الرسالة
The Epistle on Legal Theory

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of God, merciful and compassionate

الرسالة
The Epistle on Legal Theory

أخبرنا أبو عبد الله محمد بن إدريس بن العباس بن عثمان بن شافع بن السائب بن عبيد بن عبدِ يزيد بن هاشم بن المطلب بن عبد مناف المطلبيُّ، ابن عم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.

الرسالة
The Epistle on Legal Theory

الحمد لله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض، وجعل الظلمات والنور، ثم الذين كفروا بربهم يعدلون.

«Praise be to God, Who has created the heavens and the earth and made darkness and light. Yet those who do not believe ascribe equals to their Lord.»

الرسالة
The Epistle on Legal Theory

والحمد لله الذي لا يُؤدى شُكر نعمة من نِعَمِهِ؛ إلا بنعمة منه توجب على مؤدي ماضي نعمه بأدائها نعمةً حادثةً، يجب عليه شكره بها.

And praise be to God for Whose acts of grace no one can be thankful save through another act of His grace, which, through its bestowal on one giving thanks for past acts of grace, constitutes a new act of grace for which He must be thanked.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

ولا يبلغ الواصفون كُنه عظمته. الذي هو كما وصف نفسه، وفوق ما يصفه به خلقه.

Those who seek to describe Him do not capture the magnitude of His greatness, He Who is as He has described Himself and is above His creatures’ description of Him.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

أحمده حمداً كما ينبغي لكرم وجهه وعِز جلاله.

I praise Him as befits His honor and sublime glory.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

وأستعينه استعانةَ من لا حول له ولا قوة إلا به.

I, a creature without power or strength save through Him, seek His assistance.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

وأستهديه بهداه الذي لا يضل من أنعم به عليه.

I beseech Him for His guidance, through which none on whom He bestows it goes astray.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

وأستغفره لما أَزلفت وَأَخرت: استغفار من يُقر بعبوديته، ويعلم أنه لا يغفر ذنبه ولا ينجيه منه إلا هو.

I seek His pardon for what I will do and for what I have already done, a pardon for one who affirms his own servitude and who knows that none can forgive his sin or save him, save Him.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، وأن محمداً عبده ورسوله.

I witness that there is no god but God, alone, Who has no partner; and that Muhammad is His servant and Emissary.

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

بعثه والناس صنفان:

God sent Muhammad while people were of two classes:

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

أحدهما: أهل كتاب بدّلوا من أحكامه، وكفروا بالله، فافتعلوا كذبا صاغوه بألسنتهم، فخلطوه بحق الله الذي أَنزل إليهم.

One class comprised the people of scripture, who exchanged His rulings for others and disbelieved in God. They concocted a lie that they fashioned with their tongues, and mixed it together with the truth that God had revealed to them.

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