"Whenever a time comes that the justice overwhelms and overcomes cruelty, it is prohibited to form negative conjectures and opinions about anyone, except when one knows it about him. But whenever a time comes that cruelty and oppression overwhelms the (quantum of) justice, then one must not have good opinions about the beneficence of a person, till such time he knows it(for sure)."
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Muhsin al-Amīn, ‘Ayān ush-Shī‘ah, vol.2, p. 39.
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Ali al-Hadi
‘Alī ibn Muhammad al-Hādī an-Naqī (Arabic: علي بن محمد الهادي النقي; 828 – 868 AD) was the tenth of the Twelve Imams. He was the son of Muhammad al-Taqī and was the eighth generation grandson of Muhammad.
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