因此，如果在已有哈里发的情况下向哈里发们（复数）效忠，那么这种效忠是无效的，除了第一个订立效忠契约的人之外，此后的人不能再与之订立效忠契约。所讨论的情况是：如果哈里发职位被设立给两位哈里发，即大多数有影响力的人同时推举了两位哈里发，并且两人各自的效忠契约都是合法订立的。那么这两份契约都被取消，此事必须交还穆斯林。如果他们为其中一人确立了效忠，那么该效忠要重新订立，而不是对其先前情况的确认。如果他们为他们以外的人确立了效忠，那么就与那个人订立契约。因此，此事是全体穆斯林的权利，而不是那些参与争夺的人的权利。
如果设立了两位哈里发，而大多数在统治和哈里发事务中有影响力的人站在其中一位一边，是他们推举了此人，而少数人则支持另一位，那么效忠应归于大多数有影响力的人在统治事务中所推举的那一位。无论他是第一个、第二个还是第三个被推举，都是如此，因为当大多数有影响力的人推举他时，他就被视为合法的哈里发。其他人必须向他效忠，以维护哈里发职位的统一；否则穆斯林将与他作战，因为哈里发职位是通过大多数穆斯林的效忠而确立的。这样，他便成为所有穆斯林都必须服从的哈里发，而此后再推举另一人便成为哈拉姆（禁止）的事。
Because this is the case if a pledge is given to Khulafaa when there exists a Khalifah; so the pledge is not valid except for the first one whose pledge was contracted, and whoever comes afterwards could not have the pledge contracted to him. The case under discussion is that if the Khilafah is established for two Khalifahs when the majority of the influential people elected two Khalifahs at the same time, and the pledge of each of them was contracted legally. So the two contracts are cancelled and the matter must be returned to the Muslims; if they established the pledge for one of them then it is contracted anew, not as a confirmation to his previous case. And if they established it to other than them, then it is contracted (to that other person). Thus the matter is a right to all Muslims not to persons who enter in a race for it. And if two Khulafaa were established, and the majority of the influential people in the affairs of ruling and Khilafah sided with one of them and it was they who elected him, while the minority was with the other, then the pledge would be for the one who the majority of the influential people in the matters of ruling elected. (This is so) whether he was elected first, second or third, because he is considered the legal Khalifah when the majority of the influential people elected him. The others must make a pledge to him for the sake of unity of the Khilafah; otherwise the Muslims will fight him because the Khilafah is contracted by the pledge of the majority of the Muslims. He thus becomes a Khalifah who must be obeyed by all Muslims and it becomes haram to elect another person.
然而,就该裁决的实际情况而言,通常掌握统治事务的有影响力的人,大多集中在首都,因为主要的统治事务都在那里进行。因此,如果某个省或若干省的居民推举了另一位哈里发,而首都的人先向首都那位哈里发效忠宣誓,那么哈里发之位归于他,因为首都人民的宣誓表明,大多数有影响力的人站在他一边,所以在这种情况下,先行的宣誓有效。但如果省里的哈里发先被推举,则优先给予那位拥有大多数有影响力人士支持的人,因为省里的人先行宣誓,削弱了有影响力的人大多在首都这一推断。无论如何,不允许同时保留一位以上的哈里发,即使这会导致与未获哈里发之位契约的一方发生战争。
However, the reality of the ruling is that the majority of the influential people, in whose hands lays the affairs of ruling, are usually found in the capital because that is where the main affairs of ruling are conducted. So if the residents of a province or provinces elected another Khalifah and the pledge to the one who is in the capital was given first, then the Khilafah is for him because the pledge given by the people of the capital is a connotation which indicates that the majority of the influential people are on his side, and the pledge in this case is for the first. But in the case that the Khalifah in the provinces was elected first, the preference is given to the one who has the majority of influential people on his side because the precedence of the people of the provinces in giving the pledge weakens the connotation that the majority of the influential people are present in the capital. In any case, it is not allowed to retain more than one Khalifah, even if this leads to fighting against the one who did not have the Khilafah contracted to him.