نامه 60: به فرماندارانی که ارتش از قلمرو آنان میگذرد · Letter 60

و من كتاب له (عليه السلام) إلي العمال الذين يطأ الجيش عملهم

مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلِيٍّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِلَي مَنْ مَرَّ بِهِ الْجَيْشُ مِنْ جُبَاةِ الْخَرَاجِ وَ عُمَّالِ الْبِلَادِ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنِّي قَدْ سَيَّرْتُ جُنُوداً هِيَ مَارَّةٌ بِكُمْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ قَدْ أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِمَا يَجِبُ لِلَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ كَفِّ الْأَذَي وَ صَرْفِ الشَّذَا وَ أَنَا أَبْرَأُ إِلَيْكُمْ وَ إِلَي ذِمَّتِكُمْ مِنْ مَعَرَّةِ الْجَيْشِ إِلَّا مِنْ جَوْعَةِ الْمُضْطَرِّ لَا يَجِدُ عَنْهَا مَذْهَباً إِلَي شِبَعِهِ فَنَكِّلُوا مَنْ تَنَاوَلَ مِنْهُمْ شَيْئاً ظُلْماً عَنْ ظُلْمِهِمْ وَ كُفُّوا أَيْدِيَ سُفَهَائِكُمْ عَنْ مُضَارَّتِهِمْ وَ التَّعَرُّضِ لَهُمْ فِيمَا اسْتَثْنَيْنَاهُ مِنْهُمْ وَ أَنَا بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِ الْجَيْشِ فَارْفَعُوا إِلَيَّ مَظَالِمَكُمْ وَ مَا عَرَاكُمْ مِمَّا يَغْلِبُكُمْ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ وَ مَا لَا تُطِيقُونَ دَفْعَهُ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ وَ بِي فَأَنَا أُغَيِّرُهُ بِمَعُونَةِ اللَّهِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ.

From the servant of Allah Ali, Amir al-Mu'minin to all the collectors of revenue and officers of the realm through whose area the army passes. Now, I have sent an army that will pass by you, if Allah wills. I have instructed them about what Allah has made obligatory on them, namely that they should avoid molestation and evade harm. I hold myself clear before you and those (unbelievers) who are under your protection from any annoyance committed by the army axcept when one is compelled by hunger and there is no other way of satisfying it. If anyone of them takes anything by force you should punish him. None of you should be silly to obstruct them or intervene in matters which we have allowed them by way of exception. I am myself within the army. So, refer to me their high-handedness, and any hardship which is caused by them and which you cannot avert except through Allah and through me. I shall then avert it with the help of Allah, if He so wills.