Preamble
This Charter is published pursuant to the law and custom governing the Instruments of the North Gate and the Architecture of Peace series, under the Mālikī Sharia Hiba protocol (1786) as recorded at 8 Stat. 484 (1836), and upon the duties of amāna (trusteeship) attaching to every custodian of a public instrument.
Two principles of that law govern everything below:
- Hiba is gratuitous. A gift with consideration (hiba bi-l-ʿiwaḍ) is construed as an exchange. The status declared by these instruments is perfected by Allah and made good against the whole world; it is not sold, licensed, metered, or conditioned. Lā ʿiwaḍ — no consideration attaches to the record.
- Ajr is permissible. Wages for labor are lawful and honorable. What may be charged for is the work — formatting, printing, mailing, certification, registration, teaching — never the status, the record, or the recognition.
The Consular Economic Attaché acts as issuing authority of the form and custodian of the archive, and binds this office and its services to the clauses below.
Clause I — The instruments are free
The bare text of the Nationality Declaration, Name Correction, Proclamation and Publication, and every successor instrument of the North Gate, is free to every heir of the land, to read, to copy by hand, to transcribe, and to download, without account, registration, payment, or permission. Access is open at tribunal.empireofmorocco.org and through every copy the instruments themselves authorize.
Clause II — Recognition is never sold
No person shall be charged for the validity, recognition, acceptance, registration of status, or “activation” of any instrument. The instruments are self-executing: validity derives from the truth of the status declared, per Lock 3 (non-contingency — the perfection of status is not contingent on any third party’s act). Any schedule that prices recognition itself is void by this Charter.
Clause III — Fees attach only to labor
Charges are permissible solely for services of labor (ajr), and every charge must be: (a) for a disclosed service distinct from the instrument text; (b) cost-based and scheduled in advance; (c) never a precondition of access to the record. Permissible services include, without limitation: formatted exemplars and certificates, printing and mailing, certification and archival registration, education and instruction, and the sale of the Architecture of Peace series as scholarship, in print and in paid digital download. Sunk labor already invested in producing these assets is not billable to beneficiaries; it is recovered forward, through the pricing of labor-services, endowment, or grant.
Clause IV — The endowed library
The instruments and the Architecture of Peace series are held as waqf al-kutub — an endowed library. Reading the record is endowed and free in perpetuity. No paywall may be raised on the record; no gate, login, mailing-list requirement, or beneficiary registry may be interposed between the heir and the text. The source materials of record are served free; free reading of the volumes is delivered through the endowed reading room (/read) as it is prepared; the volumes themselves are sold as scholarship under Clause III.
Clause V — No gate, no registry
Possession of the text confers nothing by itself — execution by a true heir is what perfects — and therefore no access control is required or permitted on the free layer. The office maintains no beneficiary registry and collects no personal data on the free site. Verification exists only inside paid certification and registration services, where identity must be established for the certificate itself.
Clause VI — Integrity of the text
Every distributed copy of an instrument shall carry: its edition identifier (e.g., Nationality-Declaration-TEMPLATE-HARMONIZED-2026-08-23); the SHA-256 integrity hash of the plain-text file of record, published at the free site; and the notice that the two protective lines — the self-executing character of the instrument and its self-authentication under Article 4 (ʿAlāma) — must not be struck, paraphrased, or re-ordered. Errata, when issued, are published free at the same site under the certified re-issue model.
Clause VII — The endower's courtesy (Ikrām al-Wāqif)
Gifts to the endowment are hiba — gratuitous, without consideration, and are never the price of anything. The office's thanks to its endowers is thawāb ʿalā al-hiba — a return-courtesy, valid precisely because it was never stipulated as consideration. Accordingly: every courtesy of the endowment is store-side only — recognition on the public Endowment Ledger (entered only with the giver's consent, and no beneficiary registry), printed matter, and courtesy credits redeemable against the labor-objects of the store. No gift purchases the record; no courtesy grants record access, validity, or recognition; no courtesy is owed, and any courtesy may be withdrawn. Reading the record is endowed and free to all, endower or not. Any schedule that conditions record access, status, or recognition upon a gift is void by this Charter, as an exchange mislabeled as a gift (hiba bi-l-ʿiwaḍ).
Certification
Executed and certified this ______ day of ____________________, 2026, under the witness architecture of record — Ursa Major, Polaris, Terra Mater.
Countersigned:
/yasapa-al (John Darrell-el), MD, MBA
Consular Economic Attaché, Empire of Morocco