138. Imām Ali (a.s.) –from his instructions to Mālik al-Ashtar on looking into the affairs of the administrators: “If one of them should extend his hand in a treacherous act concerning which the intelligence received against him from your observers concurs and if you are satisfied with that as a witness, subject him to corporeal punishment and charge him for what befell from his action. Then set him in a position of degradation, brand him with treachery and chain his neck with the shame of accusation (defame).”1
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Forbidding Administrators from Accepting Gifts
139. Imām Ali (a.s.): “Any ruler who hides himself from the people’s needs, God will also hide Himself from him and his needs on the Day of Judgment. If he accepts gifts he is a traitor, and if he accepts bribes he is a polytheist.”2
1.. Nahj al-Balāghah, Letter ۵۳, Tuhaf al-`Uqul, p. ۱۳۷, Da`ā'im al-Islām, vol. ۱, p. ۳۶۱.
2.. Thawāb al-A`māl, p. ۳۱۰, h. ۱. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۷۲, p. ۳۴۵, h. ۴۲.
