What should a person do who vowed to donate five dinars for every glance at women, and a large sum of money has accumulated that he does not possess now, nor can he precisely calculate its value?
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Looking at foreign women is forbidden and leads to great evils. Your statement, "If I look at women, I must give five dinars in charity," is an oath of obstinacy (Nathr Lajaj). If you violate what you have vowed, then you owe a single expiation for an oath (kaffarat ) according to most scholars, even if the action is repeated.
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