The vizierate
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الوزارة · the vizierate · الوزير · deputyship · the vizier · النيابة · a king who appoints a deputy · a vizier held in honour · al-wizārah · delegation
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The office of vizier conceived as the uniting rank between governor and governed, the heaviest of the three positions of rule and the one whose reward the Prophet is said to have praised.
And you, O vizier (wazīr) — may God sustain you with His enabling grace — are in an office whose sides face different ways:
“No man among the Muslims has a greater reward than an upright vizier with an imām whom he obeys and whom he enjoins to what is God the Exalted's own due.
Now that these sections upon the preliminaries of the vizierate (wizārah) have been set down, its name is derived from its meaning;