another crime is that you have squandered our assets ruined our crops and lowered the prices of our houses and our properties through your bad treatment until the yields of the houses were in the eyes of the wealthy and the rich and the common people and the common folk and until they fought you with every trick and spent their money in every way and until ubayd allah ibn alhasan said a saying that he sent as a proverb and it became an argument and harm to us. that is because he said the yield of the house is a musk and the yield of the palm trees is sufficient but the yield is the yield of the crops and the two crops. and this only brought us upon ourselves because of our good collection and our patience with your bad judgment. and you cut it off from us while it is upon you in general and you twist it to us while it is upon you. so the yields of the houses became like that (even though it is more expensive
وجرم آخر، هو أنكم أهلكتم أصول أموالنا، وأخربتم غلاتنا، وحططتم بسوء معاملتكم أثمان دورنا ومستغلاتنا، حتى غلات الدور من أعين المياسير ٤ وأهل الثروة، ومن أعين العوام والحشوة، وحتى تدافعوكم بكل حيلة، وصرفوا أموالهم في كل وجه، وحتى قال عبيد الله بن الحسن ٥ قولا أرسله مثلا، وعاد علينا حجة وضررا. وذلك أنه قال غلة الدار مسكة وغلة النخل كفاف ٦ ، وإنما الغلة غلة الزرع والنسولتين ٧ . وإنما جر ذلك علينا حسن اقتضائنا، وصبرنا على سوء قضائكم. وأنتم تقطعونها علينا وهي عليكم مجملة، وتلووننا بها وهي عليكم حالة. فصارت كذلك غلات الدور (وإن كانت أكثر ثمنا