💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_20
✨Make a #rule of your conduct never to give even a small piece of land to any of your relations. That will prevent them from causing harm to the interests of others and save you from courting the disapprobation of both #God and man.
✨Deal justice squarely, regardless of whether one is a #relation or not. If any of your relations or companions violates the #law , mete out the punishment prescribed by law, however #painful it might be to you personally, for it will be all to the #good of the #state . If at any time people suspect, that you have been #unjust to them in any respect, disclose your mind to them and remove their suspicions. In this way, your mind will get attuned to the sense of #justice and #people will begin to #love you.
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#Part_20
✨Make a #rule of your conduct never to give even a small piece of land to any of your relations. That will prevent them from causing harm to the interests of others and save you from courting the disapprobation of both #God and man.
✨Deal justice squarely, regardless of whether one is a #relation or not. If any of your relations or companions violates the #law , mete out the punishment prescribed by law, however #painful it might be to you personally, for it will be all to the #good of the #state . If at any time people suspect, that you have been #unjust to them in any respect, disclose your mind to them and remove their suspicions. In this way, your mind will get attuned to the sense of #justice and #people will begin to #love you.
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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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#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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#Part_4
🔰#Wisdom and #Love
Each religion, school of thought, movement or revolution is made up of two elements: #wisdom and
#love.One is #light and the other is #motion. One gives common sense and understanding, the other,
strength, enthusiasm and motion. In the words of .Alexis Carrel, 'Wisdom is like the lights of a car
which show the way. Love is like the motor which makes it move.' Each is nothing without the
other. A motor, without lights, is blind love, dangerous, tragic and infers death.
In a society, a movement of thought or a revolutionary school of thought, men of letters who are clear thinkers, aware and responsible, show, through their works, that there is a way to come to know a school of thought or a religion. They show that there is a way to give awareness to the people. The responsibility of the people, on the other hand, is to give their spirits and their strength to a movement. They are responsible for giving the starting push.
A movement is like a living body. It thinks with the brain of scholars and gives love through the hearts of its people. If faith, sincerity, love and sacrifice are at a minimum in a society, #people are #responsible. But where correct understanding of a school of thought is at a minimum, where vision, awareness, logical consciousness, deep familiarity with the goals of a school of thought are lacking, where the meaning, purpose and truths of a school of thought are missing, the #scholars are #responsible. Religion, in particular, needs both since religion is a type of lover’s consciousness or #love_of_consciousness.
In #religion,#knowledge and #feelings are not treated as separate entities because they are transformed into understanding and faith by means of common sense and the coming to know something.
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▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati
#Part_4
🔰#Wisdom and #Love
Each religion, school of thought, movement or revolution is made up of two elements: #wisdom and
#love.One is #light and the other is #motion. One gives common sense and understanding, the other,
strength, enthusiasm and motion. In the words of .Alexis Carrel, 'Wisdom is like the lights of a car
which show the way. Love is like the motor which makes it move.' Each is nothing without the
other. A motor, without lights, is blind love, dangerous, tragic and infers death.
In a society, a movement of thought or a revolutionary school of thought, men of letters who are clear thinkers, aware and responsible, show, through their works, that there is a way to come to know a school of thought or a religion. They show that there is a way to give awareness to the people. The responsibility of the people, on the other hand, is to give their spirits and their strength to a movement. They are responsible for giving the starting push.
A movement is like a living body. It thinks with the brain of scholars and gives love through the hearts of its people. If faith, sincerity, love and sacrifice are at a minimum in a society, #people are #responsible. But where correct understanding of a school of thought is at a minimum, where vision, awareness, logical consciousness, deep familiarity with the goals of a school of thought are lacking, where the meaning, purpose and truths of a school of thought are missing, the #scholars are #responsible. Religion, in particular, needs both since religion is a type of lover’s consciousness or #love_of_consciousness.
In #religion,#knowledge and #feelings are not treated as separate entities because they are transformed into understanding and faith by means of common sense and the coming to know something.
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_8
💢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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#Part_8
💢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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#Part_13
Revenue Administration
✨Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the #prosperity of those who pay the #revenue to the state, for on their prosperity depends the prosperity of others, particularly of the masses. Indeed, the #state exists on its revenue.
