Because of the Muslim's belief in accountability in the hereafter, his oath is valid evidence in any judicial or extra-judicial process.Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good—To parents, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers; the companion by your side, the way-farer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious;—"Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he intended. To the Shia, for example; Fatimah is an authoritative source of the Prophet's sayings and deeds.Tibetan Muslim sisters in the doorway of their home in Lhasa. These terms illustrate the "diving" phenomenon (315).

The meaning of the Hadith is to emphasize that, even though a person may do good throughout his life, he should never be absolutely certain that the good he has done all along is sufficient to carry him through; he should not forget that one bad deed could overcome all the good ones. It is therefore not sufficient to be pious without performing deeds which demonstrate one's beliefs. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing. As a result of this new status and the revolution it worked on Arab society—women became pillars of early Muslim society and were counted among its strongest supporters. According to the specialized terminology of the Ottoman administrative system, "justice" was the protection of the rural and urban producers against abuses of the military elite. While using a variety of sources - including treatises on government and ethics composed by the Ottoman literati, documents from regional court records and correspondence between the imperial center and the officials in the provinces - my primary focus is on Evliya Çelebi's seventeenth-century travel-book, Seyahatname, and a well-known seventeenth century chronicle, Tarih-i Naima.In this article I introduce quantitative techniques and procedures to analyze how various social groups in mid-18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu experienced the court process. The literature used is Islamic literature in the Bosnian and English languages.The findings are that Islamic laws compel companies to be wary of interest, uncertainty or risk. Sunni and Shia Islam. As—to varying degrees—each of my selected authors contests the theories of cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas, special attention is paid to her work. My discussion here, however, is limited to the doctrinal theory of such intent-based legal analyses, about which the Muslim jurists, including the Yemeni jurists of my extended example, hold divergent opinions. From a business perspective, banking and insurance suits are not enforced. It is reported that the Prophet once entered a mosque and saw at prayer a venerable old man with a long white beard. Although a husband has the right to divorce his wife unilaterally—a right not shared by women—a wife can divorce her husband on specific legal grounds by court order.In education, too, women have the same rights as men. These two attempted to write down in a verbatim fashion the traditions quoted by the teacher; however, when the teacher compared his views with those of other jurists, the students (or, at least, one of them) felt free to write down the comparisons in their own, personal styles.