Praise to Him who by it has brought the far ones near, and made the foreigner a relative and friend! We are assembled here to attend to a matter decreed and fated of Allah, and whose beginning, middle and end he has connected with the most happy and auspicious circumstances.

This matter is the blessed covenant of marriage.

Inshullah, may it be completed and perfected, and praise to Allah, the Great Completer! Amen! "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

He is my portion and sufficiency.

May Allah pray for his pure prophet!" This is the marriage contract between the person named A.son of -- -- of the village of -- -- in the district of -- -- in Lebanon, and his betrothed named B.the daughter of -- -- of the village of -- -- she being a maiden of full and marriageable age, with no legal obstacles to her marriage.