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A woman brought a complaint against her husband before the judge, saying: He does not leave me free for a single moment—not in privacy nor in public, not while kneading dough nor while baking bread, not while I am fasting nor while I am at prayer. Her husband said: I sought you for this very purpose. The woman said: O judge, for God's sake, determine how many times in a day and night he may lie with me, so that I may know it and hold myself ready for it. The judge said: Ten times! The woman said: I have not the strength for this. He said: Nine times! She said: I have not the strength; and so she kept on until he had brought it down to five times. The woman said: I have not the strength for this either. The judge said: Woe to you, do you not wish this poor wretch to have any share at all? The woman said: I consent! The man said: O judge, command her to provide a guarantor for herself. The woman said: Behold, the judge of the Muslims is my guarantor. The judge said: O adulteress, you wish to flee from him and cast me into his hands, so that what he does to you he may do to me! Rise and get out, and may God's curse be upon you. In the cravings of the carnal soul, become no one's agent; I fear that, with a thousand honors, you will be made abased. He surrenders his body to whoredom when the time of the deed arrives— every chaste one who becomes a whore's guarantor.