1 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: when praise is to be offered, how shall I complete the praise of Thee, O Wise One? Let Thy servant declare it earnestly to the friend who is such as I, thus through Thy Righteousness within us to offer friendly help to us, so that Thy grace may draw near us through Thy Good Mind within the soul.

2 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how, in pleasing Him, may we serve the Supreme One of the better world; yea, how to serve that Lord who may grant us the blessings of His grace, and who will seek for grateful requitals at our hands; for He, bountiful as He is through the Righteous Order, will hold off ruin from us all, Guardian as He is for both the worlds, O Wise One, and Friend.

3 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: Who was the first creator of the Righteous Order within the world? Who gave the recurring sun and stars their undeviating way? Who established that whereby the moon waxes, and whereby she wanes, save Thee? These things, O Great Creator, would I know, and others likewise still.

4 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: who from beneath hath sustained the earth and the clouds above that they do not fall? Who made the waters and the plants? Who yoked to the wind the storm-clouds, the swift and fleetest two? Who, O Great Creator, is the inspirer of the good thoughts within our souls?

5 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: who, as a skilful artisan, hath made the lights and the darkness? Who, as thus skilful, hath made sleep and the zest of waking hours? Who spread the dawns, the noontides and midnight, monitors to discerning man, duty's true guides?

6 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright these things which I shall speak forth, if they are truly thus. Doth the Piety which we cherish in reality increase the sacred orderliness within our actions? To these Thy true saints hath she given the Realm through the Good Mind. For whom hast Thou made the Mother-kine, the producer of joy?

7 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: who fashioned Piety, the beloved, together with Thy Sovereign Power? Who, through his guiding wisdom, hath made the son revering the father? Who made him beloved? With questions such as these, so abundant, O Wise One, I press Thee, O bountiful One, Maker of all!

8 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright, that I may ponder these which are Thy revelations, O Wise One, and the words which were asked of Thee by Thy Good Mind within us, and that whereby we may attain, through Thine Order, to this life's perfection. Yea, how may my soul with joyfulness increase in goodness? Let it thus be.

9 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how shall I hallow to myself the Faith of Thy people, which the Lord of the beneficent kingdom hath taught me, even the admonitions of Thy word, taught me through Thy lofty Sovereignty and Power, in accord with Thine Order and Thy Good Mind?

10 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright that holy Faith which is of all things best, and which, going on hand in hand with Thy people, shall further my lands in Righteousness, Thine order, and, through the words of Piety, shall render actions just. The prayers of mine understanding will seek for Thee, O God!

11 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how to these Thy worshippers may Piety once again and evermore approach, to them to whom, O Lord, Thy Faith is uttered? Yea, I beseech of Thee to tell me this, I who am known to Thee as the foremost of Thy servants; all false gods, with their polluted worshippers, I look upon with the hatred of my spirit.

12 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: who is the righteous one in that regard in which I ask Thee my question? And who is evil? For which is the wicked? Or which is himself the foremost wicked one? And the vile man who stands against me in this gain of Thy blessing, wherefore is he not held and believed to be the sinner that he is?

13 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how shall I banish this Satan, the Lie, from us hence to those beneath who are filled with rebellion? The friends of Righteousness, as it lives in Thy saints, gain no light from their teachings, nor have they loved the questions which Thy Good Mind asks in the soul!

14 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how shall I deliver that Lie into the two hands of Thine Order, as it lives in our hosts, to cast her down to death through the words of Thy doctrine, and to send mighty destruction among her evil believers, to keep those deceitful and harsh oppressors from reaching their fell aims?

15 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright. If through Thy Righteousness within our souls Thou hast the power over this for my protection, when the two hosts shall meet in hate, as they strive for those vows which Thou dost desire to maintain, how, O Wise One, and to which of both wilt Thou give the victory?

16 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright, who smites with victory in the protection of all who exist, and for the sake of, and by means of, Thy doctrine? Yea, clearly reveal a lord having power to save us for both lives. Then let our Obedience, with Thy Good Mind, draw near to that leader, O Wise One, yea, to him to whomsoever Thou shalt wish that he should come.

17 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: how, O Wise One, shall I proceed to that great conference with Thee, to that consummation of Thine own, when my spoken wish shall be effected unto me, the desire to be in the chieftainship, supported by the hope of Weal and Immortality, those saving gifts of Thy grace, and by that holy word of Thine which fully guides our way through Righteousness within?

18 And, having gained Thine audience and Thine Order's sacred chieftainship, then I ask of Thee, O God, and tell me aright: how shall I acquire that Thy Righteous Order's prize, ten costly mares mated with a stallion, and with them the camel, those signs of honour and blessing for Thy chief? I ask Thee for these gifts as offerings for Thy sake. For it was told me, for the sake of our Welfare in our salvation and of our Immortality, in what manner Thou shalt give to these Thy conquering hosts both of these Thy gifts of grace.

19 This I ask Thee, O God! tell me aright: in the case of the recreant who does not give this honoured gift to him who hath earned it; yea, who does not give it to this veracious tiller of the earth, to him who in no respect shows favour to the Lie, even to the correct speaker of Thy word, what shall be his sentence at the first, now at this time, and because of this false dealing? I ask it, knowing well his doom at last.

20 And how as to our deluded foes? Have worshippers of demons e'er reigned as worthy kings? This verily I ask of Thee: those who fight for these who act amiss, have they well reigned, by whom the Karpan and the Usij gave the sacred Kine to Rapine, whence, too, the Kavian in persistent strength has flourished? And these have also never given us tribal wealth nor blessings, nor for the Kine have they brought waters to the fields for the sake of the Righteous Order in our hosts, to further on their growth and welfare!