Chapter X: Living and Character of the Prophet
(12) Hazrat Aozayi reported : Caliph Mansure once called me and said : Advise me. I said : O Commander of the Faithful, the Prophet said : God made Paradise unlawful of the ruler who dies being displeased with his subjects. He who dislike truth hates God as He is the open Truth. It is just that you should upkeep the honour of your subjects, establish justice among them, not shut up your doors against them, be happy in their happiness and sorry in their sorrows. There are the foreigners, the unbelievers and the Muslims under you rule and upon you is the duty of doing justice among them.
O Commander of the Faithful once there was stick of grape in the hand of the Prophet. He used to cleanse his teeth and threaten the hypocrites therewith . The Prophet said : Then Gebriel cam down and said : O Muhammad, why is this stick ? you have broken the hearts of your people and created terror in their minds on its account, Now think of those who shed the blood of their subjects, destroyed their houses and banished them from their countries.
Once the Prophet assaulted as desert Arab very unwillingly with his own hand. Than Gebriel came down and said : O Muhammad , God has not sent you either as an oppressor or as a proud man. Then the Prophet called the desert Arab and said :
Take retaliation on me. The Arabs said: My-parents be sacrificed to you, I have forgiven you. I will never do it. If yoii have killed me. I would have still prayed good for you.
O Commander of the faithful, the Prophet said : The place of even an arrow in paradise for one of you is better than the world, and its wealth , Your rule will not last for ever as it did not last for your predecessors. I have heard that Hazrat Omar said : If any young one of a goat perishes by the side of the river Tigris, I fear I may be asked about it also. How will it be if a man comes to your "
court for justice and returns despaired ? Do you know about the verse revealed to Prophet Daud: O Daud, I have appointed you
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Caliph (vicegerent) in this world. So establish justice among them and don't follow your low desires, lest it may misguide you from the way of God.
God says in the Zabur: O David, when two parties come to you for justice, don't think in your mind that judgment will be give in favour of one to whom your mind inclines and he will be victorious over his adversary. In that case, your name will be cut off from the register of Prophethood and you will not be fit to represent Me. O David, I have sent my Prophets to take care of My servants as a shepherd takes caie of his flock of sheep . They have been given knowledge of that care and burden of administration, so that they may tie the broken thing, and make alive the weak by provision. O Commander of the Faithful, you are tired by such a thing, which if placed upon heaven and earth, they would have refused to bear it and would have been fearful.