Some of them are those who never see it, and they are the "Ahjam al-Ghur". Some of them lighten the virginity with a light touch, as is the custom of the people of Egypt, and they are the elders of the people. Some of them inflict virginity with a right that is difficult to penetrate, and they make a pipe of tin for the thread of the arrows. These, when they marry off their daughters, the man cannot deflower her until they prepare the place for him with a knife. And there are women for this purpose. And at the time of childbirth, it is also the same. These are the most among the poor women who are always involved with men. And they do this out of fear of deflowering through adultery. Despite this, the place is penetrated while they are in that state. And in the protection of girls, great matters are undertaken, and they prolong great feasts. And it is their custom that the relatives of the protected girl, among the men, provide outside the place where the girl is in labor and the women are with her. If she cries out at the time of virginity and screams, they curse her and abandon her. If she endures, each of her relatives gives her according to his situation and their kinship. Some give her a cow, some give her cows, some give her a companion, and some give her a sheep or sheep, until she becomes among the wealthy. Her father and grandfather give her more than all the people, whether they are rich or not. It is their custom to make the dowries of girls heavy.

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