The external perimeter of the portal was restored in 2005 and instead of the previous lettering strip, a new one was written. Its script is called «flowering kufic». The text is a fragment from the Koran. The inscription was arranged in 2005 based on a sketch by the craftsman from Samarkand Oumar Mirzo (A. Ergashev). The inscription was restored without historical grounds. The inscription begins in the lower part of the right pylon ( a horizontal cartouche).
Allah, the Almighty said: «In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Most Beneficent [Allah]! Has taught [you mankind] the Qur'an [by His Mercy]. He created man. He taught him eloquent speech. The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses [exactly] calculated with measured out stages for each [for reckoning , etc.]. And the herbs [or stars] and the trees both prostrate. And the heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance. In order that you may not transgress [due] balance. And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient. And the earth He has put for the creatures. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit - stalks [enclosing dates]. And also corn, with [its] leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinns and men] deny?
He created man [Adam] from sounding clay like the clay of pottery. And the jinns did He create from a smokeless flame of fire. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinns and men] deny? [He is] the Lord of the two Easts [places of sunrise during early summer and early winter] and the Lord of the two wests [places of sunset during early summer and early winter]. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [ jinns and men ] deny? He has let loosed the two seas [the salt water and the sweet] meeting together. Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinns and men] deny? Out of them both come out pearl and coral. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both ( jinns and men ) deny?» Allah, the Most Great, has said the truth.
You can read more about the inscriptions on the buildings of the memorial ensemble in the book-album “Samarkand. Shakhi-Zinda” series “Architectural epigraphy of Uzbekistan”.