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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the better of the two policies.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the cornerstone of faith and the accumulator of benevolence.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the mainstay of the populace and the splendour of the rulers.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice means that you act equitably when you are oppressed, and kindness means that when you gain authority, you forgive.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Be just and you will rule.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Be just and you will rule.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Be just and your power will last.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Have recourse to justice with good intention for the populace, reduced covetousness and increased piety.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The loftiest of endowments is justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best [form of] justice is assisting the oppressed.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most just of all people is he who is equitable to the one who has oppressed him.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily being fair in [your] ruling and eschewing oppression are part of justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed justice is the scale of Allah, the Glorified, which He has placed among the creation and installed for the establishment of truth; so do not oppose Him in His scale and do not contradict Him in His authority.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily Allah, the Glorified, has enjoined justice and benevolence and has forbidden indecency and injustice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is brings harmony while oppression causes deviation.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the soul of testimony.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the life of decrees.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the best testimony.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice reforms the people.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is a merit for the ruler.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the greatest of riches.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is equity.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is a foundation [for a healthy society]; oppression is destruction.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The just [ruler] is a custodian who awaits one of the two rewards (or the better of the two rewards).

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most just among the creation is one who judges best according to the truth.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most just of all people is he who is equitable despite having power, and the one who has the greatest clemency is he who is clement despite having authority.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through justice, bounties are multiplied.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through justice, the populace is reformed.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Allah, the Glorified, made justice a mainstay for mankind, a purification from oppressions and vices, and as an opening for [the spreading of] Islam.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Virtuous justice is [the cause of] organization [and harmony] among the people.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of policies is justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How can one who is unjust to himself be just with others?!

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice suffices as a means of governance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Let your riding mount be justice, for one who rides on it gains mastery.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice can never be achieved until injustice falters [and comes to an end].

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

It is not from justice to judge a reliable person by conjecture [instead of accepting his testimony].77

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who is just gains [and strengthens his] power [and authority].

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The ruling of one who is just gets acted upon.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The status of one who is just becomes great.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One whose justice increases, his days are praised.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Allah unfolds His mercy upon one who acts justly in the lands.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One whose deed done in private matches what he does openly and whose actions are consistent with his speech, then he is the one who has fulfilled the trust and whose justice has been established.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever acts justly, Allah fortifies his kingdom.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Take with justice but give with munificence; you will possess two virtues.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The policy of justice comprises of three things: judiciousness in leniency, fairness in investigation and moderation in munificence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Two things are such that their reward cannot be weighed: forgiveness and justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The uprightness [and betterment] of the populace is [achieved through] justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

You must be just with [both] friend and foe, and moderate in [both] poverty and wealth.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The pinnacle of justice is for a person to be just with himself.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

In justice there is benevolence.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

In justice there is betterment of the people.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Following the way of Allah and the stability of nations lies in justice

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

In justice there is comfort; and one for whom justice is beleaguering, then oppression will be more beleaguering [and difficult] for him.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

From the exigencies of justice is the forbidding of oppression.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nothing brings prosperity to the lands like justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not let the weak lose hope in your justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no justice better than returning the right of the oppressed.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is life.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the best judgment.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is [a means of attaining]) success and dignity.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the mainstay of the populace (or of the creation).

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is a merit of the sultan.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the system of leadership.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the strongest foundation.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice is the best trait.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Justice relieves the one who acts upon it from being shackled by the rights of others.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The bane of justice is the powerful tyrant.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When your judgment is applied upon yourself [thereby showing your justice], the souls of [other] people summon each other towards your justice.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The bane of the just [ones] is lack of piety.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The coming to power of the just is from the necessities.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Many a just person is an oppressor.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Hadith

Ethics Virtues JUSTICE AND THE JUST