If this had not been I would not have insisted on gathering you...

If this had not been I would not have insisted on gathering you, reprehen-ding you, mobilising you and urging you. The Bribed in Judgement O’ (people of) discordant minds and scattered hearts, whose bodies are present but wits are absent. I lead you towards right, but you run away from it like goat’s running away form the howling of a lion. How hard it is for me to generate a light from you to eradicate darkness and uncover justice, or to straighten the curve of truthfulness. O’ my Allah!

Thou knowest that what we had done was not to seek power nor to acquire anything from the vanities of this world. We rather wanted to restore the real signs of Thy religion and to usher prosperity into Thy cities so that the oppressed among Thy slaves might feel safe.

You certainly know that leadership should not be given to a miser as his greed would aim at their wealth, nor be an ignorant as he would estrange them from him with his rudeness, not should be he who deals unjustly with wealth, thus he associates with some except another, nor should he who accepts bribe while taking decisions as he would waste rights. Along with the Oppressed I want you for Allah’s sake but you seek me for your own benefits. O’ people! Help me against yourself (desires).

By Allah I will restore theright of the oppressed from the oppressor and will lead the oppressor from the string of his nose (like an ox) and drag him to the spring of right even though he is reluctant. Money is for People Abdullah ibn Zama’ah who was one of his followers came to Imam to ask for some mony, he said: This money is not mine nor yours! The earning of their hands cannot be for other than their mouths.

A Trust To Al-Ash’ath ibn Qays: Imam’s Governor of Azarbayjan Certainly, your assignment is not a gain for you, but it is a pledge round your neck. It is not for you to be oppressive to a subject; you have in your hands funds of Allah’s to whom belongs Might and Majesty, and you are one of His treasurer till you pass it on to me. Probably I will not be one of the bad rulers for you, wassalam.

I shall strike you with my Sword To one of his officers when he snatched some of the public funds and fled to Al-hijaz. As soon as it was possible for you to misappropriate the Ummah’s trust, you hastened to turn around and attack them, and made a swift leap to snatch away whatever you could from their property meant for their widows and their orphans as the quick wolf snatches the wounded and helpless goat.