Abstract
1. Each crime has a specified penalty that differs according to criminals; elites and those without sins get mild penalty in comparison with those known for bad conduct.
2. There a close relation between reproach and admonition as admonition is secretly presented while reproach is publicly presented.
3. Dissertation of the wife and ordinary people for more than three days is forbidden, whereas in case of scolding criminals and sinners, the Imam is authorized to order deserting them even for three days as he finds suitable.
4. All rebuke penalties mentioned above are meant to scold and chide. A penalty that does not achieve the objective of rebuke, will not be executed rather it will changed to another penalty.
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