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Commitment to Truthfulness

79. Imām Ali (a.s.): “Indeed, the best of people according to God are those for whom acting according to the truth [enforcing the truth] is more beloved –even though it brings hardship or grief-- than the wrong –even though it brings them benefit and increase.”¹

80. Imām Ali (a.s.): “Let not protecting of someone’s rights prevent you from executing the rights [of other] against him.”²

81. al-Irshād: “When the Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) set out for Basra, he stopped at a village by the name of ‘Rabadha’³ where he was met by the last of the Hajj pilgrims who gathered around him in his tent to listen to his speech.
Ibn `Abbās said: “I went to Ali (a.s.) and saw him stitching his shoes, so I said to him: “Our need for you to set in place our affairs is greater than what you are doing.” He did not say anything until he finished stitching his shoe, placing it next to the other one. He then said: “What is the price of these?”
I said: “They have no value.”
He said: “Whatever value they have (tell me)!”
I said: “Half a dirham.”
He said: “By God, they have more value to me than the ruling over you, unless I can establish a rights and repel a wrong.”⁴

راجع: موسوعة الإمام علي بن أبي طالب علیه السلام: ص 551 (الخدعة).

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الالتزام بالحقّ

79. الإمام عليّ علیه السلام: إنَّ أفضَلَ النّاسِ عِندَ اللهِ مَن كانَ العَمَلُ بِالحَقِّ أحَبَّ إلَيهِ ـ وإن نَقَصَهُ وكَرَثَهُ¹ ـ مِنَ الباطِلِ وإن جَرَّ إلَيهِ فائِدَةً وزادَهُ.²

80. عنه علیه السلام: لا تَمنَعَنَّكُم رِعايَةُ الحَقِّ لاَِحَدٍ عَن إِقامَةِ الحَقِّ عَلَيهِ.³

81. الإرشاد: لَمّا تَوَجَّهَ أميرُ المُؤمِنينَ علیه السلام إلَى البَصرَةِ، نَزَلَ الرَّبَذَةَ⁴ فَلَقِيَهُ بِها آخِرُ الحاجِّ، فَاجتَمَعوا لِيَسمَعوا مِن كَلامِهِ وهُوَ في خِبائِهِ.
قالَ ابنُ عَبّاس: فَأَتَيتُهُ فَوَجَدتُهُ يَخصِفُ نَعلاً، فَقُلتُ لَهُ: نَحنُ إلىٰ أن تُصلِحَ أمرَنا أحوَجُ مِنّا إلى ما تَصنَعُ، فَلَم يُكَلِّمني حَتّى فَرَغَ مِن نَعلِهِ، ثُمَّ ضَمَّها إلى صاحِبَتِها، ثُمَّ قالَ لي: قَوِّمها، فَقُلتُ: لَيسَ لَها قيمَةٌ، قالَ: عَلىٰ ذاكَ، قُلتُ: كَسرُ دِرهَم.
قالَ: وَاللهِ لَهُما أحَبُّ إلَيَّ مِن أمرِكُم هٰذا، إلّا أن اُقيمَ حَقّاً أو أدفَعَ باطِلاً.⁵