If I do well, help me, and if I do ill, then put me right.
Truth consists in loyalty and falsehood in treachery.
If a people refrain from fighting in the way of God, God will smite them with disgrace. Wickedness is never widespread in a people but God brings calamity upon them all. Obey me as long as I obey God and His apostle, and if I disobey them - you owe me no obedience. Rashidin, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, because they governed in accordance with Muhammad's principles. Ali in particular emphasized that a Muslim ruler must not be tyrannical.