The Taliban's new criminal code explicitly legalizes slavery and creates a rigid class hierarchy where religious scholars receive polite notifications while the poor face beatings and lashes for the same offenses. This theocratic system divides citizens into Muslims and non-Muslims, free people and slaves, men and women, granting husbands and masters legal authority to punish those beneath them. The document proves that any sharia-based legal framework inevitably produces institutionalized inequality and human bondage.