إذا أوصى لمواليه وله موال أعتقهم ومواليه موال أعتقوه
If someone bequeaths to his mawali while having both people he freed and people who freed him.
Mawla can describe different directions of a legal relationship. The mere presence of the word in a bequest does not settle every beneficiary; its intended reference must be identified using context and the relevant rules of wording.
The interpretive concern is not to declare both groups automatically entitled without evidence. The need to determine one intended sense connects the earlier discussion of homonymous expressions with the present distinction between literal and figurative use.