٣٣٩. وَقَالَ (عليه ‏السلام): صَوَابُ الرَّأْيِ بِالدُّوَلِ: يُقْبِلُ بِإِقْبَالِهَا وَيَذْهَبُ بِذَهَابِهَا.

339. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: Correctness of decision goes together with power. The one emerges with the other’s emergence and disappears when the other disappears. [1]

339. La justesse de l’opinion est fonction des Etats: elle prospère quand ceux-ci prospèrent et s’anéantit lors- qu’ils cessent d’exister.

Nahj al-Balāgha

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