Hadith 149

esitation, for I-asws heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying in another place: ‘It will never be sanctified, a community in which it is not taken for the weak, his right from the strong, without restrictions’. Then tolerate the awkwardness from them and the stammering and keep aside from you the narrow-mindedness and the pride, Allah-azwj would Spread upon you, due to that, covering of His-azwj Mercy and Obligate to you the Rewards of having obeyed Him-azwj. And give pleasantly what you give and refuse beautifully and excusing. Then there are matters from your matter there is no escape for you from dealing with it (yourself). From these is answering your office bearers with what your scribes are unable to do so, and from these is issuance of needs of the people during their referral to you, from what the chests of your assistance are embarrassed from. And accomplish for each day its work, as for each day is what is in it, and make for yourself in what is between you and Allah-azwj the best of those timings, and make plentiful those distributions, and even though all of these are for the Sake of Allah-azwj when the intention is sincere in it, and the citizens are safe from it. And let it happen regarding the special (act of worship) of your religion, what can be purely for Allah-azwj by it, be the establishment of His-azwj Obligation which are for Him-azwj in particular. So, give Allah-azwj from your body during your night and your day, and fulfil what you can draw closer to Allah-azwj with it, (let it be) perfect, without defect of deficiency, reaching from your body whatever it reaches. And when you stand in your Salat for the people, neither become repulsive (by prolonging) nor waste it (by shortening too much), for among the people there is one with sickness, and for him is the need. And I-asws had asked Rasool-Allah-saww when he-saww had sent me-asws to Al-Yemen: ‘How shall I-asws pray Salat with them? ’ He-saww said: ‘Pray Salat with them like the Salat of their weakest one, and by merciful with the Momineen’. And as for after this, do not prolong your veiling from your citizens, for the veiling of the ruler is a branch from the narrow-mindedness and scarcity of the knowledge with the affairs, and the seclusion from them cuts off the knowledge from then what they are veiling besides him, so the great one would be small in their presence, and the small one would be magnified, and the good would be ugly and the ugly would be considered good, and the truth would resemble with the falsehood. And rather the ruler is a human being, he does not recognise what affairs the people are covering from him. And there isn’t any marking upon the truth by which a variety of the truthfulness can be recognise from the lies. And rather you are one of the two men, either a person with a generous self in the spending regarding the truth, then why are you veiling from the people. Is it an obligatory right you are giving it or an honourable deed you are blocking; or you are tried with the refusal? How quickly the people would refrain from asking you when they despair from your spending, along with that the needs of the people to you are what there is no exertion in it upon you, from a complaint of an oppressed or seeking fairness in a matter. Then, for the ruler there are special ones and confidants. Among them would be the prejudicial, and heavy-handed, and of little fairness in a dealing, so cut off the root of their by cutting off t