{"id":625,"date":"2020-06-08T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=625"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:49:03","slug":"imam-ali-the-champion-of-good-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Imam Ali: The Champion of Good Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the Islamic history, Imam Ali has been recognized as the champion of social justice. His beliefs and behavior were anchored on the idea of justice. In the early days of Islam, his followers were called &#8220;adherents of justice&#8221; (\u0639\u062f\u0644\u06cc\u0647). When he was chosen by the people as the political leader of the vast Islamic Empire, Imam Ali picked one of his trusted aides, Malik Ashtar (\u0645\u0627\u0644\u06a9 \u0627\u0634\u062a\u0631), as the governor of Egypt. Before Malik  departed for his new post, Imam Ali penned down a document and detailed how Malik should govern in Egypt. This document is an astonishing manifesto for social justice, popular rule and respect for human rights. In this presentation, we will explorer some of Imam Ali&#8217;s teachings on good governance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4975\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4975','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=625-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"06-05-2020.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the Islamic history, Imam Ali has been recognized as the champion of social justice. His beliefs and behavior were anchored on the idea of justice. In the early days of Islam, his followers were called &#8220;adherents of justice&#8221; (\u0639\u062f\u0644\u06cc\u0647). When he was chosen by the people as the political leader of the vast Islamic Empire, Imam Ali picked one of his trusted aides, Malik Ashtar (\u0645\u0627\u0644\u06a9 \u0627\u0634\u062a\u0631), as the governor of Egypt. Before Malik  departed for his new post, Imam Ali penned down a document and detailed how Malik should govern in Egypt. This document is an astonishing manifesto for social justice, popular rule and respect for human rights. In this presentation, we will explorer some of Imam Ali&#8217;s teachings on good governance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4976\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4976','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=625-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/06-05-2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"06-05-2020.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-lectures","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}