Imam Ali (AS) wrote:

After remembrance of God and Salam (greetings), indeed regimes before you were destroyed because they did not observe the rights of people. Then they attained the world by bribery, and misled people to unjust way, and they (people) obeyed them [1].

[1] Nahjul Balaghah, Letter 79 (letter to army commanders)

February 16, 2019/

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