✨You should regard the #proper upkeep of the #land in cultivation as of greater importance than the collection of revenue, for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited #hardship on the cultivator and ruins the state.
The rule of such a person does not last long. If the cultivators ask for a reduction in their land #tax for having suffered from epidemics, #drought, excessive #rainfall, soil infertility, #floods impairing the fertility of the land or the cause of #crop damage, then reduce the tax accordingly, so that their condition may improve.
✨Do not mind the loss of revenue on that account, for that will return to you one day manifold in the hour of greater prosperity of the land and enable you to improve the condition of your towns and to raise the #prestige of your state. You will be the object of universal praise. The #people will believe in your sense of #justice. The confidence which they will place in you in consequence will prove your strength, as they will be found ready to share your burdens.
✨ You may settle down on the land any number of people, but discontent will overtake them if the land is not improved. The cause of the cultivator’s ruin is the #rulers who are bent feverishly on accumulating #wealth at all costs, out of the fear that their rule might not last long. Such are the people who do not learn from examples or precedents.
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#Part_13
Revenue Administration
✨Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the #prosperity of those who pay the #revenue to the state, for on their prosperity depends the prosperity of others, particularly of the masses. Indeed, the #state exists on its revenue.
✨You should regard the #proper upkeep of the #land in cultivation as of greater importance than the collection of revenue, for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited #hardship on the cultivator and ruins the state.
The rule of such a person does not last long. If the cultivators ask for a reduction in their land #tax for having suffered from epidemics, #drought, excessive #rainfall, soil infertility, #floods impairing the fertility of the land or the cause of #crop damage, then reduce the tax accordingly, so that their condition may improve.
✨Do not mind the loss of revenue on that account, for that will return to you one day manifold in the hour of greater prosperity of the land and enable you to improve the condition of your towns and to raise the #prestige of your state. You will be the object of universal praise. The #people will believe in your sense of #justice. The confidence which they will place in you in consequence will prove your strength, as they will be found ready to share your burdens.
✨ You may settle down on the land any number of people, but discontent will overtake them if the land is not improved. The cause of the cultivator’s ruin is the #rulers who are bent feverishly on accumulating #wealth at all costs, out of the fear that their rule might not last long. Such are the people who do not learn from examples or precedents.
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Clerical Establishment
✨Keep an eye on your establishment and on your scribes, select the #best among them for your confidential correspondence such among these, as possess #high character and deserve your full #confidence, men who may not exploit their privileged position to go against you, who may not grow neglectful of their duties, who in the drafting of treaties may not succumb to external #temptation and harm your #interests, or fail to render you proper assistance and to save you from trouble, who in carrying out their duties can realize their serious responsibilities, for he who does not realize his own responsibilities can hardly appraise the responsibilities of others.
✨Do not select #men for such work merely on the strength of your first impressions of your affection or good #faith , for as a matter of fact, the pretensions of a good many who are really devoid of #honesty and #good breeding, may cheat even the intelligence of rulers. Selection should be made after due probation, which should be the test of righteousness.
✨In making direct appointments from people, see to it that those selected possess influence with the #people and who #enjoy the reputation of being honest, for such selection is agreeable to #God and the ruler. For every department of administration, let there be a head, whom no trying task might cause worry and no pressure of #work annoy.
✨Remember, every weakness of any one among your establishment and scribes, which you may overlook, will be written down against you in your scroll of deeds.
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#Part_14
Clerical Establishment
✨Keep an eye on your establishment and on your scribes, select the #best among them for your confidential correspondence such among these, as possess #high character and deserve your full #confidence, men who may not exploit their privileged position to go against you, who may not grow neglectful of their duties, who in the drafting of treaties may not succumb to external #temptation and harm your #interests, or fail to render you proper assistance and to save you from trouble, who in carrying out their duties can realize their serious responsibilities, for he who does not realize his own responsibilities can hardly appraise the responsibilities of others.
✨Do not select #men for such work merely on the strength of your first impressions of your affection or good #faith , for as a matter of fact, the pretensions of a good many who are really devoid of #honesty and #good breeding, may cheat even the intelligence of rulers. Selection should be made after due probation, which should be the test of righteousness.
