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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_9
✨Continue to maintain a #kindly attitude towards them so that they might feel attached to you. The fact is that the real happiness of the administrators and their most pleasant comfort lies in establishing justice in the state and maintaining affectionate relations with the people. Their #sincerity of feeling is expressed in the love and regard they show to you, on which alone depends the #safety of the administrators.
Your advice to the army will be of no avail, unless and until you show #affection to both men and officers, in order that they might not regard the #Government as an oppressive burden or contribute to its downfall.
✨Continue to satisfy their needs and praise them over and over again for what services they have rendered. Such an attitude, God willing will inspire the brave to braver actions and induce the timid to deeds of bravery.
✨Try to enter into the #feelings of others and do not foist the mistake of one over another and do not grudge dispensing appropriate rewards. See to it, you do not show favours to one who has done nothing but merely counts on his family position; and do not withhold proper rewards from one who has done #great #deeds simply because he holds a low position in life.
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✨Continue to maintain a #kindly attitude towards them so that they might feel attached to you. The fact is that the real happiness of the administrators and their most pleasant comfort lies in establishing justice in the state and maintaining affectionate relations with the people. Their #sincerity of feeling is expressed in the love and regard they show to you, on which alone depends the #safety of the administrators.
Your advice to the army will be of no avail, unless and until you show #affection to both men and officers, in order that they might not regard the #Government as an oppressive burden or contribute to its downfall.
✨Continue to satisfy their needs and praise them over and over again for what services they have rendered. Such an attitude, God willing will inspire the brave to braver actions and induce the timid to deeds of bravery.
✨Try to enter into the #feelings of others and do not foist the mistake of one over another and do not grudge dispensing appropriate rewards. See to it, you do not show favours to one who has done nothing but merely counts on his family position; and do not withhold proper rewards from one who has done #great #deeds simply because he holds a low position in life.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_10
The Real Guidance
✨Turn to #God and to His prophet for #guidance whenever you feel uncertain as to what you have to do. There is the commandment of God delivered to those people who He wishes to guide aright: “O people of the #Faith! Obey God and obey His #prophet and those from among you who hold authority over you. And refer to God and His prophet whenever there is difference of opinion among you.” (4:59)
✨To turn to God is in reality to consult the Book of God; and to turn to the prophet is to follow his universally accepted traditions.
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The Real Guidance
✨Turn to #God and to His prophet for #guidance whenever you feel uncertain as to what you have to do. There is the commandment of God delivered to those people who He wishes to guide aright: “O people of the #Faith! Obey God and obey His #prophet and those from among you who hold authority over you. And refer to God and His prophet whenever there is difference of opinion among you.” (4:59)
✨To turn to God is in reality to consult the Book of God; and to turn to the prophet is to follow his universally accepted traditions.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_11
Chief #Justice
✨Select as your Chief Justice from the people, one who is by far the #best among them – one who is not obsessed with domestic worries, one who cannot be intimidated, one who does not err to often, one who does not turn back from a right path once he finds it, one who is not centered or avaricious, one who will not decide before knowing full facts, one who will weigh with care every attendant doubt and pronounce a clear #verdict after taking everything into full consideration, one who will not grow restive over the arguments of advocates and who will examine with patience every new disclosure of fact and who will be strictly impartial in his #decision , one who flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position. But it is not easy to find such men.
✨Once you have selected the right man for the #office , pay him handsomely enough, to let him live in comfort and in keeping with his position, enough to keep him above temptations. Give him a position in your court so high none can even #dream of coveting it and so high that neither back-biting nor intrigue can touch him.
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Chief #Justice
✨Select as your Chief Justice from the people, one who is by far the #best among them – one who is not obsessed with domestic worries, one who cannot be intimidated, one who does not err to often, one who does not turn back from a right path once he finds it, one who is not centered or avaricious, one who will not decide before knowing full facts, one who will weigh with care every attendant doubt and pronounce a clear #verdict after taking everything into full consideration, one who will not grow restive over the arguments of advocates and who will examine with patience every new disclosure of fact and who will be strictly impartial in his #decision , one who flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position. But it is not easy to find such men.
