B. B. Shaw —A Grammar of the Language 
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[No. 3, 
OPINION OF ONE OF HIS HIGHNESS THE AMIB OF KASH- 
GHAB’S COUNSEL LEABNED IN THE LAW. 
Translation. 
Case put: 
(Whereas) by his statement (it appears) that, as was pre-ordained, 
a sum o£ thirty-three tangas was lost from the house of Sufurgi Ba'i from 
his bed, and afterwards Sufurgi Ba'i said to (his) wife A’i Khan: “ If you 
have put away this money, thirty-three tangas, produce it, (and) I will add 
twenty-four tangas, and will make a cloak after your heart’s desire and give 
(it to you) [ or , will cause to he made (for you) &c.] ; (and) if (when) you 
have produced the money, I should not add the (other) money and give you 
the cloak, and should not stand to my promise, (then) be you thrice divor¬ 
ced.” Thus he made* * * § conditions. 
[' Opinion :] 
Under these circumstances, according to the terms of the Holy Law, 
the said A'i Bihi may not have produced the money, and Sufurgi Ba'i may 
not have given the twenty-four tangas to the said Ai Bibi; (but) the said 
A'i Bihi does not , by a hreachf of Sufurgi Ba'i’s promise, become divorced 
three times as againstJ Sufurgi Ba'i. And God knows best. (Arabic.) 
“ That which depends on a condition does not come into operation in 
the absence of that condition.” (Qazi Khan.)§ 
“ That which depends on a condition is wanting previous to the ex¬ 
istence of the same.” (Nihaya.)§ 
“ And every thing which depends on a qualification does not come into 
operation without the existence of the same.” (Doubtful.) § 
[Seal.] 
He who 
sujqfiicates the 
''mercy of the Lord of' 
Evidenceil: 
Mufti Muhammad, 
son of 
Hisamu-’d-din. 
* All the verbs, excepting those supposed to be spoken by Sufurgi Ba'i, down to 
this point, are in the Potential form as being dependent on the statement of the 
applicant. 
f The negative expressed in the concluding verb applies to the preceding clause 
also. The phrase might be rendered “ It is not the case that Sufurgi Bai has broken 
his promise, and that (therefore) A'i Bibi has become divorced.” 
J Lit. “to the injury of.” 
§ These Arabic quotations are from the books of expounders of the law brought 
in as authorities for the decision come to. The authorship of the last is entered as 
“ doubtful.” 
|| Or, “the manifest Lord,” 