✨In making direct appointments from people, see to it that those selected possess influence with the #people and who #enjoy the reputation of being honest, for such selection is agreeable to #God and the ruler. For every department of administration, let there be a head, whom no trying task might cause worry and no pressure of #work annoy.
✨Remember, every weakness of any one among your establishment and scribes, which you may overlook, will be written down against you in your scroll of deeds.
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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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Communion with #God
✨Do not forget to set apart the best of your #time for communion with God, although every #moment of yours is for Him only, provided it is spend sincerely in the #service of your #people . The special time that you give to #prayer , is to be devoted to the performances of the prescribed daily prayers. Keep yourself engaged in these prayers both in the #day and in the #night , and to gain perfect communion, do not as far as possible, let your prayers grow tiresome.
✨When you lead in congregational prayer, do not let your prayer be so lengthy as to cause discomfort to the congregation or raise in them the feeling of dislike for it or liquidate its effect, for in the congregation there may be invalids and also those who have to attend pressing affairs of their own.
✨When, on receiving an order to proceed to #Yemen , I asked of the prophet of God, how I should lead the people there in prayer, he said “Perform your prayers even as the weakest among you would do, and set an example of consideration to the #faithful ”.
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#Part_18
Communion with #God
✨Do not forget to set apart the best of your #time for communion with God, although every #moment of yours is for Him only, provided it is spend sincerely in the #service of your #people . The special time that you give to #prayer , is to be devoted to the performances of the prescribed daily prayers. Keep yourself engaged in these prayers both in the #day and in the #night , and to gain perfect communion, do not as far as possible, let your prayers grow tiresome.
✨When you lead in congregational prayer, do not let your prayer be so lengthy as to cause discomfort to the congregation or raise in them the feeling of dislike for it or liquidate its effect, for in the congregation there may be invalids and also those who have to attend pressing affairs of their own.
✨When, on receiving an order to proceed to #Yemen , I asked of the prophet of God, how I should lead the people there in prayer, he said “Perform your prayers even as the weakest among you would do, and set an example of consideration to the #faithful ”.
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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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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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✨Make a #rule of your conduct never to give even a small piece of land to any of your relations. That will prevent them from causing harm to the interests of others and save you from courting the disapprobation of both #God and man.
✨Deal justice squarely, regardless of whether one is a #relation or not. If any of your relations or companions violates the #law , mete out the punishment prescribed by law, however #painful it might be to you personally, for it will be all to the #good of the #state . If at any time people suspect, that you have been #unjust to them in any respect, disclose your mind to them and remove their suspicions. In this way, your mind will get attuned to the sense of #justice and #people will begin to #love you.
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#Part_20
✨Make a #rule of your conduct never to give even a small piece of land to any of your relations. That will prevent them from causing harm to the interests of others and save you from courting the disapprobation of both #God and man.
✨Deal justice squarely, regardless of whether one is a #relation or not. If any of your relations or companions violates the #law , mete out the punishment prescribed by law, however #painful it might be to you personally, for it will be all to the #good of the #state . If at any time people suspect, that you have been #unjust to them in any respect, disclose your mind to them and remove their suspicions. In this way, your mind will get attuned to the sense of #justice and #people will begin to #love you.
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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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#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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☀️ Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):
🍃 #Mahdi (pbuh) is from my progeny, his name is same as mine and his patronymic is (also) same as mine.
He most closely resembles me by way of #manners and appearance,
He will have #occultation and astonishment; such that #people will go astray in it. Prophet (s) said ,
He will fill the #earth with #justice and #equity as it would have been teeming with tyranny and #oppression.”
#ThePromisedSaviour
#12th_Imam...
#Jesus
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🍃 #Mahdi (pbuh) is from my progeny, his name is same as mine and his patronymic is (also) same as mine.
He most closely resembles me by way of #manners and appearance,
He will have #occultation and astonishment; such that #people will go astray in it. Prophet (s) said ,
He will fill the #earth with #justice and #equity as it would have been teeming with tyranny and #oppression.”
#ThePromisedSaviour
#12th_Imam...
#Jesus
📚 Kamaluddin; Vol. 1/287
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_8
💢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.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_8
💢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.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_13
Revenue Administration
✨Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the #prosperity of those who pay the #revenue to the state, for on their prosperity depends the prosperity of others, particularly of the masses. Indeed, the #state exists on its revenue.
