فأمر راجع إلى كتب الأحكام السّلطانيّة وهي مسطورة هنالك وليست من غرض كتابنا وإنّما نتكلّم فيها من حيث طبيعة الملك الّذي نحن بصدد الكلام فيه
All (these legal problems) belong to the books on administration (al-Ahkam as-sultaniyah) and are written down in them. It is not the purpose of this book to deal with them. We discuss the subject only as it has to do with the nature of royal authority, in the discussion of which we are presently engaged