chapter four on the trick of breaking their oaths and pacts when they make them with the respondent if someone says to us what do you say about their covenants agreements and oaths made with the respondent? are they binding? is it permissible to break them? is breaking them obligatory or forbidden? does breaking the oath oblige the one who makes the oath to commit a sin and expiate it? or is it not obligatory? how many people have made a covenant with them and the oath was made firm upon them and they were deceived by their imagination. then when their misguidance was revealed to them they wished to disgrace them and expose their faults but they prevented him. the strong oaths that are confirmed upon him so there is a pressing need to teach the trick to get out of those oaths. so we say that deliverance from those oaths is possible and it has methods that differ according to the circumstances and words.
الفصل الرابع في حيلة الخروج عن إيمانهم وعهودهم إذا عقدوها على المستجيب فإن قال لنا قائل ما قولكم في عهودهم ومواثيقهم وأيمانهم المعقودة على المستجيبين هل تنعقد وهل يجوز الحنث فيها أم يجب الحنث أو يحرم وأن حنث الحالف يلزمه بسببه معصية وكفارة أم لا يلزم وكم من شخص عقد عليه العهد وأكدت عليه اليمين فتطوقه اغترارا بتخيلهم ثم لما انكشف له ضلالهم تمنى افتضاحهم والكشف عن عوراتهم ولكن منعته الأيمان المغلظة المؤكدة عليه فالحاجة ماسة إلى تعليم الحيلة في الخروج عن تلك الأيمان فنقول الخلاص من تلك الأيمان ممكن ولها طرق تختلف باختلاف الأحوال والألفاظ