When approaching people, they were to call out the warning: “Unclean, unclean! ” A leper was like someone dead.
وَيُذْكَرُ أَيْضًا أَنَّ أَحَدَ ٱلْقَادَةِ ٱلدِّينِيِّينَ أَلْقَى ٱلْحِجَارَةَ عَلَى شَخْصٍ أَبْرَصَ حِينَ رَآهُ بُغْيَةَ إِبْعَادِهِ رَغْمَ أَنَّه لَمْ يَكُنْ قَرِيبًا مِنْهُ .‏