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The Shi‘ites maintain that if government is not in the hand of the Imams of Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be
on them, the community will suffer from oppression and tyranny, that justice and equality will
never spread among it. Al‐Wardi says: “The Shi‘ites were the first to hold the cultural revolt in
Islam against tyranny. The essence of revolt is in their theory. The thought of the Imamate they
maintain urged them to criticize the ruling class, (to declare) their opposition throughout the
stages of their history, to regard all governments as usurping and oppressive except those
undertaken by an infallible Imam. For this reason they continually carried out revolutions. They
did not calm down, nor did they flag.”[1]
Through their continuous revolts, the Shi‘ite figures wanted to establish social justice, to put an
end to all kinds of oppression and corruption. For this reason they offered many sacrifices to
achieve this noble objective aiming at removing the corrupt government from the country.
According to these revolutionary doctrines the Shi‘ites have made it forbidden to cooperate with
the oppressive rulers or to mange their official jobs. Imam al‐Sadiq, peace be on him, said to his
companions: “I dislike to make a contract with them (the oppressive)…. The oppressive and their
helpers are in the Fire until Allah decides among his servants.”
Imam Musa, peace be on him, said to Ziyad b. Abi Selema: “O Ziyad, if I fell off a high mountain
and cut into pieces, it would be better for me than undertaking a work for them (the oppressive)
or walking on a carpet of a man from among them.” The Imam, peace be on him, made it
forbidden (for Muslims) to present a case against each other (in the courts) of the rulers of the
unjust states. They gave a religious decision that what the judges did was invalid. Imam al‐Sadiq,
peace be on him, warned the jurists against communicating with those oppressive rulers, saying:
“Jurists are the ones entrusted by the apostles. So, if you see them incline to the rulers, then
beware of them!”[2]
The Muslim, good class responded to these verdicts of Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be on them. They
refrained from communicating with the rulers. They made light of and disparaged all those who
worked for them. An example of that is that Ibn al‐Mubarek condemned Isma‘il b. Ibrahim al‐
Qereshi when he became a judge. He wrote him the following poem:
[1] Wa ''az al‐Salateen, p. 293.
[2] Hulyat al‐Awliya, vol. 3, p. 194.
O you who has appointed a falcon over knowledge to hunt the properties of the miserable!
You trick for the world and the pleasures wherein with a trick that destroys the religion.
You have become mad through it (job), while you had been the medicine of the mad.
Where are your bygone narrations on the authority of Ibn ‘Ayun and Ibn Sireen?
Where are your detailed narrations on leaving the doors of the rulers?
If you said that you were forced, then that would be invalid. The donkey of knowledge has slipped
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