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               funeral,  the  apostle  was  never    symbolize  core  Islamic  values
               forsaken  by  a  generous  friend,    as  stated  in  Quran  and  by
               whom  he  delighted  to  name  his    Prophet Mohammad.
               brother,  his  vicegerent  and  the      Imam  Ali  started  to  change
               faithful Haroon of a second Mosa.     the  state  into  Islamic  state,
                  Prophet  Mohammad  said            changed  the  economy  system.
               that  “I  am  the  city  of           He  cancelled  the  system  of
               Knowledge and Ali is the door         wealth  distribution  made  by
               of it”. Upon such virtuous, we        previous  rulers,  brought  a
               can take his life as an example       Islamic management system in
               of  leader  and  follow  his          which  all  will  be  treated  with
               management system to form an          just.   Islamic     Philosopher
               Islamic society. The Prophet of       Farabi  (950)  theorizes  that
               Allah  said  that  Every  Prophet     ideal  state  to  be  ruled  by  the
               has  vicegerent  and  inheritor       Prophet  Mohammad  and  his
               and  Ali  ibn  Abi-Talib  is  my      successor Ali ibn Abi-Talib.
               inheritor and vicegerent.                Imam  Ali  letter  to  Malik
                  We  are  going  to  study  the     Ashtar  about  managing  a
               management  ideas  of  Imam           government was all about Fear
               Ali  with  special  reference  to     of God, equality, justice among
               his  letter  to  Malik  Ashtar.       all, do duties well, take care of
               After  Reading  the  letter,  we      orphans and many other which
               discovered  that  his  way  of        will be mentioned below.
               management  system  was  pure            A famous Christian Scholar
               Islamic and proven success.           Abul-Anthaki reports that “the
                  Imam  Ali  wrote  many             letter  explains  what  a  human
               letters  but  this  letter  is  more   management  should  be  like
               famous as regards to other due        and how it is to  be carried on
               to its clarify of purpose. Imam       and  it  justifies  the  claims  of
               Ali  idea  of  management  and        Muslims  that  Islam  wants  to
               justice does not only reflect his     introduce         a       Godly
               personal        opinion       but     management of the people for
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