1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Ijazah; |
2 | The Absolute, Final and Unquestionable Authority; |
3 | The one from whom all covenants, edicts, actions and rights of use are derived; |
4 | And the seventy-fifth name of Allah, the Infinite, the Unique, the All Knowing. |
5 | As a man cannot claim to be the owner of his own land, home or animals but custodian; |
6 | The highest form of right a man may be given is the right of Divine Use. |
7 | These are the gifts that Allah has given to you of your flesh and your mind. |
8 | It is why no man may claim another as slave, without declaring himself a heretic and a thief before the Divine Creator. |
9 | As a man cannot claim to be the owner of the wisdom of Allah; |
10 | The highest form of right a man may be given to the word of the Divine Creator is the right to teach the Way of Islam and protect these sacred words. |
11 | Thus the most respect and highest authority in Islam is the teacher not the merchant or a king. |
12 | Blessed are the teachers who honor these words and the law of Islam. |