Machine summary:
"This paper aims at compiling, analyzing, and expounding the characteristics of the political elite and administrators from the viewpoint oflmam Ali. To this end, these features are classified into the three groups of rational and real, moral and humane, and religious and Islamic.
l. l - The principle of justice: Justice is a human principle and one of the most important indicators oflslamic political thought while one of the most outstanding objectives of Islam in power and sovereignty is institutionalizingjustice throughout a society .
what the major issue in Islamic political thought is; rather, it will expound on parts of the approach of Islam towards power, an approach which is completely religious and derived from the principles of purely divine cognition manifested in the tradition of Prophet Mohammed and Imam Ali emphasizing that power and statesmanship are less worthy than the excretions from a goat's nose and a pair of worn-out shoes unless of course power and state are serving divine and human objectives.
The paper shall not describe the material life oflmam Ali and it will suffice to stating that although it may not be possible for the political elite and rulers to live their lives as simply as Imam Ali - particularly in the modem world - they must try hard to lead simple lives as much as possible so that they would be able to actualize the objectives of Islam."