✨Once you have selected the right man for the #office , pay him handsomely enough, to let him live in comfort and in keeping with his position, enough to keep him above temptations. Give him a position in your court so high none can even #dream of coveting it and so high that neither back-biting nor intrigue can touch him.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_12
Subordinate #Judiciary
✨Beware! The utmost carefulness is to be exercised in its selection: for it is this #high #office which adventurous self-seekers aspire to secure and exploit in their selfish interests. After the selection of your chief judge, give #careful consideration to the selection of other #officers .
✨Confirm them in their appointments after approved apprenticeship and probation. Never select #men for #responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that might lead to #injustice and corruption.
Of these, select for #higher posts, men of experience, men firm in #faith and belonging to #good #families. Such men will not fall an #easy prey to temptations and will discharge their duties with an eye on the abiding good of others. Increase their salaries to give them a contented #life .
A contented living is a help to self-purification. They will not feel the urge to tax the earnings of their subordinates for their own upkeep.
✨They will then have no excuse either to go against your instructions or misappropriate state funds.
Keep a watch over them without their #knowledge .
✨Perchance they may develop #true #honesty and true concern for the public #welfare . But whenever any of them is accused of dishonesty and the #guilt is confirmed by the report of your #secret service, then regard this as a sufficient to convict him. Let the punishment be corporal and let that be dealt in the #public at an appointed place of degradation.
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Subordinate #Judiciary
✨Beware! The utmost carefulness is to be exercised in its selection: for it is this #high #office which adventurous self-seekers aspire to secure and exploit in their selfish interests. After the selection of your chief judge, give #careful consideration to the selection of other #officers .
✨Confirm them in their appointments after approved apprenticeship and probation. Never select #men for #responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that might lead to #injustice and corruption.
Of these, select for #higher posts, men of experience, men firm in #faith and belonging to #good #families. Such men will not fall an #easy prey to temptations and will discharge their duties with an eye on the abiding good of others. Increase their salaries to give them a contented #life .
A contented living is a help to self-purification. They will not feel the urge to tax the earnings of their subordinates for their own upkeep.
✨They will then have no excuse either to go against your instructions or misappropriate state funds.
Keep a watch over them without their #knowledge .
✨Perchance they may develop #true #honesty and true concern for the public #welfare . But whenever any of them is accused of dishonesty and the #guilt is confirmed by the report of your #secret service, then regard this as a sufficient to convict him. Let the punishment be corporal and let that be dealt in the #public at an appointed place of degradation.
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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.
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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.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_19
Aloofness not Desirable
✨Alongside the observance of all that I have said, bear one thing in mind. Never, for any length of #time , keep yourself aloof from the #people , for to do so is to keep oneself #ignorant of their affairs. It develops in the #ruler a wrong perspective and renders him unable to distinguish between what is important and what is not, between #right and #wrong , and between #truth and #falsehood .
✨The ruler is after all #human , and he cannot form a correct view of anything which is out of sight.
✨There is no distinctive sign attached to truth which may enable one to distinguish between the different varieties of truth and falsehood. The fact is that you must be one of two things. Either you are just or unjust. If you are # just, then you will not keep yourself away from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But, if you are #unjust , the people themselves will keep way from you.
✨What virtue is there in your keeping aloof? At all events aloofness is not desirable, especially when it is your #duty to attend to the needs of the people. Complaints of oppression by your officers or petitions for justice should not prove irksome to you.
Make this #clear to yourself that those immediately about and around you, will like to exploit their #position to covet what belongs to others and commit acts of #injustice . Suppress such a tendency in them.
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Aloofness not Desirable
✨Alongside the observance of all that I have said, bear one thing in mind. Never, for any length of #time , keep yourself aloof from the #people , for to do so is to keep oneself #ignorant of their affairs. It develops in the #ruler a wrong perspective and renders him unable to distinguish between what is important and what is not, between #right and #wrong , and between #truth and #falsehood .
