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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) The Continuity of State Deliver at the battle of siffin So now, Allah, the Glorified, has, by giving me the authority, have created the right you owe to me, and I owe you like what you owe me. As right is the most vast in description but the most narrow in practice.

It does not accrue to any person unless it accrues against him also, and right does not accrue against a person unless it also accrues in his favour. Then, he the Glorified made of his rights, rights for some people on others. He made them so as to equate with one another and some of them entail some other rights and some rights don’t become valid except by some others.

The greatest of these rights that Allah, the Glorified, has made obligatory is the right of the ruler over the ruled and the right of the ruled over the ruler. The ruled cannot prosper unless the rulers are sound, while the rulers cannot be sound unless the ruled are sincer.

If the ruled discharge the rights of the ruler and the ruler discharges their rights, then justice becomes mightly among them, criterion of justice become clear consequently time will improve, the continuance of govern-ment will be expected, and the hopes of enemies disappointed. But if the ruled gain sway over the ruler, or the ruler prejudiced the ruled, then disagreement crops up in every direction sings of inequity appear.

Then desires are acted upon, the Allah’s com-mands are counteracted, diseases of spirits become numerous and there is no hesitation in disregarding even great rights, nor in committing big wrongs. In such circumstances virtuous humili-ated while vicious are honoured.

No person, however great his position in the matter of right, is above being helped to carry on the obligations placed on him by Allah, and no man, however small he may be regarded by others, and however humble he may appear before the eyes, is less than rendering help or being helped.

Here, one of Imam’s companions replied to him by a long speech where he praised him much and mentioned his own listening to him and obeying him, imam said this prominent saying: In the view of virtuous people, the worst characteristic of rulers is that it may be thought about them that they love haughtiness, and their affairs may be taken to be based on pride. I would really hate that you may absorb, That I love high praises or to hear eulogies.