1. I have made a covenant with you, so a covenant is inevitable
To a judge and a governor over the army

2. To bear anything you bear compassionately
And know that my only intention is God

3. So whoever of them breaks the covenant of God, I will depose him
And whoever does not break the covenant, I will strengthen him

4. I am nothing but a breaker of covenants and a traitor
If I do not always remain with those who were loyal to my covenant

5. It is the people's disobedience and disregard for me
If I do not obey the Owner of the Throne or protect my religion

6. So O judge, I have established for you a great
Position, so consider what you should promise and initiate

7. And whoever appoints judgment and ruling exposes himself
To affliction and danger and harm

8. You have taken on trusts, so be fearful and remember
The reckoning of individuals

9. The heavens and earth shrank away in fear
And were apprehensive of bearing the trust and covenant

10. So take the Book of God and follow Ahmad
And his followers; you will be guided and guided to righteousness

11. Whatever knowledge escapes you, rush towards
Knowledge through God, through God seek guidance

12. And judge only when free and secluded
From condemned boredom and angry judgment

13. Observe the litigants closely with your eyes
And treat the freeman and slave equally in court

14. When an unreasonable claim comes to you, be silent
For a little while—yes, be silent when the obstinate man makes his claim

15. And do not accuse a litigant on account of his opponent even if
Your suspicion and his suspicion seem valid and future

16. And set aside time for women to bring claims to you
Or complain of sorrow they have suffered

17. For you do not judge based on expression or your trusted ones
Seeing the fluttering eyelids and cheek

18. And do not let them walk among people with their feet
So anklets and jewels clash against jewels

19. And say to the youthful slave to be humble and submissive
To his master and serve him properly

20. Until the whitening dawn when the sun rises
And after this, free from service, he will be comfortable

21. And for the day let sustenance equal
That of the buyer up to a quarter ṣāʿ—no distress

22. Oblige the animal owners to water them
Day and night, then proclaim with the prod

23. Wherever the journey takes you, let your buyers
Accompany you even if they are from the city

24. And take God’s right from every Muslim
Based on the Sunna of the Ummī in collecting and sending out

25. Half the agricultural tithe, and from trees if irrigated
By waterwheels; otherwise a tenth of what was produced with toil

26. If one waters it and another, take for one
A tenth, and for the other a half by proper division

27. When it reaches—by their deeds—two hundred ṣāʿ by
Three hundred in partnership or alone

28. If it does not reach this, and belongs to only
One apart from partnership, exceeding partnership by measure

29. So take from him God’s due in this and that, when
He reaches ninety days after the harvest

30. And whoever concludes a deal over fruits with his bride
Take from them both like an individual—understand, O brother of Azd

31. Whatever they designate for God from it satisfies Him
And none has a right to it after having given the choice

32. A tenth from presses—leave it in them for whoever
Owns the sword, but tell the grower to pay

33. And do not demand one commodity for another commodity, for whatever
Differs in name is a different commodity by measure

34. Except for dates, since dates are exchanged
For dates like grapes, yellow for black

35. Whoever sells palm trees after they bloom, the remaining
Number with him is liable for zakāt if he intends sale

36. And you have no due in fruits that shrivel
And are not eaten after withering in the period

37. So permit them—the fresh dates—and leave them and their fresh eating be
And what they ate as ripe, leave the people comfortable

38. Twenty mithqāls are the minimum liable for zakāt
If a year passes with its fourth and a mithqāl

39. Of two hundred dirhams of silver
Take five—a quarter tithe, O brother of Saʿd

40. You see half a mithqāl equals five dirhams
So reckon this against that and strive

41. And if this does not equal that, and together
They complete a minimum, estimate them equally in cash

42. And whatever they extract from their two mines
Pay zakāt on a fifth of the minimum necessarily

43. And take a quarter tithe from the women’s ruses
If they reach the minimum concerning bodies

44. And do not break the anklets and necklaces of women
Harmfully when women ransom themselves with cash

45. The same for whatever traders exchange for profit
If it completes a minimum, the dirham value by promise

46. You have no right in what they store of their fruits
If it does not mix with circulating goods

47. Whatever a father possesses in his house of his son’s property
Is mixed, even if it remains with the lion

48. The property of orphans—pay its zakāt, or what
Comes to them through inheritance before dividing in Dhuʾl-Qiʿda

49. Whoever has money to pay his debt
Let him pay it if he wishes, then take the due of the Majestic One

50. For every loan hoped to be repaid
You have a right, so suppress playfulness with seriousness

51. And assess principal in every deferred payment
If you do not find debt, even if it comes with affliction

52. Whatever the ground hides or goes
For years—so take the years’ dues when found

53. Every minimum liable, pay its zakāt for a year
With what increased, near or far, for all time

54. Do not blame the eminent man you suspect
Stinginess, miserliness, envy, and hatred

55. A delegation has come from Egypt; our ruling
Does not apply to them, so enrich the palms and refrain from the delegation

