17. The right of your subjects through authority is that you should know that you have been given authority upon them due to your power and they have been made subjects through their weakness and humility. Thence, nothing should be preferred to those who saved you from their evil through their humility and weakness, became your subjects, and became submissive to your judgments. They do not possess power and authority due to which they can protect themselves from you. They cannot find a supporter against your power except God through mercy, prudence, and clemency.
You should also be basically thankful for God Who has given you such power and predominance over them through which you have controlled others. God will increase His graces to those who thank Him.
All power belongs to God.
18. The right of your subjects through knowledge is that you should know that God made you a caretaker over them only through the knowledge He has given you and His storehouses, which He has opened up to you. If you do well the missions that God has chosen you for, treat them as same as the treatment of the merciful caretaker who respects his master in the affairs of the slaves and the clement steadfast one who always offers money for the needy ones, then you will be on the right way faithfully, otherwise you will be regarded as betrayal, unjust to the creatures, and expose yourself to encounter God’s seizing His graces and power from you.
19. The right of your subject through matrimonial contract, namely the wife, is that you know that God has made her repose, a comfort, a delight, and a shelter for you. Each of you should thank God for the other and realizes that the other is God’s favor toward him. It is obligatory to care for God’s favors well and to honor her and treat her gently. Yet, her right toward you is more incumbent and she should obey you in every matter that you like or detest except in acts of disobedience to God. She should enjoy the rights of mercy and amicability. You should care for her in the through the consummation of the lust that should be consummated. That is surely great.
All power belongs to God.
20. The right of your slave is that you should know that he is the creature of your Lord and your flesh and blood. You own him, but you did not make him; God made him. You did not create his hearing and sight, nor do you provide him with his sustenance; on the contrary, God gives you the sufficiency for that. Then He subjugated him to you, entrusted him to you, and deposited him with you so that you may be safeguarded by the good you give to him and feed him what you eat and clothe him what you garb. Do not overburden him. If you dislike him, replace him, but do not torment a creature of God.
All power belongs to God.