And of his happiness too is the prevalence of this sympathy over him...

And of his happiness too is the prevalence of this sympathy over him, therefore other’s sons will acquire this kindness that his sons get: “Educate orphan in the manner you educate your sons.” Every-one should sense the spirit of basic justice which excel the positivistic laws in value and beauty because it carries humani-tarian warmth and joins morals with the logic of heart, not the logic of submission to the law: “The young among you should follow the elders while the elders should be kind to the young.” If the inability to obtain virtues is a defect, the logic of sympathy in Ali’s language renders the inable person to acquire people’s fraternity as the most defective: “The most helpless of all men is he who cannot gain brothers.” Ali adds to this inability another helplessness that is the tendency towards dispute and quarrelling, saying: “Be careful of dispute and quarrelling.” Rather what is prior is softness of speech since it enables to fasten the relations between a heart, as the source of sympathy, and the other heart: “Softness of speech is of generosity.” There is nothing among tendencies of heart which is near to comfort than one’s feeling that he has loving brothers among all people; if Ibn Abi Talib felt pain from the evils of his time he regards bread – which the means of survival truthfulness – which is the centre of survival, and people’s fraternity in one position; he says describing the people of his time: “people are about…