Freedom Paper (azād nāma)

Type

margin

Hand

1718 hand

Translation

Freedom Papers (azād nāmcha) are as such:
Praise be to Allah who protects the necks of the righteous ones from the fires [of hell] and provisions them with the choicest of virtues and strengths, and greetings and peace be upon his prophet and his kin and progeny. And then, the cause/reason for penning these legal [shar’iyya] words is that in accordance with the content of the Hadith “whosoever frees a believing slave, Allah will free all of his members, and their members, from the fire [of hell]”, ‘Izzat Ābādī Yusuf Khān freed and released from the yoke of bondage all the six-dāng members of one slave named so-and-so Bahman ?? for forty years?, to achieve closeness [qurba] to Allah and seek his contentment on the day of judgment as with other matters ??? and he [the slave] has control [ikhtiyār] to go wherever he desires. Written? Such-and-such month 1137 AH / 1725 CE

Transcription

آزاد نامچه اینست الحمد لله الذی اعتق الرقاب المحسنین فی/من النار و رزقهم نعم البرار و القرار و الصلوة و السلام علی نبیه و اله و اولاده و بعد باعث بر تحریر این کلمات شرعیه اینست که بنابر مضمون من اعتق رقبه مومنه اعتق الله کل عضو منها عضوا من النار آزاد گردانید و از قید بندها رهانید عزت آبادی؟ یوسف خان تمامت و جملگی شش دانگ عضو یکنفر غلام فلان بهمین نام گشادها؟ برای چهل ساله قربة الی الله و طلبا برضایته قضا الیوم کسایر الاقرار و مر؟ او راست؟ اختیار که بهرجا که خواهد رود [امضا؟] شهر فلان ۱۱۳۷

CE Date

1725

Folio

2r

Genre

Freedom Paper (azād nāma)

Hijri Date

1137

Identifier

4