✨The ruler is after all #human , and he cannot form a correct view of anything which is out of sight.
✨There is no distinctive sign attached to truth which may enable one to distinguish between the different varieties of truth and falsehood. The fact is that you must be one of two things. Either you are just or unjust. If you are # just, then you will not keep yourself away from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But, if you are #unjust , the people themselves will keep way from you.
✨What virtue is there in your keeping aloof? At all events aloofness is not desirable, especially when it is your #duty to attend to the needs of the people. Complaints of oppression by your officers or petitions for justice should not prove irksome to you.
Make this #clear to yourself that those immediately about and around you, will like to exploit their #position to covet what belongs to others and commit acts of #injustice . Suppress such a tendency in them.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_21
Peace And Treaties
✨Bear in mind that you do not throw away the offer of #peace which your #enemy may himself make. Accept it, for that will please God. Peace is a source of #comfort to the #army , it reduces your worries and promotes order in the# state .
✨But Beware! Be on your guard when the peace is signed for, certain types of enemies propose terms of peace just to lull you into a sense of #security only to attack you again when you are off your guard. So you should exercise the utmost vigilance on your part, and place no undue #faith in their protestations.
✨But, if under the peace #treaty you have accepted any obligations, discharge those #obligations scrupulously. It is a #trust and must be faithfully upheld and whenever you have promised anything, keep it with all the strength that you command, for whatever differences of #opinion might exist on other matters, there is nothing so noble as the fulfilment of a #promise.
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Peace And Treaties
✨Bear in mind that you do not throw away the offer of #peace which your #enemy may himself make. Accept it, for that will please God. Peace is a source of #comfort to the #army , it reduces your worries and promotes order in the# state .
✨But Beware! Be on your guard when the peace is signed for, certain types of enemies propose terms of peace just to lull you into a sense of #security only to attack you again when you are off your guard. So you should exercise the utmost vigilance on your part, and place no undue #faith in their protestations.
✨But, if under the peace #treaty you have accepted any obligations, discharge those #obligations scrupulously. It is a #trust and must be faithfully upheld and whenever you have promised anything, keep it with all the strength that you command, for whatever differences of #opinion might exist on other matters, there is nothing so noble as the fulfilment of a #promise.
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#Part_23
✨Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more #harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The #blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of #Judgment it is this #crime for which one will have to answer first. So, beware! Do not $wish to build the strength of your #state on blood for, it is this blood which ultimately weakens the state and passes it into other hands. Before me and my #God no excuse for willful killing can be entertained.
✨#Murder is a crime which is punishable by death. If on any account the corporal punishment dealt by the state for any lesser crime results in the death of the guilty, let not the prestige of the state stand in any way of the deceased relations claiming compensation.
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✨Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more #harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The #blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of #Judgment it is this #crime for which one will have to answer first. So, beware! Do not $wish to build the strength of your #state on blood for, it is this blood which ultimately weakens the state and passes it into other hands. Before me and my #God no excuse for willful killing can be entertained.
✨#Murder is a crime which is punishable by death. If on any account the corporal punishment dealt by the state for any lesser crime results in the death of the guilty, let not the prestige of the state stand in any way of the deceased relations claiming compensation.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_24
Last Instructions
✨Do not make haste to do a thing before its time, nor put it off when the #right moment arrives. Do not insist on doing a wrong thing, nor show slackness in rectifying a #wrong thing. Perform everything in its proper time, and let everything occupy its #proper place.
✨When the people as a whole agree upon a thing, do not impose your own will on them and do not neglect to discharge the responsibility that rests on you in consequence. For, the #eyes of the #people will be on you and you are answerable for whatever you do to them. The slightest dereliction of #duty will bring its own retribution.
Keep your #anger under #control and keep your hands and tongue in check. Whenever you fall into anger, try to restrain yourself or else you will simply increase your worries.
✨It is imperative on you to study carefully the principles which have inspired just and #good #rulers who have gone before you. Give close thought to the example of our prophet, his traditions, and the commandments of the Holy #Quran and whatever you might have assimilated from my own way of dealing with things.
