If you made him feel obliged to you...

If you made him feel obliged to you, how could you be sure that you yourself would not be in his position [in the future], because your behaviour would show that you had not deposited that alms for your own benefit. Had you felt that it was for your own benefit, you would not have demanded obligations from others. And there is no power save in God.

As for the right of the sacrificial offering (hadyy) is that it should be offered with pure inten- tion for your Lord, seeking His mercy and acceptance, and not for the eyes of the onlookers. When you sac-rifice according to this [standard], you will not be a showy and exhibiting person, but will only he seeking [the pleasure] of God.

And know that God is sought through what is con-venient [to you] , not through what is difficult; as He Himself has made the rules easier for His creatures, and has not intended to make them suffer hardship. Also humbleness is better than grandiosity for you, because pomposity and extravagance are the lot of self-important persons. And as for humbleness and modesty, there is no pretension or waste in them, because they are natural and are present in the human character.

And there is no power, save in God. C. Rights Of Leaders As for the right of your ruler (sultan) is that you should know that you have been made a trial (fitnah) for him and that he is on test through you by the power he has been granted by God over you. And you should sincerely wish him well without quarelling with him, because his hands are strongly upon you and [by opposing him] you would be a cause of your own destruction and also of his destruction.

And beseech his pleasure with humbleness and courtesy as much as is useful in averting his harm from you and does not interfere with your religion; and ask the help of God in this task.

And do not indulge in opposition to, or hatred of him because if you did so, you would be ungrateful to him [because if, as a result of this hatred, he was unjust to you he would be disgraced before God] and ungrateful to yourself [because you made yourself a target for his tyranny], and thus you would be counted as his helper against yourself and his partner in whatever he did against you. And there is no power, save in God.