1. O judges of God's servants, judgement
And piety to God is upon you -

2. To accept testimony from women,
And reject the testimony of others.

3. Consider each loose, wanton one,
And reject the testimony of the brazen;

4. Do not accept the testimony of the immodest.
I wish the immodest had a town of their own

5. Where no Muslim would pray to God,
With no one else mixing among them

6. In some distant, empty place.
May God destroy them all, and keep

7. Every cheek rouged, every brow marked.
Tying their belts over humps from straying,

8. Laden beasts wrapped in saddlebags.
May God bare the teeth of every

9. Glowering fool, foretelling harm,
A snarling, tile-nosed, gangling calf

10. Ever miserable and wretched,
By my life, vulgar, uncouth women

11. Are the essence of evil, not modesty -
Not those who dwell in palaces, generous ladies

12. Who don't wander around in the dark!