Stage 3 · Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī (10th c.)

Kitāb al-Anwār wa'l-Marāqib: Discourse V · Ch. 8: Circumcision of a sick person

Discourse V: The Torah's Legal Commandments

Kitāb al-Anwār wa'l-Marāqib in the original Judeo-Arabic, with a working English translation by Eliyahu Freedman (working draft). Hover a phrase to see its English light up; tap any word for a gloss.

Layers
Page8

Aligned sentence by sentence

[] .

The Rabbanites do not permit circumcising a child if he is ill and allow him to wait until he is healed. And a group of our companions disagree with them on this point, and require his circumcision in every case. ّI believe that if the child is sick, and there is concern that circumcision will harm him, it is not permitted to circumcise him until he is healed. And this is also derived from our position that the more stringent requirement of the commandments supersedes weaker considerations, and destroying a soul is more stringent than circumcision. And if such is the case, delaying the circumcision is preferable to harming the child in the same way that feeding him milk during Yom Kippur is preferable than withholding it from him and abandoning him such that he is harmed.

English is a working draft — alignment is sentence-by-sentence.