56. And only collect what you protected and what
Your months contained—do not expose more, then turn away

57. As for zakāt on grazing livestock and its judgment
Among camels that inhabited Junud’s meadows

58. For every five, or exceeding four
Up to twenty-four after a year, a sheep, O Abu Nuʿaym

59. For five and twenty, a one-year-old she-camel
That has birthed; and a two-year-old male in counting them

60. for redemption
And eleven more—so a two-year-old female camel

61. For five in ninety, with the noble and young
So for six after forty, a three-year-old female camel

62. To sixty in number in ravines and elevated places
But from sixty-one ending

63. At seventy-five take a mature camel
Your due from seventy-six is two

64. One-year-old she-camels up to ninety—so take guidance that you may be guided
Ninety-one, so a right and an Uqiya doe

65. Female up to one hundred, O wild cow
As for three two-year-olds, they are for

66. Thirty over ninety-one in the summits
After them, if they increase by ten, an Uqiya doe

67. For fifty or, for forty, an Azd daughter
And add sheep if single females differ

68. Otherwise, leave them and add sheep and ready yourself
Thus, sheep are liable for one-sixth where a camel

69. Is mature, and two sheep equal a right and measure
A Labun daughter equals two sheep in the same way

70. The female Bāqir camel equals a mature cow
Leave aside young males and lambs—so leave

71. Factors for the slender and firm
For forty, a sheep; its zakāt is a sheep

72. Up to sixty in two hundred in fertility and effort
If a sheep comes out, then two sheep is its duty

73. Up to two hundred sheep, white and red
Of two hundred sheep plus one that multiplies

74. To three hundred take three—steady yourself!
And take four from four hundred, then after it

75. Take singles from every hundred that appears
Do not gather what was separate, nor

76. Separate their collection, for blame or praise
What the camels gathered for milking, pay its zakāt

77. As for the grazing sheep, count them!
Do not take flawed, thin, and avoid

78. Their best—seek like you seek choice
The owner of property divides it in half

79. Then chooses one half, then carefully consider
When driving a sheep, likewise drive a sheep

80. So a sheep for a sheep, or it suffices and is renewed
If the protected one brings out a male, leave it be

81. And if he hides the unknown, excuse the individual
And prevent harm from those who harm him, for we

82. Have a pact with him—so proceed to it gently
Cut his forelock, invert his stirrups

83. Tie his waist with belt and make him ride behind
Let no female slaves or servant women of a submitting Muslim

84. Ride on a saddle—prohibit evil deeds!
Whatever livestock and farms we buy

85. Are liable for zakāt just as they used to be, undiminished
Their head tax—not on children or women

86. Or the elderly, insane, chronically ill, and slaves—
The middle ones are two, and the ruqiyya a dirham

87. The strongest four a month you send out!
From an Arab of the People of the Two Books, take double

88. What is on the Muslims. Take and refrain from head tax!
If the protected one fights, seize him and capture what

89. Is born to him except what an Arab begets
Whatever is readied for defense in their homes or they throw

90. At you from them an arrow—demolish it like a coward!
And in case of their refusal, descent at their homes and date palms

91. Cutting down branches along with the lead camel drivers
Do not kill children, the simple-minded—leave them be!

92. Nor women unless they actually fight with enmity
Beware of fires! Do not burn people with them

93. Rush to extinguish the flame and extinguish!
Proclaim this openly, then whoever disobeys

94. Seize him for what he falsely claimed and did intentionally
As for punishments endangering lives, return them

95. To me, for the adjustment of ḥudūd is my prerogative
Take them as rules—I have composed them

96. Giving life to those before me, light to those after me
I have kindled without tiring so its judgment appears

97. With justice—war material even for my line
“In opposition, O brother of Layla, Salma, and Fatim

98. Juml, Mayya, or Bathina and Daʿd...”
I hope for forgiveness and position

99. To which the Chosen One comes—Garden of Eternity
May God bless him whenever a gleam shines

100. Upon another gleam or thunder upon thunder