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Guru Nanak Quotes

«A dress, a vehicle, ornaments, cooked food, water, and female ,slaves , property destined for pious uses or sacrifices, and a pasture ground, they declare to be indivisible.»
«The division ,of the property and the rules for allotting ,shares to the ,several sons, those begotten on a wife and the rest, in ,due order, have been thus declared to you, hear ,now the laws concerning gambling.»
«Gambling and betting let the king exclude from his realm, those two vices cause the destruction of the kingdoms of princes.»
«Gambling and betting amount to open theft, the king shall always exert himself in suppressing both ,of them .»
«When inanimate ,things are used ,for staking money on them , that is called among men gambling , when animate beings are used ,for the same purpose , one must know that to be betting .»
«Gamblers, dancers and singers, cruel men, men belonging to an heretical sect, those following forbidden occupations, and sellers of spirituous liquor, let him instantly banish from his town.»
«If such ,persons who are secret thieves, dwell in the realm of a king, they constantly harass his good subjects by their forbidden practices.»
«On every man who addicts himself to that ,vice either secretly or openly, the king may inflict punishment according to his discretion.»
«On women, infants, men of disordered mind, the poor and the sick, the king shall inflict punishment with a whip, a cane, or a rope and the like.»
«Those appointed ,to administer public affairs, who, baked by the fire of wealth, mar the business of suitors, the king shall deprive of their property.»