You should not speak to anyone in his session nor speak ill of anyone with him.

You should not speak to anyone in his session nor speak ill of anyone with him. If anyone ever speaks ill of him in your presence, you should defend him. You should conceal his faults and make manifest his virtues. You should not sit with him in enmity or show hostility toward him in friendship. If you do all of this, God's angels will give witness for you that you went straight to him and learned his knowledge for God's sake, not for the sake of the people.

In the other version it is followed by: property is that you should obey him and not disobey him, unless obeying him would displease God, for there ( 83 ) can be no obedience to a creature when it is disobedience to God. you are his slave In the other version it continues: they have been made subjects through their weakness and your strength. Hence it is incumbent upon you to act with justice toward them and to be like a compassionate father toward them.

You should forgive them their ignorance and not hurry them to punishment and you should thank God for the power over them which He has given to you. that they do not have In the other version it continues: in teaching the people, not treating them roughly or annoying them, then God will increase His bounty toward you.

But if you withhold your knowledge from people or treat them roughly when they seek knowledge from you, then it will be God's right to deprive you of the knowledge and its splendor and to make you fall from your place in people's heart. your wife In the other version it is followed by: you must treat her with compassion, since she is your prisoner whom you feed and clothe. If she is ignorant, you should pardon her.

as you are God created him in your shelter if you fail in the other version it continues with: And there is no power but in God. by freeing you from slavery by freeing him In the other version it is followed by: God has made your freeing him a means of access to Him and a veil against the Fire. Your immediate reward is to inherit from him- if he does not have any relatives-as a compensation for the property you have spent for him, and your ultimate reward is the Garden.

of Hell ( 84 ) In the other version it continues: reminding you of your Lord, calling you to your good fortune, and helping you to accomplish what God has made obligatory upon you. So thank him for that just as you thank one who does good to you.