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The Issue of Responsible Leadership According to Imam Ali (A.S.)

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By: Sayyed Nadeem A. Kazmi
(Adapted from: Al-Noor, Vol 3, No. 33, Ramadhan/Shawaal, 1414 A.H. - March 1994 A.D. p. 8)

Imam Ali (AS) greatly emphasized the responsibility of leadership and the virtues of just and benevolent rule. His advice to his officers and the governors of the various provinces that made up the Islamic realm at the time are documents that deserve devotional study and practical application. His writings are, for all intents and purposes, a charter for just rule. He emphasized all those qualities of leadership that are today sneered at and purposely avoided. For Imam Ali, real-politick was just a slogan. He was convinced that good actions bore good results, and the basis for the loyalty of subjects was the extent to which their rights were guaranteed by law and the actions of the administrators over them.

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The Seventh Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar Al-Kazim. A.S

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Born in Madina on 7th Safar 128 Hijri (10.11.745AD). Died in Baghdad Iraq 25th Rajab 183 Hijri (4.9.799 AD) Period of Imamat was 35 years.

Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar was born during the struggle between the Ummayads and the Abbasids. He was only four years old when Abul Abbas “Saffah”, “The Shedder of Blood”, came to the throne as the first Abbasid caliph. For twenty years he was under the authority of his father, who died ten years before the end of the long reign of Mansur. The Imamat of the 7th Imam extended through the ten remaining years of the caliphat of Mansur, and included the ten years of the rule of Mahdi, one year and some months of Hadi and about twelve years of the reign of Harun al- Rashid. Thus for thirty five years he was the Imam. He held this coveted distinction as the longest period of Imamat of the Eleven Imams.

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Ali b. Abu Talib


This part gives an account of the Commander of the faithful, peace be on him, the first of the Imams of the belicvers, of the rulers (wulat) of the Muslims and of God's (appointed) successors in religion after the Apostle of God, the truthful one and the trusted one, Muhammad b. Abd Allah, the seal of the Prophets, blessings on him and his pure family. (He was) the brother of the Apostle of God and his paternal cousin, and his helper (wazir) in his affair, his son-in- law (being married) to his daughter, Fatima the chaste, mistress of the women of the universe. (The full name of) the Commander of the faithful is Ali b. Abi Talib b. Abd al Muttalib b. Hashim b. Abd Manaf. (He was) the Lord of the testamentary trustees of authority (wasiyyin), the best of blessing and peace be on him. His kunya was Abu al-Hasan.

 

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