman does not want to expose herself to the criticism of people she had better abstain from the company of a *Na-mahram*. If she wanted to be perfectly free from any suspicion or criticism, she had better observe *Pardah*. In another place, he concludes that female chastity can only exist with a total absence of relations with the outer world. (*Vide* I.K., II, 317). Compare the remarks of Barbosa on the jealousy of Muslim husbands, Vol. I, 121.