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leadership lessons from imam ali letter to malik

Imam Ali's Advice to Malek (Part 4)

Never Tyrannize the Servants of God I swear by God if I remain wakeful at night by standing on the prick of Sa'adan while my hands and feet have been shackled and pulled over the pricks and brushwood in the desert, I consider this act more favorable than meeting God and His Messenger on the Day of Resurrection while I have tyrannized some of the servants of God or usurped some things of worldly things.

Imam Ali's Advice to Malek (Part 3)

Malek and Justice Therefore, your best saving should be your meritorious deeds. Therefore, exercise control over your carnal desires and passions; resent what is not permissible and admissible for one's self.

Imam Ali's Advice to Malek (Part 2)

Malek and Taking lessons from ancestors in Leadership Verily, people look at your works in the same way that you look at the functions of previous rulers; that which you say about they are told about you.

Imam Ali's Advice to Malek (Part 1)

Malek and Characteristics of a Righteous Leader Malek, appoint one who entertains God's majesty in one's heart and appreciates His esteem, it is appropriate to denigrate greatness of other than Him. … Verily, the meanest states of rulers in the sight of benevolent people is to conjecture them to be loving vanity and pride and presuming them to be self-admirer and loving you to eulogize them. Thank God that I am not a man of this ilk.[1]

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