To Cover His Head With Aught Which May Be Deemed A Covering, As A Cap
Or Turband; But He May Carry An Umbrella, Dive Under Water, Stand In
The Shade, And Even Place His Hands Upon His Head.
A woman may wear
sewn clothes, white or light blue (not black), but her face-veil should
be kept at a distance from her face.
2.
To wear anything sewn or with seams, as shirt, trowsers, or slippers;
anything knotted or woven, as chain-armour; but the pilgrim may use,
for instance, a torn-up shirt or trowsers bound round his loins or
thrown over his shoulders, he may knot his Izar, and tie it with a cord,
and he may gird his waist.
3. To knot the Rida, or shoulder-cloth.[FN#16]
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4. To deviate from absolute chastity, even kissing being forbidden to
the Muhrim. Marriage cannot be contracted during the pilgrimage season.
5. To use perfumes, oil, curling the locks, or removing the nails and
hair by paring, cutting, plucking, or burning. The nails may be
employed to remove pediculi from the hair and clothes, but with care,
that no pile fall off.
6. To hunt wild animals, or to kill those which were such originally.
But he may destroy the five noxious,a kite, a crow, a rat, a scorpion, and
a dog given to biting. He must not cut down a tree,[FN#17] or pluck up
a self-growing plant; but he is permitted to reap and to cut grass.
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