Editing Druze (section)

=== Pact of Time Custodian ===
The Pact of Time Custodian (''{{Transliteration|ar|Mithāq Walī al-zamān}}'') is considered the entrance to the Druze religion, and they believe that all Druze in their past lives have signed this Charter, and Druze believe that this Charter embodies with human souls after death.

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I rely on our Moula Al-Hakim the lonely God, the individual, the eternal, who is out of couples and numbers, (someone) the son of (someone) has approved recognition enjoined on himself and on his soul, in a healthy of his mind and his body, permissibility aversive is obedient and not forced, to repudiate from all creeds, articles and all religions and beliefs on the differences varieties, and he does not know something except obedience of almighty Moulana Al-Hakim, and obedience is worship and that it does not engage in worship anyone ever attended or wait, and that he had handed his soul and his body and his money and all he owns to almighty Maulana Al-Hakim.<ref name="epistles of wisdom">{{cite book|author=Ḥamza ibn ʻAli ibn Aḥmad and Baha'a El-Din |title=The Druze holy book Epistles of Wisdom |page=47 |chapter=Elmithaq |url=http://www.christoph-heger.de/epistles_wisdom_1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023204805/http://www.christoph-heger.de/epistles_wisdom_1.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-23 |url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2011|publisher=[[Christoph Heger]]}}</ref>{{clarify|reason=This is not a valid English sentence. It likely needs manual re-translation from its source, or a different source already translated into English.|date=May 2022}}
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The Druze also use a similar formula, called al-'ahd, when one is initiated into the ʻUqqāl.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hanna Batatu|title=Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics|date=2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4584-2|pages=15–16|quote=I&nbsp;... son of&nbsp;... being sane of spirit and body and duly qualified, attest on my soul, without compulsion or constraint, that I renounce all the different cults, religions, and creeds and acknowledge nothing other than obedience to our Lord al-Hakim, revered be his name, and obedience is worship; that in his worship I associate no past, present, or future being; that I commit my soul, my body, my property, and my offspring&nbsp;... to our Lord al-Hakim&nbsp;... and accept all his decrees, be they in my favour or against me&nbsp;... He who attests that there is in heaven no adored god and on the earth no living imam other than our Lord al-Hakim&nbsp;... belongs to the triumphant muwahhidin [unitarians]. Signed&nbsp;... in the year&nbsp;... of the slave of our Lord&nbsp;... Hamzah bin 'Ali bin Ahmad, the guide of those who respond [to the divine call] and the avenger on the polytheists with the sword of our Lord.}}<!--|access-date=6 January 2015--></ref>