It Is Loathsome to Wear Tight Socks, and Send E-mails
excerpts from Ayatollah Khomeini's A Clarification of Questions, a guidebook to morality for the citizens of Iran:
#107. The whole body of an infidel, even the hair, nails and its wetness, is unclean.#116. The sweat of an unlawful ejaculation is not unclean but it is an obligatory caution not to pray with a body or a cloth polluted with it.
#346. If a moisture emerges from a person and he does not know if it is semen or urine or else, it is considered to be semen if it exits with lust, is projectile and followed by listlessness of the body. If it did not have all or some of these features it is not reckoned as semen.
#1158. It is loathsome to lay a prayer when one is sleepy and when one is holding his urine and stool. Similarly, it is loathsome to wear tight socks which press the foot in prayer. And besides these there are other abominations which are mentioned in detailed books.
#2405. The mother and sister and daughter of a boy who performed sodomy are unlawful to the sodomite even if the doer and the giver of sodomy are both minors. But if he suspects that he entered, or doubts whether or not he entered, they do not become unlawful to him.
#2410. If a person contracts for himself a girl who has not reached puberty and before she finishes her ninth year enters the girl he must never have intercourse with her in case he causes her path of urine or menses or that of menses and stool to become one.
#2481. One cannot marry those women who, as a result of suckling, have become his wife's nieces, without his wife's permission. Similarly, if he practices sodomy with a boy he cannot marry the milk-related daughter and sister and mother and grandmother of that boy, i.e. those that have become his daughter and sister and mother as a result of suckling.
#2504. When he has intercourse with his wife who is clean from menstrual and childbirth blood and wants to divorce her he must wait until she menstruates and becomes clean again. But there is no concern in divorcing a woman after intercourse if she is less than nine years old or she is pregnant. The same holds when she is menopausal, meaning one who is older than 60 years of age, if a (woman) Master (seyyedeh) [certain female descendants of the Prophet], and more than 50 years of age, if she is not.
#2515. A woman who has finished her ninth year of age and [who] is not menopausal and enters into a concubinage for, for example, a month or a year must, in case of intercourse with her husband, refrain from taking a husband for two menstrual periods, if she menstruates, and 45 days if she does not; beginning from the time her term comes to an end or she is spared by the husband.
reading from Emily Gosselink's Insecurity is Power: A Guide to Lame Duck Leadership
Okay, guys...enough is enough. This really is Emily Gosselink, and it's time to end the reply-to-all [sic: 213 recips] e-mail. Anyone who sends another unsolicited e-mail after mine (time stamp: 10:54 p.m.) will be subject to discipline. I appreciate the creativity in many of the messages, but the unsolicited mass e-mails must stop now.Good night!
Emily Gosselink
Associate Dean of Students
Covenant College
706.419.1107
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