Lesson: 61 Rights and Collusion Between Government and the People
In this regard
Amirul Momineen (a.s.) has said: O people! I have rights over you and you also
have rights over me. Verily your right over me is that I must not lag behind
in wishing well for you and to spend your Baitul Maal public treasury for you
and to educate you so that you may be freed from ignorance and unawareness and
to train you to make you learned.
And surely
my right over you is that you must remain loyal to your allegiance Bait to me
and not ignore well-wishing for me both openly and secretly, to respond to my
call whenever I call you and to obey me when I order you. It is written in Ali's (a.s.) letter to the chiefs of staff: