💢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_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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💢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.
🔜To be continued...
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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.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#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.
🔜To be continued...
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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.
🔜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_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_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.
🔜To be continued...
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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.
🔜To be continued...
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💢Imam Ali's #letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#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.
🔜To be continued...
💠 @rahyafte_en
#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.
🔜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...
@rahyafte_en
#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...
@rahyafte_en
💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
🔜To be continued...
@rahyafte_en
#Part_15
Trade and Industry
✨Treat #businessmen and artisans well, and #advise others to do likewise. Some of them live in towns, while some move from place to place with their wares and tools earning their living by manual labor. Trade and #industry are the real sources of #profit to the #state and the suppliers of #consumer goods.
✨While the general #public is not inclined to bear the strain, those engaged in these professions take the trouble to collect commodities from far and near, from land and across the sea, from mountains and forests and naturally derive benefits.
✨It is this class of peace loving people from whom no disturbance need be feared. They love peace and order, indeed they are incapable of creating disorder. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this #class , and inquire into their condition.
✨But bear in mind that a #good many of them are intensely #greedy and are inured to #bad dealings. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a #high #price and this is most harmful to the public. It is a blot on the name of the ruler not to fight this evil. Prevent them from hoarding, for the prophet of #God had prohibited it.
✨See to it, that trade is carried on with the utmost #ease, that the scales are evenly held and that prices are so fixed that neither the seller nor the #buyer is put to a loss. If in spite of your warning, anyone should go against your commands and commit the #crime of hoarding, then deal him appropriately with a severe punishment.
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💢Imam Ali's letter to Malik al-Ashtar
#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
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#Part_17
Open Conferences
✨Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in an open #conference and conscious of the divine presence there, have a heart-to-heart talk with them, and let none from your armed guard or civil officers or members of the #Police or the Intelligence Department be by your side, so that the representatives of the #poor might #state their grievances fearlessly and without reserve.
✨For I have heard the prophet of God say that no nation or society, in which the #strong do not discharge their $duty to the #weak , will occupy a #high position.
✨Bear with composure any strong language which they may use, and do not get annoyed if they cannot state their case lucidly. Even so, #God will open for you his door of blessings and rewards. Whatever you can give to them, give it ungrudgingly and whatever you cannot afford to give, make that clear to them in utmost #sincerity .
✨There are certain things which call for prompt action. One of them is correspondence regarding the redress of grievances, which your heedless #staff have been unable to tackle. See to it that #petitions or applications that are submitted for your consideration, are brought to your #notice without any delay, however much your #officers might try to intercede them. Dispose of the day’s #work that very day, for the coming #day will bring with it its own tasks.
🔜To be continued...
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