✨Endeavor to the #best of your ability to carry out the instructions which I have given you here and which you have solemnly undertaken to follow. By means of this order, I enjoin on you not to succumb to the prompting of your own #heart or to turn away from the discharge of duties entrusted to you.
I seek the #refuge of the might of the #Almighty and of His limitless sphere of blessings, and invite you to pray with me that He may give us together the grace willingly to surrender our will to His will, and to enable us to acquit ourselves before Him and His creation, so that #mankind might cherish our #memory and our #work survive.
✨I seek of God the culmination of his blessings and #pray that He may grant you and me His grace and the honor of martyrdom in His cause. Verily, we have to return to Him. I invoke His #blessings on the Prophet of God and his pure progeny.
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Last Instructions
✨Do not make haste to do a thing before its time, nor put it off when the #right moment arrives. Do not insist on doing a wrong thing, nor show slackness in rectifying a #wrong thing. Perform everything in its proper time, and let everything occupy its #proper place.
✨When the people as a whole agree upon a thing, do not impose your own will on them and do not neglect to discharge the responsibility that rests on you in consequence. For, the #eyes of the #people will be on you and you are answerable for whatever you do to them. The slightest dereliction of #duty will bring its own retribution.
Keep your #anger under #control and keep your hands and tongue in check. Whenever you fall into anger, try to restrain yourself or else you will simply increase your worries.
✨It is imperative on you to study carefully the principles which have inspired just and #good #rulers who have gone before you. Give close thought to the example of our prophet, his traditions, and the commandments of the Holy #Quran and whatever you might have assimilated from my own way of dealing with things.
✨Endeavor to the #best of your ability to carry out the instructions which I have given you here and which you have solemnly undertaken to follow. By means of this order, I enjoin on you not to succumb to the prompting of your own #heart or to turn away from the discharge of duties entrusted to you.
I seek the #refuge of the might of the #Almighty and of His limitless sphere of blessings, and invite you to pray with me that He may give us together the grace willingly to surrender our will to His will, and to enable us to acquit ourselves before Him and His creation, so that #mankind might cherish our #memory and our #work survive.
✨I seek of God the culmination of his blessings and #pray that He may grant you and me His grace and the honor of martyrdom in His cause. Verily, we have to return to Him. I invoke His #blessings on the Prophet of God and his pure progeny.
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💠#Malik_al_Ashtar was one of the especial companions of #Imam_Ali a.s and one of the powerful leaders of Iraq. He was one of the commanders of the army of Imam 'Ali (a) who was forethoughtful in politics and strong in battle. He participated in the Battle of Jamal and the Battle of Siffin and eventually he was appointed by Imam 'Ali (pbuh) as #governor_general in #Egypt. However, he was martyred before arriving to Egypt.
✨The famous treaty of Malik al-Ashtar is a #letter that Imam 'Ali wrote to him while he was in Egypt.
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✨The famous treaty of Malik al-Ashtar is a #letter that Imam 'Ali wrote to him while he was in Egypt.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
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💢The Army
✨Be particularly mindful of the welfare of those in the army who in your opinion, are staunchly #faithful to their #God and the prophet and loyal to their chief, and who in the hour of passion can restrain themselves and listen coolly to sensible remonstrance, and who can succor the weak and smite the strong, whom violent provocation will not throw into violent temper and who will not falter at any stage.
✨Keep yourself in close contact with the families of established reputation and integrity with a glorious past, and draw to yourself men #brave and upright in character, #generous and benevolent in disposition; for such are the salt of society.
✨Care for them with the tenderness with which you care for your children, and do not talk before them of any #good that you might have done to them, nor disregard any expression of affection which they show in return, for such conduct inspires loyalty, devotion and goodwill. Attend to every little of their wants not resting content with what general help that you might have given to them, for sometimes, timely attention to a little want of theirs brings them immense relief. Surely these #people will not forget you in your own hour of need.
