أهلا بطرس من إمام مدته

من بحر علم فائض بحكمته

Welcome, Peter, from his imam whose term

From a sea of overflowing knowledge with its wisdom

من لم يزل مشمراً عن ساقه

لله في طاعته وخدمته

Who has never stopped rolling up his sleeves

For God in his obedience and service

معجبا من سائل قد جاءه

محولقا محسبلا من حرقته

Admiring the questioner who came to him

Scratching, confused, from his burning

قال امرؤ أعتق مملوكا له

لعفو ربي وابتغاء جنته

A man said, "I freed a slave of mine

For my Lord's pardon and seeking His paradise."

فأوجبوا عليه في اعتاقه

لعبده المعتق كل قيمته

So they obliged upon him for freeing

His freed slave the full value

واوجبوا لآخر كنصفه

قصته في العتق مثل قصته

And obliged upon another half of it

His story of freeing is like his story

فقلت للسائل وهو ذو ذكا

يدرك ما القيته بفطنته

So I said to the questioner, who is of intelligence

He realizes what I have cast with his wit

لا تعجبن فانها قضية

جرت على قانونها وشرعته

Do not wonder, for it is a case

That has proceeded according to its law and legitimacy

هذا فتى لم يملك العبد الذي

اعتقه الا ببضع امته

This is a young man who did not own the slave whom

He freed except with some of his nation

كان له مولى سواه فرضى

بجعل عبده صداق زوجته

He had another master, so he was content

To make his slave the dowry of his wife

ففسخت نكاحه زوجته

من قبل أن يمسها ببضعته

So his wife annulled their marriage

Before he touches her with his intimacy

فأوجب الشرع على سيدها

ارجاع ما أصدقها بذمته

So the law obligated upon her master

To return what he has pledged to her responsibility

وكان قد أتلفه بعتقه

فوجبت قيمته في ذمته

And he had destroyed it by freeing him

So its value became obligated in his responsibility

للمالك الأول إلا أنه

قد جاد للعبد بملك مهجته

To the first owner, except that he

Had generosity for the slave with possession of his inclination

باذنه له بجعل نفسه

ملكا له يصرفها في شهوته

Permitting him to make himself

A possession for him to dispose of in his desire

فصارت القيمة للعبد فخذ

حقيقة الحكم واصل علته

So the value became for the slave. Take

The truth of the ruling and origin of its cause

وما على المعتق حيف أجره

في معتق أعتقه بقيمته

And there is no injustice upon the emancipator

In an emancipator who emancipated with its value

ولم يسلم غيرها في عتقه

فلا تلم ولا تضق من فعلته

And did not pay anything else for his emancipation

So do not blame or be stingy of his deed

وزوجة الآخر لم تفسخ ولم

تأت بأمر موجب لفرقته

And the other one's wife did not annul and did not

Come with a matter warranting their separation

طلقها قبل المسيس فقضى

بنصف ما أصدق في منكوحته

He divorced her before consummation, so he ruled

With half of what he pledged for his married

والحمد لله الجواب هكذا

وربنا أعلمنا بصحته

And praise be to God, the answer is such

And our Lord has taught us of its correctness