Family Management based on Imam Ali’s Letters (Treaty) to Malik Ashtar

Making efforts to deal with the subject- “Family Management based on Imam Ali’s Letters (Treaty) to Malik Ashtar” was formed based on this idea that today to present an applied and ideal model on family management seems to be necessary, because belief in the infrastructural role of family in creating basic changes in societies is a fundamental issue. Imam Ali (a.s.), the great scholar of humanity and education, in Malik Ashtar Treaty, has addressed him (who was an individual aware of the Ali (a.s.) personality and competent to govern a great country with an old civilization such as Egypt) and written him certain commandments which is sufficient for presenting the Alavi management model. In the educational and managerial system included in this treaty, there are deep points which make them suitable for the creation of basic changes in all levels of human societies. Imam Ali’s method in presenting a managerial model has been completely systematic and he has dealt with the elaboration of the role and position of managers within the framework of a process and places priority on the correction of their attitude. Introducing himself as “Abd Allah” (Servant of God), Hazart Amir (a.s.) considers the first construction stone of this system as being the servant of God. After this introduction, out of the fourfold objectives mentioned in this commandment, he enumerates the correction of humanity as the greatest components. As the family is the smallest construction part of the society, the correction of society will be possible through correcting the components and creating a change in its attitudes. We believe that the macro view of Imam Ali (a.s.) towards all dimensions of a healthy society in these commandments has made the Treaty extendable to and useable in all domains of family management. In this article, materials have been collected in library method and it of the descriptive-analytical type. While studying the possibility of using the treaty in the domain of family management (and contemplation over the fact that it is not exclusively for macro and governmental management), we will try to portray its examples and also to elaborate the systematic method mentioned in the treaty. It is hoped that this could enable us to find out the position of this commandment as a vision document for humans’ common and individual life.