Orphans
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orphans · al-aytām · minors · orphan · الايتام
spoken of as
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Āṅgirasa Smṛti (Sanskrit)
if one knowingly eats with a menstruating woman or an orphan;
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Fatherless minors whose property and affairs fall to the accountant's charge, and whose treatment measures his fidelity to the trust.
As for the man who fears God in it, and keeps the registers for upright judges, and takes charge of the affairs of orphans and of the alms and the property of endowments and colleges, and renders the trust faithfully and fears God in it — such a man is praiseworthy and is rewarded for his intention;
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
Wards who may sue guardians within the statutory period; the opponents once held this sympathetic status.
Now, men of the jury, that you may know that they not only have suffered no wrong in the present case, but that they are bringing suit in defiance of all your laws, I wish to cite to you this statute also, which expressly states that, if five years have elapsed and they have brought no suit, it is no longer permitted to orphans to bring suit regarding claims connected with guardianship.
They were orphans and young, and you were ignorant of their real characters;
Else it would be an outrageous thing, if for original wrongdoings the law does not allow suit to be brought by orphans after five years against guardians who have not been released, but now in the twentieth year you are to maintain an action against us, the children of your guardians, for matters concerning which you did give them a release.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Those whose wealth, wrongfully devoured, is said in the quoted verse to be fire devoured into the bellies of the devourers.
(His words, ‘and His saying, exalted be He, «truly those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully devour only fire into their bellies»’, and the saying of the Opener and the Seal, upon him and upon his household be the most excellent blessing and greeting, «those who drink from vessels of gold and silver — it is only the fire of Hell that gurgles into their bellies», and his saying, upon him be …
«truly those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully
«devour only fire into their bellies»):
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
Orphans, whose presence at the śrāddha meal is treated as a disruptive condition.
if one knowingly eats with a menstruating woman or an orphan;