§ The ruled hearts are the stores of their ruler...

§ The ruled hearts are the stores of their ruler; so whatever he places in them of justice or injustice will find it there. § The subjects’ love and faithfulness do not manifest ex-cept through their feeling that the state is not a heavy burden over their shoulders. § When the ruler changes, time changes too. § The discontent of prominent people can be forgiven with the content of the common people. § If Allah becomes angry on a nation, its prices become high and its evil men dominate it.

§ But I am worried that silly and profligate people control the affairs of the entire community, with the result they grab the funds of Allah as their own property and enslave his slaves. § The scholars are the rulers of kings; oppression is the last period of kings’ rule. § Knowledge is a religion which is acted upon. § It is an hour – at night – no slave of Allah prays for some-thing except granted to him unless he is a tax-collector, an intelligence man, or a police officer.

§ Three men favour money: The sea trader, the holder of authority, and the one accepting bribe while taking decisions. § If the shepherd is a wolf, then who protects the sheep?! § Allah may curse those who advise good but they thems-elves neglect it, and those who detest others from evil but they themselves act upon it. § Know that you are living at a time in which those who speak about right are few, the tongue is blunt to utter truth, and those who stick to the right are humiliated.

§ The weak is in my view strong till I restore (his) right while the strong is in my view a weak till I take the right back from him. § Shortly a time will come for people no one will be taken as associate to the rulers except informants and no one is regarded as witty but the profligate, and no one will be regarded as weak except the fair person. Previous…