Taking counsel
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
al-mashwarah · consultation · counsel · taking counsel · taking of counsel · المشورة
spoken of as
1 expressionMashwarah“taking counsel”1 mention
Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)
Turn away from the counsel of one who aims at agreeing with you in following your whim, or who purposes to disagree with you out of aversion from you;
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Deliberation with others, praised as support and set against the ruin of relying on one's own opinion.
Whoever is content with himself multiplies those who are displeased with him.
Adab al-wazīr
Mashwarah, consultation as a technique of government: whom to consult, the augmentation of one's own judgment, and the counsellor's immunity from blame.
Turn away from the counsel of one who aims at agreeing with you in following your whim, or who purposes to disagree with you out of aversion from you;
“No support is more trustworthy than taking counsel.
When affairs are managed by the young — apart from the elders, you see a flaw in some of them The young have in a matter a rush to act — and the elders a deliberateness that fends off the slip