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suyuti:2-709bʿUmar

[Machine] “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.”

السيوطي:٢-٧٠٩bعَنْ 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".

[عب] عبد الرازق

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