"No one is fit to govern, save he who is mild without weakness and strong without harshness. They used to say : There can be no government without men, No men without money, No money without prosperity, And no prosperity without justice and good administration."
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The "Circle of Justice" as quoted in Human Rights in Islam (1980) by Parveen Shaukat Ali, p. 72.
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