✨You should regard the #proper upkeep of the #land in cultivation as of greater importance than the collection of revenue, for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited #hardship on the cultivator and ruins the state.
The rule of such a person does not last long. If the cultivators ask for a reduction in their land #tax for having suffered from epidemics, #drought, excessive #rainfall, soil infertility, #floods impairing the fertility of the land or the cause of #crop damage, then reduce the tax accordingly, so that their condition may improve.
✨Do not mind the loss of revenue on that account, for that will return to you one day manifold in the hour of greater prosperity of the land and enable you to improve the condition of your towns and to raise the #prestige of your state. You will be the object of universal praise. The #people will believe in your sense of #justice. The confidence which they will place in you in consequence will prove your strength, as they will be found ready to share your burdens.
✨ You may settle down on the land any number of people, but discontent will overtake them if the land is not improved. The cause of the cultivator’s ruin is the #rulers who are bent feverishly on accumulating #wealth at all costs, out of the fear that their rule might not last long. Such are the people who do not learn from examples or precedents.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_13
Revenue Administration
✨Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the #prosperity of those who pay the #revenue to the state, for on their prosperity depends the prosperity of others, particularly of the masses. Indeed, the #state exists on its revenue.
✨You should regard the #proper upkeep of the #land in cultivation as of greater importance than the collection of revenue, for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited #hardship on the cultivator and ruins the state.
The rule of such a person does not last long. If the cultivators ask for a reduction in their land #tax for having suffered from epidemics, #drought, excessive #rainfall, soil infertility, #floods impairing the fertility of the land or the cause of #crop damage, then reduce the tax accordingly, so that their condition may improve.
✨Do not mind the loss of revenue on that account, for that will return to you one day manifold in the hour of greater prosperity of the land and enable you to improve the condition of your towns and to raise the #prestige of your state. You will be the object of universal praise. The #people will believe in your sense of #justice. The confidence which they will place in you in consequence will prove your strength, as they will be found ready to share your burdens.
✨ You may settle down on the land any number of people, but discontent will overtake them if the land is not improved. The cause of the cultivator’s ruin is the #rulers who are bent feverishly on accumulating #wealth at all costs, out of the fear that their rule might not last long. Such are the people who do not learn from examples or precedents.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_14
Clerical Establishment
✨Keep an eye on your establishment and on your scribes, select the #best among them for your confidential correspondence such among these, as possess #high character and deserve your full #confidence, men who may not exploit their privileged position to go against you, who may not grow neglectful of their duties, who in the drafting of treaties may not succumb to external #temptation and harm your #interests, or fail to render you proper assistance and to save you from trouble, who in carrying out their duties can realize their serious responsibilities, for he who does not realize his own responsibilities can hardly appraise the responsibilities of others.
✨Do not select #men for such work merely on the strength of your first impressions of your affection or good #faith , for as a matter of fact, the pretensions of a good many who are really devoid of #honesty and #good breeding, may cheat even the intelligence of rulers. Selection should be made after due probation, which should be the test of righteousness.
✨In making direct appointments from people, see to it that those selected possess influence with the #people and who #enjoy the reputation of being honest, for such selection is agreeable to #God and the ruler. For every department of administration, let there be a head, whom no trying task might cause worry and no pressure of #work annoy.
✨Remember, every weakness of any one among your establishment and scribes, which you may overlook, will be written down against you in your scroll of deeds.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_14
Clerical Establishment
✨Keep an eye on your establishment and on your scribes, select the #best among them for your confidential correspondence such among these, as possess #high character and deserve your full #confidence, men who may not exploit their privileged position to go against you, who may not grow neglectful of their duties, who in the drafting of treaties may not succumb to external #temptation and harm your #interests, or fail to render you proper assistance and to save you from trouble, who in carrying out their duties can realize their serious responsibilities, for he who does not realize his own responsibilities can hardly appraise the responsibilities of others.
✨Do not select #men for such work merely on the strength of your first impressions of your affection or good #faith , for as a matter of fact, the pretensions of a good many who are really devoid of #honesty and #good breeding, may cheat even the intelligence of rulers. Selection should be made after due probation, which should be the test of righteousness.
