GATE THE SEVENTY-NINTH. If, during a malady, the physician prescribe the eating of any dead animal, let the patient comply without repugnance and partake of it. GATE THE EIGHTIETH. A dead body is not to be committed to water or fire.[507] GATE THE EIGHTY-FIRST. If any one force a professor of the pure faith to partake of the flesh of a dead body, or even throw it at him, he must perform the Barashnom and recite the _Patet Iran_. Note: that is, he must repent, and implore pardon, and exert himself in good works, that he may escape going to hell.[508] GATE THE EIGHTY-SECOND. If any animal partake of a dead body, it continues unclean during a whole year.[509] GATE THE EIGHTY-THIRD. Nothing should be given (to the unworthy) unless through dread of the oppressor: that is, if believers apprehend not danger from the sinner, and do not entertain alarm at his power of doing them injury, they are not to give him any thing. GATE THE EIGHTY-FOURTH. In the morning, on arising from sleep, rub thy hands with something, then thrice wash thy face, thy arms from the wrist to the elbow, and thy foot as far as the leg; reciting the _Avesta_ at the same time. If the believer cannot find water, he is then permitted to use dust. GATE THE EIGHTY-FIFTH. When the husbandman introduces water for the irrigation of his own fields, he carefully observes that there be not a dead body in the stream. GATE THE EIGHTY-SIXTH. A woman after parturition must during forty days beware of using vessels of wood or earth, and is not to cross the threshold of the house. She is then to wash her head: during all this time her husband is not to approach her. GATE THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH. If a woman be delivered of a dead child previous to four months’ gestation, as it is without a soul, it is not to be regarded as a dead body; but should this occur after the term of four months, it is then to be looked on as a dead body, and to be conveyed to burial with the usual ceremonies. GATE THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH. When a death occurs, the people of the house and the relatives of the deceased are to abstain from meat during three days. GATE THE EIGHTY-NINTH. It is incumbent on the professors of the true faith to be liberal, generous, and munificent; for God hath declared: “Paradise is the abode of the liberal.” GATE THE NINETIETH. Reciting the Eshem Vehu[510] is attended with countless merits: it is necessary to do this at the time of eating bread, of going to sleep, at midnight, on turning from one side to the other, and at the time of rising up in the morning.