He
wanted that his government should work for the welfare of people not with the
intent to earn their goodwill, which will automatically follow, but to please
the Almighty whose divinely arrangement of public spending is in favour of poor
and needy.
In
the same letter at a different place, Imam Ali (A.S.) writes:
“Then
I want to caution you about the poor. Fear God about their conditions and your
attitude towards them. They have no support, no resources and no opportunities.
They are poor, they are destitute and many of them are cripples and unable to
work...
You
should be a source of comfort, love and respect to them. Appoint a respectable,
honest and pious person, a person who fears God, and can treat them
respectfully, order him to find out everything about them and to bring the
report to you”
After
going through the following statement of Imam Ali (A.S.), we can appreciate the
vision of his government. He wanted that his government should be pro-poor and
it should sensitize issues relating to poverty and sufferings of masses. In a
large number of Muslim countries where poverty is rampant, people silently
suffer from hunger, disease, malnutrition and deprivation of different types.
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