Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-709b
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عَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
"لا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَلِيَ هَذَا الأَمْرَ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ فِيه أَرْبَعُ خِلَالٍ: اللِّينُ فِي غَيْرِ ضَعْفٍ، وَالشِّدَّةُ فِي غَيْرِ عُنْفٍ، وَالإِمْسَاكُ مِنْ غَيْرِ بُخْلٍ، وَالسَّماحَةُ فِي غَيْرِ سَرَفٍ، فَإِنْ سَقَطتْ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْهُن فَسَدَتِ الثَّلَاثُ".
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- ʿUmar
✧ “No one should assume this office except a man who possesses four qualities: gentleness without weakness, firmness without violence, restraint without miserliness, and generosity without extravagance; for if one of them falls away, the other three are corrupted.”
Notes
[عب] عبد الرازق
machine translation[ʿAb] ʿAbd al-Razzāq
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