Counsel
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
admonition · advice · consultation · counsel · good counsels · mashūrah · precepts · seeking counsel · مشورة
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
Mashūrah, consultation, treated as an office with rules about who may consult, who may be consulted, and what must be concealed afterward.
that he supply the king with his judgement (*raʼy*) and his counsel (*mashūrah*).
but one other than the vizier may not seek counsel concerning that on which he is himself consulted, because of the difference that holds between the two in two respects.
And when the most prudent course has settled upon what the judgement required, he is bound, in what he renders of consultation and offers of counsel, to conceal it from every man, privileged and common alike, for two reasons.
To Nicocles
Counsel is practical ethical and political instruction offered to the king as a superior gift.
Make use of the precepts which I have given you or else seek better counsel.
Now I, for my part, have offered you all the good counsels which I know, and I honor you with these gifts which I have at my command;
but when they are intelligent and able to see farther than the rest, prize them and cherish them, knowing that a good counsellor is the most useful and the most princely of all possessions.