Fluency is not the thing being bought
It feels wasteful to pay for Arabic when a friend or a colleague speaks it well. But the receiving side is not judging fluency, which it cannot see from where it sits. It is looking for a named translator who has attached a signed statement to the page. That signature is the product. Everything else — the wording, the layout, the care taken — a good speaker may match exactly.
The language Jordan requires
Jordan asks for Arabic, so the record goes into Arabic in full, however tidy your English original looks. A helpful in-house version tends to cover the parts that seemed to matter and skip the rest. An official Arabic translation in Plymouth carries the whole page across, because a desk that meets a gap cannot tell whether the line was blank or simply never written out.
What the signature is doing
The finished page comes with a name, a date and a statement that the Arabic matches the record supplied. Consulates and ministries treat that as their check, which is why the person signing has to be a certified Arabic translator and not whoever happened to be free. It also gives the reader somebody to come back to, and a colleague doing a favour is not placed to be that person.
Per-page cost and turnaround
Cost is £25 for each page of the record, so a short certificate is a small bill and a long file is a predictable one. The wait is 3–5 business days from a clear image, dropping to 48 hours on the express route. Both are worth setting against the cost of a file that comes back, which is measured in weeks rather than in pages.