✨In making direct appointments from people, see to it that those selected possess influence with the #people and who #enjoy the reputation of being honest, for such selection is agreeable to #God and the ruler. For every department of administration, let there be a head, whom no trying task might cause worry and no pressure of #work annoy.
✨Remember, every weakness of any one among your establishment and scribes, which you may overlook, will be written down against you in your scroll of deeds.
🔜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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✡️ The Second Caliph and the Jews
1⃣ The long-standing relationship between the #Second_Caliph and the #People_of_the_Book, which dated back to the years before his migration (Hijrah), reached a new turning point during his caliphate.
2⃣ Although the Second Caliph generally prohibited the transmission of the Prophet’s (PBUH) sayings during his rule and reportedly punished violators severely, he allowed #Jews to freely relate historical narratives and accounts.
3⃣ #Kaab_al_Ahbar, a leading Jewish figure from Yemen, embraced Islam during the Second Caliph’s reign and was immediately entrusted with an #Official_Government_Position, after which he began #Narrating_Hadith. In effect, he became one of the principal interpreters endorsed by the ruling establishment.
4⃣ According to Sunni sources, many Companions narrated reports from him, despite the fact that they had personally known and accompanied the Prophet (PBUH), whereas Kaab al-Ahbar had not been a Muslim during the Prophet’s lifetime.
5⃣ #Tamim_al_Dari and #Zayd_ibn_Thabit, two other individuals of Jewish origin, were likewise appointed to official positions during the Second Caliph’s rule.
6⃣ Notably, it was Zayd ibn Thabit who, during the reign of the #First_Caliph and with the approval of the Second Caliph, was assigned responsibility for the #Compilation_of_the_Quran, so that the caliphal establishment would have a Quranic codex to present alongside that of Imam Ali (AS).
7⃣ Another recently converted Jew whose name should be added to this list is #Abdullah_ibn_Salam.
8⃣ Numerous indications praising Jewish traditions and practices can be found, for those who examine the matter closely, in the Second Caliph’s journey to #Palestine and #Greater_Syria, particularly to the city of #Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis).
9⃣ Conversely, #Jews also praised the Second Caliph, claiming that his name appeared in the #Torah and earlier scriptures. Kaab al-Ahbar even asserted that he had found descriptions and characteristics of the Second Caliph in the Torah—flattery that reportedly surprised the Caliph himself.
✅ Jewish Studies Think Tank: 🇮🇷👉 @jscenter
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1⃣ The long-standing relationship between the #Second_Caliph and the #People_of_the_Book, which dated back to the years before his migration (Hijrah), reached a new turning point during his caliphate.
2⃣ Although the Second Caliph generally prohibited the transmission of the Prophet’s (PBUH) sayings during his rule and reportedly punished violators severely, he allowed #Jews to freely relate historical narratives and accounts.
3⃣ #Kaab_al_Ahbar, a leading Jewish figure from Yemen, embraced Islam during the Second Caliph’s reign and was immediately entrusted with an #Official_Government_Position, after which he began #Narrating_Hadith. In effect, he became one of the principal interpreters endorsed by the ruling establishment.
4⃣ According to Sunni sources, many Companions narrated reports from him, despite the fact that they had personally known and accompanied the Prophet (PBUH), whereas Kaab al-Ahbar had not been a Muslim during the Prophet’s lifetime.
5⃣ #Tamim_al_Dari and #Zayd_ibn_Thabit, two other individuals of Jewish origin, were likewise appointed to official positions during the Second Caliph’s rule.
6⃣ Notably, it was Zayd ibn Thabit who, during the reign of the #First_Caliph and with the approval of the Second Caliph, was assigned responsibility for the #Compilation_of_the_Quran, so that the caliphal establishment would have a Quranic codex to present alongside that of Imam Ali (AS).
7⃣ Another recently converted Jew whose name should be added to this list is #Abdullah_ibn_Salam.
8⃣ Numerous indications praising Jewish traditions and practices can be found, for those who examine the matter closely, in the Second Caliph’s journey to #Palestine and #Greater_Syria, particularly to the city of #Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis).
9⃣ Conversely, #Jews also praised the Second Caliph, claiming that his name appeared in the #Torah and earlier scriptures. Kaab al-Ahbar even asserted that he had found descriptions and characteristics of the Second Caliph in the Torah—flattery that reportedly surprised the Caliph himself.