It behooves you to select for your Commander-in-Chief one who imposes on himself as a duty, the task of rendering help to his men, and who can excel in #kindness every other officer who has to attend to the needs of the men under him, and look after their families when they are away from their homes; so much so, that the entire #army should feel united in their joys and in their sorrows. The unity of purpose will give them added strength against the enemy.
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💢The Army
✨Be particularly mindful of the welfare of those in the army who in your opinion, are staunchly #faithful to their #God and the prophet and loyal to their chief, and who in the hour of passion can restrain themselves and listen coolly to sensible remonstrance, and who can succor the weak and smite the strong, whom violent provocation will not throw into violent temper and who will not falter at any stage.
✨Keep yourself in close contact with the families of established reputation and integrity with a glorious past, and draw to yourself men #brave and upright in character, #generous and benevolent in disposition; for such are the salt of society.
✨Care for them with the tenderness with which you care for your children, and do not talk before them of any #good that you might have done to them, nor disregard any expression of affection which they show in return, for such conduct inspires loyalty, devotion and goodwill. Attend to every little of their wants not resting content with what general help that you might have given to them, for sometimes, timely attention to a little want of theirs brings them immense relief. Surely these #people will not forget you in your own hour of need.
It behooves you to select for your Commander-in-Chief one who imposes on himself as a duty, the task of rendering help to his men, and who can excel in #kindness every other officer who has to attend to the needs of the men under him, and look after their families when they are away from their homes; so much so, that the entire #army should feel united in their joys and in their sorrows. The unity of purpose will give them added strength against the enemy.
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✨Continue to maintain a #kindly attitude towards them so that they might feel attached to you. The fact is that the real happiness of the administrators and their most pleasant comfort lies in establishing justice in the state and maintaining affectionate relations with the people. Their #sincerity of feeling is expressed in the love and regard they show to you, on which alone depends the #safety of the administrators.
Your advice to the army will be of no avail, unless and until you show #affection to both men and officers, in order that they might not regard the #Government as an oppressive burden or contribute to its downfall.
✨Continue to satisfy their needs and praise them over and over again for what services they have rendered. Such an attitude, God willing will inspire the brave to braver actions and induce the timid to deeds of bravery.
✨Try to enter into the #feelings of others and do not foist the mistake of one over another and do not grudge dispensing appropriate rewards. See to it, you do not show favours to one who has done nothing but merely counts on his family position; and do not withhold proper rewards from one who has done #great #deeds simply because he holds a low position in life.
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✨Continue to maintain a #kindly attitude towards them so that they might feel attached to you. The fact is that the real happiness of the administrators and their most pleasant comfort lies in establishing justice in the state and maintaining affectionate relations with the people. Their #sincerity of feeling is expressed in the love and regard they show to you, on which alone depends the #safety of the administrators.
Your advice to the army will be of no avail, unless and until you show #affection to both men and officers, in order that they might not regard the #Government as an oppressive burden or contribute to its downfall.
✨Continue to satisfy their needs and praise them over and over again for what services they have rendered. Such an attitude, God willing will inspire the brave to braver actions and induce the timid to deeds of bravery.
✨Try to enter into the #feelings of others and do not foist the mistake of one over another and do not grudge dispensing appropriate rewards. See to it, you do not show favours to one who has done nothing but merely counts on his family position; and do not withhold proper rewards from one who has done #great #deeds simply because he holds a low position in life.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
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The Real Guidance
✨Turn to #God and to His prophet for #guidance whenever you feel uncertain as to what you have to do. There is the commandment of God delivered to those people who He wishes to guide aright: “O people of the #Faith! Obey God and obey His #prophet and those from among you who hold authority over you. And refer to God and His prophet whenever there is difference of opinion among you.” (4:59)
✨To turn to God is in reality to consult the Book of God; and to turn to the prophet is to follow his universally accepted traditions.
