💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en
#Part_16
The Poor
✨Beware! Fear God when dealing with the #problem of the poor who have none to patronize them, who are forlorn, indigent, #helpless and are greatly torn in mind – victims of the vicissitudes of time. Among them are some who do not question their lot in #life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about seeing alms.
✨For God’s sake, safeguard their #rights , for on you rests the responsibility of protecting their interests.
✨Assign for their uplift a portion of the state exchequer (Bayt al-Mal), wherever they may be, whether close at hand or far away from you. The rights of the two should be #equal in your eye. Do not let any preoccupation slip them from your mind, for no excuse whatsoever for the disregard of their rights will be acceptable to God.
✨Do not treat their interests as of less importance than your own, and never keep them outside the purview of your important considerations, and mark the persons who look down upon them and of whose conditions they keep you in #ignorance .
✨Select from among your officers such men as are meek and God fearing who can keep you properly informed of the condition of the poor. Make such provision for these #poor #people as shall not oblige you to offer an excuse before God on the Day of #Judgment for, it is this section of the people which, more than any other, deserves benevolent treatment.
✨Seek your reward from #God by giving to each of them what is due to him and enjoin on yourself as a sacred #duty the task of meeting the needs of such aged among them as have no independent means of livelihood and are averse to seek alms. The discharge of this duty is what usually proves very trying to rulers, but is very welcome to societies which are gifted with foresight. It is only such societies or nations who truly carry out with equanimity their covenant with God to discharge their duty to the poor.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en
💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en