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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Laws of Ayatullah Khui Punishment Prescribed For Certain Sins 2794. If a person commits adultery with one of his mehrams who are united by ties of consanguinity like mother and sister he should be killed under the orders of the Religious Head and the same order applies if an unbeliever commits adultery with a Muslim woman.

It has been said in many traditions that awarding one of the religious punishments becomes the cause of people abstaining from unlawful things; it secures their present world and the Hereafter, and it is more beneficial for them than rain falling for forty days. 2795. If a free man commits adultery he should be whipped one hundred times, and if he commits adultery thrice and is whipped one hundred times on each occasion, he should be killed, if he commits adultery for the fourth time.

If a person has a permanent wife or a slave girl, and has had sexual intercourse with her in the state of being adult, sane and free, and on have sexual intercourse with her any time he likes, and in spite of that he commits adultery with a woman, who is adult and sane, he should be stoned to death. 2796. It is well known that if a man sees another man committing adultery with his wife, and has no fear of sustaining harm, he can kill both of them.

However, it appears difficult that this order should be valid. However his wife does not become unlawful for him. 2747. If an adult and sane person commits sodomy with another adult and sane person, both of them should be killed. And the religious Head can kill the person guilty of sodomy with a sword, or bum him alive, or tie his hands and feet and hurl him down from a high place, and under the conditions mentioned in Article 2795 can lapidate him. 2798.

If a person orders someone to kill a person unjustly and if the murderer and the person who orders him are both adult and sane the murderer should be killed and he who ordered him to commit murder should lie imprisoned for life. 2799.

If a child kills his father or mother intentionally, he should be killed, and if a father kills his child intentionally he should pay diyah (blood-money) in accordance with the orders which will be related later and should be beaten as much as the Religious Head may deem fit. 2800. If a person kisses a boy lustfully the Religious Head can whip him thirty to ninety nine times as he deems fit.