State document: T-S Ar.20.21
State document T-S Ar.20.21Tags
Description
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and preventing them from fulfilling their religious duties (al-iqāma bi-mūjibāt sharīʿatihim) and from their gatherings. Includes a marāḥim formula (wa-hum yasʾalū min al-marāḥim al-ʿamīma).
Edition: Umrethwala, Yusuf
Translation: Umrethwala, Yusuf (in English)
T-S Ar.20.21 recto
Transcription
Yusuf Umrethwala, unpublished editions (n.p., 2023).Recto
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وقد فسد بذلك نظامهم ويعذر عليهم
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الاقامة بموجبات شريعتهم واختلت
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اجتماعاتهم وهم يسالوا من المراحم العـ[ـميمة]
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ان يشملهم من العدل ما شمل مثله القا[صي]
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والداني والمسلم والذمي وتحسم
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مادة شكواهم بخروج التوقيع العالي الى [
Translation
Yusuf Umrethwala, unpublished translations (n.p., 2023).-
And it affects their order and makes it difficult for them
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to adhere to their tenets of faith and demobilizes
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their congregations. They seek from the utmost generosity
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that they be engulfed with the same generosity that has engulfed the distant
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and the close, and Muslim and dhimmī, and dissipation
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of the root of their grievance by issuing a noble decree towards