You have a lively mind
I selected some passages from Imam Ali’s Goharin letter to Malik Ashtar about governance and management (Malik’s Testament translated by Aiti). I chose the paragraphs based on the main issues that Iranian managers are suffering from.
I hope that the administrators who recited the Quran these nights and kept vigils will now inculcate some of the following short verses in their minds and souls that the real revival is in this.
About interacting with people
1. Make kindness to subjects and loving them and kindness towards them the motto of your heart. Don’t be like a predatory animal that eats them as booty, because they are two groups, either they are your companions or your equals in creation.
2. The honor and greatness of someone makes you count his small suffering as big, and the inferiority of someone makes you count his big suffering as small.
3. If you forgive something, forgive it as if it has pleased you, and if you forbid, your prohibition should be accompanied by kindness and apology.
About self-improvement
1. When you forgive someone, don’t regret what you did, and when you punish someone, don’t be happy about what you did.
2. Whenever arrogance or pride arises in you from the dominion and power in which you are, look at the greatness of God’s property, which is superior to you and capable of doing things that you are not capable of. This look relieves your stubbornness.
3. Join the pious and the truthful, then ask them not to praise you too much and not be happy about the falsehood that you have not committed, because praise mixed with flattery causes self-righteousness and makes a person rebellious.
4. Avoid getting attached to the praise and flattery of others, because it is one of the best opportunities for the devil to jump in and destroy the good deeds of the good people. Zanhar is sorry for your kindness to the subjects.
About team building
1. The properties and relatives are those who are a heavy burden on the shoulders of the governor when there is freedom and comfort, and when an accident occurs, they are less likely than anyone else to come to his aid, and they do not like to be judged fairly. They insist on everything from the governor and if they get a gift, they are the least grateful.
2. Your most chosen ministers should be those who speak the truth, even though the truth is bitter, and help you less in things that God does not like for His friends, even if these words and actions displease you.
3. To judge among the people, choose one of the subjects who was superior to others in your eyes. A man who, if he commits a mistake, does not insist on it, and when he knows the truth, he does not hesitate in tending to it, and his soul does not incline to temptation, and does not settle for a little understanding without reaching the depth of the truth. Such people are few and far between, so judge a man like make good promises to him and keep him good, and spend generously in giving him wealth so that his problems are solved and he does not need people, and give him such a status in your eyes that he is close to you. Do not be greedy about him and he will be safe from the harm of others in your sight.
last word
1. Nothing can change God’s grace like oppression.
2. God, God, about the lower class, those who are poor. By being arrogant towards them, you will not be the face of Dojam, and you yourself, inspect and re-search the works of those who cannot reach you. These are the people who are worthless in the eyes of others and despised by the rulers of the government. Appoint some of your faithful who are God-fearing and humble to look after their affairs and report their needs to you.
3. A nation in which the subordinate cannot claim his right from the strong without stuttering is not clean and beautiful.
Salman Sefidchian- June 6, 1998
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