1. فدونك من جزء الضياء مسائلاً

    بها يلزم الانسان في الحكم يقتل

    So take these questions from a volume of al-Ḍiyāʾ,

    for which a person must, by legal judgment, be put to death:

  2. فقاتل حرّ مؤمن متعمدا

    ومن هو للطهر النبي مضلل

    one who deliberately kills a free believer,

    and whoever declares the pure Prophet misguided,

  3. وجاحد فرض للصلاة وجاحد الز

    كاة وفرض الصوم والصوم أَفضل

    and whoever denies the obligation of prayer, and whoever denies za-

    kat and the obligation of fasting—and fasting is better;

  4. ومن دان باستحلال أَكل لميتة

    بغير اضطرار عند ما هي تؤكل

    and whoever professes that eating carrion is lawful,

    without necessity when it is eaten;

  5. وإن مشرك يزني بمسلمة ومن

    بذي محرم عمداً زنى فيقتل

    and a polytheist who fornicates with a Muslim woman, and whoever

    deliberately fornicates with a forbidden relative—each is put to death.

  6. ومن يزنُ يوماً بالبهيمة من علا

    سما شاهق يرمي وبالسيف يجزل

    And whoever ever fornicates with a beast—from the heights

    of the towering sky he is hurled, and hewn apart with the sword.

  7. ومن قال عند النابرات مشمرا

    أَيا لفلان يا القبائل اقبلوا

    And whoever, amid the outcries, says, girding himself:

    “O, to so-and-so’s aid! O tribes, come forward!”

  8. وذو السحر إِن يصمى فيصمى بسحره

    قصاصاً كذا قال الفقيه المعدل

    And if a sorcerer kills by his magic, he too is put to death,

    in retribution—so said the upright jurist.

  9. ودونك من لم يوجب الحكم قتله

    إِلى أَن يرد التوب بالسيف يقتل

    And here are those whose death the law does not require

    until they refuse repentance; then they are killed by the sword:

  10. فتارك ذي الاسلام بعد بلوغه ال

    ختان ومرتد لشرك مبدل

    thus, a Muslim who, after coming of age, neglects

    circumcision, and an apostate who turns to polytheism;

  11. ومن قال ان المصطفى هو ساحر

    ومن عجم أَو شاعر وهو مقول

    and whoever says the Chosen One is a sorcerer,

    and of non-Arab stock, or a poet—so it is said;

  12. ومن أَنكر القرآن بعد نزوله

    أَو البعض من آي به لا يرتل

    and whoever denies the Qur’an after its revelation,

    or some of the verses within it, which he does not recite in measured tones.

  13. ومما عراه الاختلاف فقائل

    فيقتل والباقوت بالضرب يمهل

    And among matters over which opinions differ, one says:

    “He is put to death”; the others grant him respite with a beating:

  14. فمن لصيام أو صلاة فتارك

    وقد فاتَ وقت وهو عمداً ممهل

    thus, whoever neglects fasting or prayer,

    with its appointed time already past, while he deliberately delays;

  15. ومن شتم الفاروق والشيخ ذا الوَفا

    عتيقاً فقتل أَو فضرب مململ

    and whoever reviles al-Fārūq and the faithful shaykh,

    ʿAtīq: execution, or a beating that makes him writhe.