2.2 修订后的文本(《沙希法》)
2.2 The revised text (of the Sahifa)
如果我们依据这两段先前的文本,从中选取最明确、最精确的表述,并补充其中一段提到的重要表述,例如:“信士们互为盟友和保护者,排斥其他人”,或“除非被杀者的血亲接受(血金)”,或补充语境所要求的内容,以消除可能产生的任何错误印象,例如用“(一名信士)不得支持一名不信者对抗一名信士”代替“他不支持一名不信者对抗一名信士”,那么我们就能得到如下修订后的文本:
If we were to rely upon these two previous texts and were to select from them the most explicit and most precise expressions, and if we were to add important expressions that came mentioned in one of them, like for example: “The believers are (allies and protectors) of one another to the exclusion of the people” or “Unless the blood heir of the one killed is satisfied (with blood money)” or add that which the context dictates, so as to remove any erroneous impression that could arise, like: “(A believer) shall not support a disbeliever against a believer” instead of “He does not support a disbeliever against a believer”, if we were to do that, we would attain the following revised and edited text: