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Religious Law
- EnglishCivil Courts in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan shall have the right to exercise jurisdiction over all persons in all civil and criminal matters, including cases filed by the Government or filed against it, with exception of the matters in respect of which jurisdiction is vested in Religious Courts or Special Courts in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution or any other legislation in force. (Art. 102)
- Arabicتمارس المحاكم النظامية في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية حق القضاء على جميع الأشخاص في جميع المواد المدنية والجزائية بما فيها الدعاوي التي تقيمها الحكومة أو تقام عليها بإستثناء المواد التي قد يفوض فيها حق القضاء إلى محاكم دينية أو محاكم خاصة بموجب أحكام هذا الدستور أو أي تشريع آخر نافذ المفعول. (المادّة 102)
Religious Law
- English…
(3) Religion and the State are separate, which means—
(a) the State and all persons holding public office must treat all religions equally;
(b) the State and all persons holding public office must not dictate any religious belief;
(c) the State and all persons holding public office must not prefer or advance, by any means, any particular religion, religious denomination, religious belief, or religious practice over another, or over any non-religious belief; and
(d) no person shall assert any religious belief as a legal reason to disregard this Constitution or any other law. (Sec. 4) - iTaukei…
(3) E sega ni okati vata na lotu kei na Matanitu, e kena ibalebale ya ni—
(a) na Matanitu kei ira na vakailesilesi ni valenivolavola ni lewenivanua e dodonu mera rokova na veimatalotu kece;
(b) na Matanitu kei ira na kena vakailesilesi ni valenivolavola ni lewenivanua mera kua ni vakatulewataka e dua na vakabauta vakalotu;
(c) na Matanitu kei ira na kena vakailesilesi ni valenivolavola ni lewenivanua mera kua ni totaka e dua na matalotu, isoqosoqo lotu, se mata vakabauta, oka tale ga kina na vakabauta sega ni yavutaki vakalotu; ka
(d) me kua ni dua na tamata me vakayagataka na nona vakabauta vakalotu me vakacala vakalawa na Yavunivakavulewa qo se dua tale na lawa tabaki. (Sec. 4)
Religious Law
- English…
And Whereas the People of this Family of Islands recognizing that the preservation of their Freedom will be guaranteed by a national commitment to Self-discipline, Industry, Loyalty, Unity and an abiding respect for Christian values and the Rule of Law;
… (Preamble)
Religious Law
- English…
(2) Every religious group has the right to establish and maintain institutions for the education of children in its own religion, and there shall be no discrimination on the ground only of religion in any law relating to such institutions or in the administration of any such law; but it shall be lawful for the Federation or a State to establish or maintain or assist in establishing or maintaining Islamic institutions or provide or assist in providing instruction in the religion of Islam and incur such expenditure as may be necessary for the purpose.
… (Art. 12) - Malay…
(2) Tiap-tiap kumpulan agama berhak menubuhkan dan menyenggarakan institusi-institusi bagi pendidikan kanak-kanak dalam agama kumpulan itu sendiri, dan tidak boleh ada diskriminasi semata-mata atas alasan agama dalam mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan institusi-institusi itu atau dalam pentadbiran mana-mana undang-undang itu; tetapi adalah sah bagi Persekutuan atau sesuatu Negeri menubuhkan atau menyenggarakan atau membantu dalam menubuhkan atau menyenggarakan institusi-institusi Islam atau mengadakan atau membantu dalam mengadakan ajaran dalam agama Islam dan melakukan apa-apa perbelanjaan sebagaimana yang perlu bagi maksud itu.
