[relying on nothing but what you heard from] 1 the two adversaries, [and you judged against me by your own desire, contrary to what has come] 2 in the law.
[3]And the conditions [clarified in] 3 the wisdom and the speech of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, His glory is magnificent, when he said: When two adversaries are present before you, treat them with gentleness until their fear subsides, and you hear their discourse and understand their speech without terrorizing or disturbing them; then, whoever's offense becomes manifest, and he confesses of his own accord [a confession of choice without compulsion] 4 , take two just witnesses against him, hold him [by the hand of] 5 the law, and bring him [upon] 6 the truth, and do not threaten either of them to confess by beating or by imprisonment, and do not take either [of them] 7 by coercion, because this sect, God has lifted coercion [from it] 8 .