Section: The Vizierate of Execution

al-nāẓir fa-yajib ʻazluhu . Wa-al-wazīr baʻda ʻazlihi bayna khiyārayn : immā an yuqallada al-bādhil , aw yuqallada ghayruhu min al-kufāh : wa-al-qism al-thānī an yakūna mūjibuhā faḍl kifāyat al-bādhil , fa-yajib ʻazluhu bi-al-bādhil dūna ghayrihi : wa-al-qism al-thālith an yakūna sababuhā ʻasf al-bādhil wa-khurqihi ; fa-lā yajūz fī al-siyāsah ʻazl al-nāẓir wa-lā taqrīb al-bādhil , fa-rubbamā māla ilá al-ziyādah man taʻāṣá ʻan al-ʻazl fa-ʻuzila , wa-qullida fa-ṣāra huwa al-ʻāsif al-mujāzif.

Wa-al-wajh al-thāmin an yakūna sababuhu an al-nāẓir muʼtaman fa-yakhṭub ʻamalahu ḍāmin ; fa-taḍmīn al-aʻmāl khārij ʻan qawānīn al-siyāsah al-ʻādilah , li-anna al-muʼtaman ʻalayhā idhā kāna kāfiyan istawfá mā wajaba , wa-kaffa ʻammā lam yajib , wa-hādhā huwa al-ʻadl . Wa-al-ḍāmin in ḍaminahā bi-mithl irtifāʻihā lam yuʼaththir , wa-in ḍaminahā bi-akthar minhu taḥakkama fī ʻamalihi wa-kāna bayna ʻasf aw harab ; ka-annahu ḍamina li-yaghnam lā li-yaghram . Ḥukiya anna al-Maʼmūn : ʻazama ʻalá taḍmīn al-sawād wa-ʻindahu ʻUbaydallāh bn al-Ḥasan al-ʻAnbarī al-qāḍī . Fa-qāla lahu : yā amīr al-muʼminīn : inna Allāh taʻālá qad dafaʻahā ilayka amānah , fa-lā tukhrijhā min yadika qibālah . Fa-ʻadala ʻan al-ḍamān

Fa-hādhā tafṣīl mā taʻallaqa bi-wizārat al-tafwīḍ min ʻaqd wa-ḥall wa-taqlīd wa-ʻazl .

Faṣl

(Wizārat al-tanfīdh)

Wa-ammā wizārat al-tanfīd : fa-hiya akhaṣṣ , li-quṣūrihā ʻammā ishtamalat ʻalayhi wizārat al-tafwīḍ wa-ikhtiṣāṣihā min ʻumūm al-tafwīḍ bi-arbaʻat qawānīn :

Fa-al-faṣl al-awwal min qawānīnihā : al-sifārah bayna al-malik wa-ahl mamlakatihi , li-anna al-malik muʻaẓẓam bi-al-ḥijāb , maṣūn ʻan al-mubāsharah bi-al-khiṭāb , fa-iqtaḍá an yakhtaṣṣa bi-safīrin muḥtashim ; wa-wazīrin muʻaẓẓam , yuṭāʻ fī-mā yūriduhu ʻanhu min al-awāmir wa-al-nawāhī , wa-yuhāb fī-mā yataḥammaluhu ilayhi min al-maṭālib wa-al-mabāghī ; li-yakūna li-al-malik lisānan nāṭiqan , wa-udhnan wāʻiyah.