… (Perkara 12)
Religious Law
- English
A High Islamic Council is a consultative organ along side [auprès] the President of the Republic. It is responsible notably:
– for encouraging and promoting Ijtihad;
– to provide its opinion with regard to the religious prescriptions concerning what is submitted to it;
– to present a periodic report of activity to the President of the Republic. (Art. 206) - Arabic
المجلس الإسلامي الأعلى هيئة استشارية لدى رئيس الجمهورية. يتولّى على وجه الخصوص:
– الحثّ على الاجتهاد وترقيته،
– إبداء الحكم الشّرعيّ فيما يُعرَض عليه،
– رفع تقرير دوريّ عن نشاطه إلى رئيس الجمهوريّة. (المــادة 206) - French
Le Haut Conseil Islamique est un organe consultatif placé auprès du Président de la République. Il est chargé notamment:
— d'encourager et de promouvoir l'Ijtihad;
— d'émettre son avis au regard des prescriptions religieuses sur ce qui lui est soumis;
— de présenter un rapport périodique d'activité au Président de la République. (Art. 206)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe historical principle of the separation of the State and the churches orients the norms contained in this Article. The churches and other religious groups will be subject to the law.
… (Art. 130) - SpanishEl principio histórico de la separación del Estado y las iglesias orienta las normas contenidas en el presente artículo. Las iglesias y demás agrupaciones religiosas se sujetarán a la ley.
… (Art. 130)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Union also recognizes Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Animism as the religions existing in the Union at the day of the coming into operation of this Constitution. (Sec. 362)
- Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် ခရစ်ယာန်ဘာသာသာသနာ၊ အစ္စလာမ်ဘာသာသာသနာ၊ ဟိန္ဒူဘာသာသာသနာ နှင့် နတ်ကိုးကွယ်သောဘာသာတို့ကို ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အာဏာ တည်သောနေ့၌ နိုင်ငံတော်တွင်တည်ရှိနေကြသော ကိုးကွယ်ရာ ဘာသာများဟူ၍ အသိ အမှတ်ပြုသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၆၂)
Religious Law
- EnglishExpressly excluded from revision are:
– the republican and secular form of the State;
… (Art. 153) - FrenchSont expressément exclus de la révision:
- La forme républicaine et laïque de l’Etat;
… (Art. 153)
Religious Law
- EnglishFamily is the fundamental pillar of the society, and shall be protected by the state. The state shall adopt necessary measures to attain the physical and spiritual health of the family, especially of the child and mother, upbringing of children, as well as the elimination of related traditions contrary to the principles of the sacred religion of Islam. (Art. 54)
- Dariخانواده ركن اساسی جامعه را تشكیل می دهد و مورد حمایت دولت قرار دارد. دولت به منظور تأمین سلامت جسمی و روحی خانواده، بالاخص طفل و مادر، تربیت اطفال و برای از بین بردن رسوم مغایر با احكام دین مقدس اسلام تدابیر لازم اتخاذ می كند. (مادۀ ۵۴)
- Pashtoكورنۍ د ټولنې اساسي ركن دى او د دولت تر پاملرنې لاندې ده. دولت د كورنۍ او په ځانګړې توگه د مور او ماشوم د جسمي او روحي روغتيا د تأمين، د ماشومانو د روزنې او د اسلام د سپېڅلي دين له احكامو سره د مغايرو رسومو د له منځه وړلو لپاره لازم تدبيرونه نيسي. (۵۴ ماده)
Religious Law
- EnglishIn this Chapter, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,--
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(c) "law" includes any custom or usage having the force of law but does not include the Constitution, Muslim personal law, any law relating to the procedure of any court or tribunal or, until the expiration of ten years from the commencement of this Chapter, any fiscal law or any law relating to the levy and collection of taxes and fees or banking or insurance practice and procedure; and
… (Art. 203B) - Urduاس باب میں، تاوقتیکہ کوئی امر موضوع یا سیاق و سباق کے منافی نہ ہو، --
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(ج) "قانون" میں کوئی رسم یا رواج شامل ہے جو قانون کا اثر رکھتا ہو مگر اس میں دستور، مسلم شخصی قانون، کسی عدالت یا ٹریبونل کے ضابطہ کار سے متعلق کوئی قانون یا، اس باب کے آغاذ نفاذ سے دس سال کی مدت گزرنے تک، کوئی مالی قانون یا محصولات یا فیسوں کے عائد کرنے اور جمع کرنے یا بنکاری یا بیمہ کے عمل اور طریقہ سے متعلق کوئی قانون شامل نہیں ہے؛ اور
... (آرٹیکل ۲۰۳ب)