As we want to shift to reflect on the good and its...

As we want to shift to reflect on the good and its significance on the level of relationships among people, we could classify Ibn Abi Talib’s views into the following lines: First: the good among people lies in the idea that they cooperate and support one another, and that one should act for the sake of himself and the other equally; and that this act should not have a hypocrisy from this side nor compulsion from that side “motivated by desire, not by fright” as Ali says: then to sacrifice little and much so as to save others’ comfort and people’s trust on each other, and that this sacrifice comes as an initiative not after a request, nor after a compulsion or a force.

And whatever serves or benefits, whether on the material or spiritual level, is a goodness. Second: Ali sees that good does not come except as a practice at first, then as a saying, for man must be one like the one existence, and to support one another to fulfil this law; then if he said he would practice, and if he acted he would say.

And from Ibn Abi Talib’s masterpieces is a word he said of a man who hopes Allah in a concern but he does not act for the sake of this hope: “he claims according to his own thinking that he hopes from Allah. By Allah, the Great, he speaks a lie.

Why doesn’t his hope appear through his action although the hope of everyone who hopes is noticed in his action.” But if you practiced the good, it is your right then to say the good: “Say the good and act the good.” Third: Ali expands the range before the powers of good to go ahead to the most far distant, thereby making the acceptance of repentance of evil a law to be acted on.

Then if a man committed a sin offending others, the repentance has a door where he could enter once again into the world of good if he liked. Ali says: “Accept the excuse of him who apologizes to you, and delay evil as long as you can.

“History know the amount of offence which Ali suffered from Abu Mosa Al-Ashary, and it too knows that Ali has not behaved except on his doctrine, whatever situations and difficulties have been, hence we see him send to Abu Mosa saying: “Know then, that you are a man ledastray by your desires, and tempted by self-conceit, so seek Allah’s pardon, and He forgives your stumbling, because he who seeks Allah’s pardon, He forgives him.”.

Forth: Ali believes that the powers of good in man summon and fasten one another in a powerful way.