BASE MONEY

The sale of one pure dirham and two base ones in exchange for two pure dirhams and one base one is lawful. By two base ones ( g͟halat̤ain ), are to be understood such as pa amongst merchants but are rejected at the public treasury. ( Hidāyah , vol. ii. 560.) AL -BAṢĪR ( البصير‎ ). One of the ninety-nine special names of God. It frequently occurs in the Qurʾān, and means “The All-seeing One.” BAṢĪRAH ( بصيرة‎ ). Lit . “Penetration.” The sight of the heart as distinguished from the sight of the eye ( Baṣārah or Baṣar ). A term used by theologians to expre that enlightenment of the heart “whereby the spiritual man can understand spiritual things with as much certainty as the natural man can see objects with the sight of the eye.” The word occurs twice in the Qurʾān, Sūrah xii. 108 , “This is my way; I cry unto God, resting on clear evidence ;” Sūrah lxxv. 14 , “A man shall be evidence against himself.” AL -BĀSIT̤ ( الباسط‎ ). One of the ninety-nine special names of God. It means “He who spreads, or stretches out,” and occurs in the Qurʾān, Sūrah xiii. 15 . As applied to God, it means, “He who dispenses riches,” . BASTARD ( ولد الزنا‎ , waladu ʾz-zinā ). An illegitimate child has, according to Muḥammadan law, no legal father, and consequently the law does not allow the father to interfere with his illegitimate child, even for the purposes of education. He cannot inherit the property of his father, but he is acknowledged as the rightful heir of his mother (Baillie’s Digest , p. 432). The evidence of a bastard is valid, because he is innocent with respect to the immorality of his parents; but the Imām Mālik maintains that his testimony is not to be accepted with respect to a charge of whoredom. ( Hidāyah , vol. ii. 692.)