✅ Jewish Studies Think Tank: 🇮🇷👉 @jscenter
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🔸 Was It the People’s Fault—or the Fault of Pharaoh’s Government? 🔸
🔹 Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi 🔹
Consider this verse:
Pharaoh belittled and humiliated his own people, and as a result, they obeyed him and submitted to him. Indeed, Pharaoh’s people were a rebellious and disobedient people.
What is remarkable is that God directs the blame and the sharp edge of criticism toward those who obeyed and followed, rather than toward Pharaoh himself.
God could have said: “Pharaoh was rebellious, tyrannical, or power-hungry.” But instead, He says:
🔹 The roots of obedience to a tyrant are thus traced to the lack of commitment among the people who follow and submit to him.
This is an important point: when it comes to the fate of regimes and governments, the people are presented as the fundamental factor—not the rulers.
The message is that a corrupt ruler rises to power because of corruption within the people, rather than the people becoming corrupt merely because a tyrant has gained power.
In other words:
🔸 This is a precise and thought-provoking analysis. The foundation is not placed in the leader; the foundation is placed in the people.
And the defining quality attributed to the people is not that they are intelligent, clever, or perceptive. Rather, it is their relationship with trust, commitment, loyalty, and keeping their promises.
If a society consists of people who do not honor their commitments, who are not faithful to their word, and who do not stand by what they profess, then such a society creates the conditions for tyrannical and unjust individuals to rise to power.
🔻 Therefore, if you want a nation to reform itself, or if you want those in power to be removed, the first thing you must do is strengthen the roots of commitment and responsible character among the people.
For opposite fāsiq—the one who abandons moral commitment—stand the committed, faithful, and trustworthy person.
✨ If a society is to change, its people must first be cultivated in commitment, loyalty, and trustworthiness.
#People #Responsibility #Commitment #Trustworthiness #SocialReform #Pharaoh #Quran #HaeriShirazi
📌 Source:
https://t.me/haerishirazi/5719
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🔹 Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi 🔹
Consider this verse:
فَاسْتَخَفَّ قَوْمَهُ فَأَطَاعُوهُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمًا فَاسِقِينَ
“So Pharaoh made his people submissive, and they obeyed him. Indeed, they were a rebellious people.”
— Qur’an 43:54
Pharaoh belittled and humiliated his own people, and as a result, they obeyed him and submitted to him. Indeed, Pharaoh’s people were a rebellious and disobedient people.
What is remarkable is that God directs the blame and the sharp edge of criticism toward those who obeyed and followed, rather than toward Pharaoh himself.
God could have said: “Pharaoh was rebellious, tyrannical, or power-hungry.” But instead, He says:
“Indeed, they were a rebellious people.”
🔹 The roots of obedience to a tyrant are thus traced to the lack of commitment among the people who follow and submit to him.
This is an important point: when it comes to the fate of regimes and governments, the people are presented as the fundamental factor—not the rulers.
The message is that a corrupt ruler rises to power because of corruption within the people, rather than the people becoming corrupt merely because a tyrant has gained power.
In other words:
It was the people themselves who were corrupt and disobedient, and that was what enabled someone like Pharaoh to rise to power.
🔸 This is a precise and thought-provoking analysis. The foundation is not placed in the leader; the foundation is placed in the people.
And the defining quality attributed to the people is not that they are intelligent, clever, or perceptive. Rather, it is their relationship with trust, commitment, loyalty, and keeping their promises.
If a society consists of people who do not honor their commitments, who are not faithful to their word, and who do not stand by what they profess, then such a society creates the conditions for tyrannical and unjust individuals to rise to power.
🔻 Therefore, if you want a nation to reform itself, or if you want those in power to be removed, the first thing you must do is strengthen the roots of commitment and responsible character among the people.
For opposite fāsiq—the one who abandons moral commitment—stand the committed, faithful, and trustworthy person.
✨ If a society is to change, its people must first be cultivated in commitment, loyalty, and trustworthiness.
#People #Responsibility #Commitment #Trustworthiness #SocialReform #Pharaoh #Quran #HaeriShirazi
📌 Source:
https://t.me/haerishirazi/5719
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