الإنصافُ

FAIRNESS

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Fairness brings harmony between hearts.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1130]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘With fairness relationships last.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4190]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘With fairness relations are increased.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 224]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The zakat of power is fairness.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5448]

6– Imam al-Baqir (AS), with regard to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "Indeed Allah enjoins justice and kindness"1155, said, ‘Justice is fairness, and kindness is courteousness.’
[Qur’an 16: 90]

7– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘There is no justice like fairness.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 231]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A believer is fair to one who is not fair to him.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 165, no. 1]

9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The most just of people is he who is fair towards those who oppress him.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3186]

10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘It is not of fairness to demand fairness from brothers.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 280, no. 537]

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever is charitable towards a poor person, and is fair towards people in spite of himself, then he is the true believer.’
[al-Khisal, p. 47, no. 48]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The fairest of people is he who is fair in spite of himself without someone judging over him.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3345]

13– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Indeed he who is fair to people in spite of himself, Allah will only increase him in dignity.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 144, no. 4]

14– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘It is enough for a person … endowed with intellect to be fair
[to others] in spite of himself … and
[for a person] endowed with fairness to accept the truth when it becomes clear to him.’
[Kashf al-Ghamma, v. 3, p. 137-138]

15– Imam Ali (AS), in his letter to Malik al-Ashtar said, ‘…be fair for Allah and be fair to people in spite of yourself, and in spite of your close members of your family, and in spite of those towards whom you have inclinations from among your followers, for if you do not do so you will be oppressing.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 53]

16– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Allah has a Heaven that no one enters other than three kinds of people: one of them is he who judges himself with truth.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 148, no. 19]

17– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There are three types of people who cannot expect fairness from three other types of people: an intelligent man from a fool, a righteous man from a corrupt man, and a kind man from a vile man.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4674]

18– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A righteous man cannot expect fairness from a corrupt man, nor can a knowledgeable man expect fairness from an ignorant man.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 10732-10733]