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The Real Guidance
✨Turn to #God and to His prophet for #guidance whenever you feel uncertain as to what you have to do. There is the commandment of God delivered to those people who He wishes to guide aright: “O people of the #Faith! Obey God and obey His #prophet and those from among you who hold authority over you. And refer to God and His prophet whenever there is difference of opinion among you.” (4:59)
✨To turn to God is in reality to consult the Book of God; and to turn to the prophet is to follow his universally accepted traditions.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_11
Chief #Justice
✨Select as your Chief Justice from the people, one who is by far the #best among them – one who is not obsessed with domestic worries, one who cannot be intimidated, one who does not err to often, one who does not turn back from a right path once he finds it, one who is not centered or avaricious, one who will not decide before knowing full facts, one who will weigh with care every attendant doubt and pronounce a clear #verdict after taking everything into full consideration, one who will not grow restive over the arguments of advocates and who will examine with patience every new disclosure of fact and who will be strictly impartial in his #decision , one who flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position. But it is not easy to find such men.
✨Once you have selected the right man for the #office , pay him handsomely enough, to let him live in comfort and in keeping with his position, enough to keep him above temptations. Give him a position in your court so high none can even #dream of coveting it and so high that neither back-biting nor intrigue can touch him.
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#part_11
Chief #Justice
✨Select as your Chief Justice from the people, one who is by far the #best among them – one who is not obsessed with domestic worries, one who cannot be intimidated, one who does not err to often, one who does not turn back from a right path once he finds it, one who is not centered or avaricious, one who will not decide before knowing full facts, one who will weigh with care every attendant doubt and pronounce a clear #verdict after taking everything into full consideration, one who will not grow restive over the arguments of advocates and who will examine with patience every new disclosure of fact and who will be strictly impartial in his #decision , one who flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position. But it is not easy to find such men.
✨Once you have selected the right man for the #office , pay him handsomely enough, to let him live in comfort and in keeping with his position, enough to keep him above temptations. Give him a position in your court so high none can even #dream of coveting it and so high that neither back-biting nor intrigue can touch him.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#part_12
Subordinate #Judiciary
✨Beware! The utmost carefulness is to be exercised in its selection: for it is this #high #office which adventurous self-seekers aspire to secure and exploit in their selfish interests. After the selection of your chief judge, give #careful consideration to the selection of other #officers .
✨Confirm them in their appointments after approved apprenticeship and probation. Never select #men for #responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that might lead to #injustice and corruption.
Of these, select for #higher posts, men of experience, men firm in #faith and belonging to #good #families. Such men will not fall an #easy prey to temptations and will discharge their duties with an eye on the abiding good of others. Increase their salaries to give them a contented #life .
A contented living is a help to self-purification. They will not feel the urge to tax the earnings of their subordinates for their own upkeep.
✨They will then have no excuse either to go against your instructions or misappropriate state funds.
Keep a watch over them without their #knowledge .
✨Perchance they may develop #true #honesty and true concern for the public #welfare . But whenever any of them is accused of dishonesty and the #guilt is confirmed by the report of your #secret service, then regard this as a sufficient to convict him. Let the punishment be corporal and let that be dealt in the #public at an appointed place of degradation.
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#part_12
Subordinate #Judiciary
✨Beware! The utmost carefulness is to be exercised in its selection: for it is this #high #office which adventurous self-seekers aspire to secure and exploit in their selfish interests. After the selection of your chief judge, give #careful consideration to the selection of other #officers .
✨Confirm them in their appointments after approved apprenticeship and probation. Never select #men for #responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that might lead to #injustice and corruption.
Of these, select for #higher posts, men of experience, men firm in #faith and belonging to #good #families. Such men will not fall an #easy prey to temptations and will discharge their duties with an eye on the abiding good of others. Increase their salaries to give them a contented #life .
A contented living is a help to self-purification. They will not feel the urge to tax the earnings of their subordinates for their own upkeep.
✨They will then have no excuse either to go against your instructions or misappropriate state funds.
Keep a watch over them without their #knowledge .
✨Perchance they may develop #true #honesty and true concern for the public #welfare . But whenever any of them is accused of dishonesty and the #guilt is confirmed by the report of your #secret service, then regard this as a sufficient to convict him. Let the punishment be corporal and let that be dealt in the #public at an appointed place of degradation.
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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.
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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.
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