>>514762168
We will not erect in our city or the suburbs any new monastery, church, cell or hermitage. We will not repair any of such buildings that may fall into ruins, or renew those that may be situated in the Muslim quarters of the town. We will not refuse the Muslims entry into our churches either by night or by day. We will open the gates wide to passengers and travellers. We will receive any Muslim traveller into our houses and give him food and lodging for three nights. We will not harbor any spy in our churches or houses, or conceal any enemy of the Muslims. We will not teach our children the Qu'ran. We will not make a show of the Christian religion nor invite any one to embrace it. We will not prevent any of our kinsmen from embracing Islam, if they so desire. We will honor the Muslims and rise up in our assemblies when they wish to take their seats. We will not imitate them in our dress, either in the cap, turban, sandals, or parting of the hair; that we will not make use of their expressions of speech, nor adopt their surnames. We will not ride on saddles, or gird on swords, or take to ourselves arms or wear them, or engrave Arabic inscriptions on our rings. We will not sell wine. We will shave the front of our heads. We will keep to our own style of dress, wherever we may be. We will wear girdles round our waists. We will not display the cross upon our churches or display our crosses or our sacred books in the streets of the Muslims, or in their market-places. We will strike the clappers in our churches lightly. We will not recite our services in a loud voice when a Muslim is present. We will not carry Palm branches or our images in procession in the streets. At the burial of our dead we will not chant loudly or carry lighted candles in the streets of the Muslims or their market places. We will not take any slaves that have already been in the possession of Muslims, nor spy into their houses. We will not strike any Muslim.
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