Choose suitable containers for your sperms...
Choose suitable containers for your sperms, for women give birth to the like of their brothers and sisters. تَخَيَّرُوْا لِنُطَفِكُمْ؛ فَانْكِحُوا الأكْفَاءَ؛ وَانْكِحُوْا اِليهِمْ. Choose suitable containers for your sperms, marry women (and give your daughters in marriage to men) of equal status to yours. اِلْتَمِسُوا الْجَارَ قَبْلَ شِرَى الدَّارِ؛ وَالرَّفِيْقَ قَبْلَ الطَّرِيْقِ. Choose your neighbor before buying a house, and find a friend before taking a trip.
الجارُ قَبْلَ الدَّارِ وَالرَّفِيْقُ قَبْلَ الطَّرِيْقِ؛ وَالزَّادُ قَبْلَ الرَّحِيْلِ. Choose your neighbor before buying a house, your companion before selecting a way, and your provision before setting out on a trip. النَّاكِحُ في قَوْمِهِ كَالْمُعْشِبِ في دَارِهِ. Choosing a bride from one's own family is like growing grass in one's own house.
اِغْسِلُوا ثِيَابَكُمْ وَخُذُوا مِنْ شُعُورِكُمْ؛ وَاسْتَاكُوا؛ وَتَزَيَّنُوا وَتَنَظَّفُوا؛ فَاِنَّ بَني اِسْرائِيْلَ لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَفْعَلُونَ ذلِك فَزَنَتْ نِسَاؤُهُمْ. Clean your clothes, beautify your hair, brush your teeth and be all made up and tidy, for the children of Israel didn't do so and their wives turned out to be adulterous. طَيِّبُوْا أفْواهَكُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ. Clean your mouths by brushing. تَنَزَّهُوْا مِنَ الْبَوْلِ؛ فَاِنَّ عَامَّةَ عَذابِ القَبْرِ مِنْهُ.
Clean yourself of urine, for it's the cause of most punishments in the grave. النَّظَافَةُ مِنَ الإيْمَانِ. Cleanliness has root in faith. طَهُوْرُ الطَّعَامِ يَزِيْدُ فِي الطَّعَامِ وَالدِّيْنِ وَالرِّزْقِ. Cleanness of food (lawfully- earned food) results in an increase of food, faith, and sustenance. الجَنَّةُ أقْرَبُ إلى أحَدِكُمْ مِنْ شِراكِ نَعْلِهِ؛ وَالنَّارُ مِثْلُ ذلكَ. Closer to you than your shoelaces is Paradise, and Hell is likewise.
غَيِّرُوْا الشَّيْبَ وَلا تَشَبَّهُوْا بِاليَهُوْدِ. Color your white hair and stop looking like the Jews. خَلِّلُوْا لِحَاكُمْ وَقُصُّوا أظْفَارَكُمْ، فَاِنَّ الشَّيْطانَ يَجْرِي ما بَيْنَ اللَّحْمِ وَالظُّفْرِ. Comb your beard and pare your nails, for satans (microbes) move between flesh and nails. أَقِلَّ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ يَهُنْ عَلَيْكَ الْمَوْتُ. Commit less vice, an easier death to face.
لَأَنْ يَزْنِيَ الرَّجُلُ بِعَشَرَةِ نِسْوَةٍ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أنْ يَزْنِيَ بِامْرَأَةِ جَارِهِ، وَلَأَنْ يَسْرِقَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ عَشَرَةِ أبْيَاتٍ أيْسَرُ لَهُ مِنْ أنْ يَسْرِقَ مِنْ بَيْتِ جَارِهِ. Committing adultery with ten women is less sinful than doing so with a neighbor's wife, and stealing from ten houses is easier (i.e.
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