A Few Notes on Governance

THERE IS A LIMIT BEYOND WHICH IT IS UNHEALTHY... TO CONCEAL TRUTH IN ORDER NOT TO OFFEND THOSE WHOSE MINDS ARE CLOSED. ( Haidar Gul )

THE FOUNDATION OF TYRANNY IN THE WORLD WAS TRIFLING AT FIRST. EVERYONE ADDED TO IT UNTIL IT ATTAINED ITS PRESENT MAGNITUDE. FOR THE HALF-EGG THAT THE SULTAN CONSIDERS RIGHT TO TAKE BY FORCE, HIS TROOPS WILL PUT A THOUSAND FOWLS ON THE SPIT. ( Saadi of Shiraz )

THE RULER IS A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK IS THE PEOPLE.
HE HAS TO HELP THEM AND SAVE THEM, NOT TO EXPLOIT AND DESTROY THEM.
IS THE SHEPHERD THERE FOR THE FLOCK, OR THE FLOCK FOR THE SHEPHERD? (Hakim Jami )

JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS, NOT RELIGION OR ATHEISM,
ARE NEEDFUL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE STATE.
( Hakim Jami )

( See Shah, I. The Way of the Sufi. New York: Penguin, 1968)