Hadith 149

d better for you in support and more inclining towards you with compassion and less towards others, therefore take them as special ones for your private and public matters. Then let the most preferential in your presence be their most speaker with the bitter truth to you, and the least of them in assisting in what happens from you what Allah-azwj Dislikes for His-azwj friends. That is occurring from your personal desires when it occurs. And stick with the people of devoutness and the truthfulness, then please them upon a condition that they should neither praise you nor make you happy with the falsities you did not do, for most of the praises brings about the pride and draws near to the haughtiness. And do not let the good doer and the evil doer be at the same status in your presence, for if that would be dissuasion for the people of the good regarding the good deeds and a persuasion for the people of the evil upon the evil deeds, and necessitate each one of them what he has necessitated himself. And know, there isn’t anything more conducive to good thoughts of a ruler by his citizens that his good favours to them, and his lightening of the hardships from them, and leave being abhorrent to them upon what isn’t for him before them. So, let it happen from you regarding that matter, be a collect of good thoughts for you by your citizens for the good thinking would cut off from you prolonged hostilities. And that the most rightful one of good thoughts with him is for the one whom you have been good to in his afflictions, and the most rightful one of evil thoughts with him is for the one you have been with bad treatment towards him. Do not discontinue any righteous conduct which most of this community is working with and have united upon with prosperity, and the citizens are reconciled upon. And do not innovate any conduct harming anything from the past conducts, for the recompense would be for the one who conducts by it and the burden would be upon you due to what you discontinued from it. And frequent the conferences of the learned and discussion with the wise ones in affirming what upon it is the betterment of your country and establishing what the people before you were being straightened with it. And know that the citizens are in layers, some of them are not correct except with some, nor are some of them needless from others. From these are armies of Allah-azwj, and from these are secretaries of the general public and the special ones, and from these is judges of the justice, and from these are officers of the fairness and the friendship, and from these are the people of taxation and the levies from the ones under the responsibility and the general Muslims, and from these are the traders and the people of manufacturing, and from these is the lower level from the ones with the need and the destitution. And for each Allah-azwj has Named his share for him and Placed its limit and its Obligation in His-azwj Book, or Sunnah of His-azwj Prophet-saww, being a Pact from Him-azwj with us, preserved. The armies, by the Permission of Allah-azwj are fortresses of the citizens, and adornment of the rulers, and might of the religion, and ways of the peace, and the citizens cannot stand except by them. Then there is no strength for the armies except by what Allah-azwj Brings out for them from the taxes which they can be with it in their fighting their enemies, and rely upon it in what is correct for them, and can happen to b