Chapter: A Comprehensive Discourse on the Mukātab

If the master were to insert a clause saying, “Whenever you do such-and-such, I reserve the right to revoke your kitābah,” he would in fact acquire no power to dissolve the contract, and the stipulation itself would be null and void. The same holds true if he were to add, “Should you become unable to pay, you revert to slavery”; such a condition has no legal standing.