[6] A Fallible cannot be Just in his judgement فقه الرضا...
[6] A Fallible cannot be Just in his judgement فقه الرضا عليه السلام اعْلَمْ أَنَّ الْقُضَاةَ أَرْبَعَةٌ قَاضٍ يَقْضِي بِالْبَاطِلِ وَ هُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ بَاطِلٌ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ يَقْضِي بِالْبَاطِلِ وَ هُوَ لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ بَاطِلٌ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْحَقِّ وَ هُوَ لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ حَقٌّ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْحَقِّ وَ هُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ حَقٌّ فَهُوَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَاجْتَنِبِ الْقَضَاءَ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تُقِيمُ بِهِ (The book) ‘Fiqh Al-Reza -asws ’ – ‘Know that the judgments are four – a judge judging with the falsehood and he knows that it is false, so he would be in the Hellfire; and a judge judging with the falsehood and he does not know that it is false, he would be in the Hellfire; and a judge judging with the truth and he does not know it is true, he would be in the Hellfire ; and a judge judging with the truth and he knows it is true, he would be in the Paradise!
Therefore, shun the judging for you cannot stand with it (uphold it) !’ [7] Fairness in dealing with an aggressor: وَ [يُرْوَى] رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ ع كَانَ جَالِساً فِي أَصْحَابِهِ- [إِذْ مَرَّتْ] فَمَرَّتْ بِهِمُ امْرَأَةٌ جَمِيلَةٌ فَرَمَقَهَا الْقَوْمُ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ فَقَالَ ع- إِنَّ أَبْصَارَ هَذِهِ الْفُحُولِ طَوَامِحُ وَ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ سَبَبُ هِبَابِهَا فَإِذَا نَظَرَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى امْرَأَةٍ تُعْجِبُهُ فَلْيُلَامِسْ أَهْلَهُ فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ امْرَأَةٌ كَامْرَأَتِهِ And it is reported that he -asws (Ali Amir Al-Momineen -asws ) was seated among his -asws companions when a beautiful woman passed by him -asws .
The people gazed at her with their eyes. He -asws said: ‘The eyes of these stallions are covetous, and that is the cause of their looking. So, whenever one of you looks at a woman who fascinates him, then let him touch his wife, for rather she is a woman like his woman’.
فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْخَوَارِجِ قَاتَلَهُ اللَّهُ كَافِراً مَا أَفْقَهَهُ- [قَالَ] فَوَثَبَ الْقَوْمُ لِيَقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالَ ع رُوَيْداً إِنَّمَا هُوَ سَبٌّ بِسَبٍّ أَوْ عَفْوٌ عَنْ ذَنْبٍ A man from the Kharijites said, ‘May Allah -azwj Kill him -asws a Kafir! How understanding he -asws is!’ The people leapt up to kill him. He -asws said: ‘Gently! But rather it is an insult (reviling) for an insult (reviling) or pardoning from a sin’’.
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