Lesson fifty one :Signs of oppressor

Imam Ali( A. S. )says:

لِلظّالِمِ ثلاثُ عَلاماتٍ: يَظْلِمُ مَنَ فَوْقَهُ بِالْمَعْصِيَةِ وَ مَنْ دُوْنَهُ بِالْغَلَبَةِ، وَ يُظاهِرُ الْقَوْمَ الظَّلَمَةِ

Translation

The oppressor has three signs: oppresses those who are higher than him through opposition and disobedience, and oppresses those who are inferior to him through violence and predominance, and cooperates with other oppressors..

Brief description

One whose spirit of oppression prevails his mind, and is affected by this unclean morality, shows himself somehow in any case. He refrains performing his duties before those who he shall obey them, and resorts to oppression, force, violence and injustice before his inferiors, and selects his friends and companions and colleagues from among the unjust. He is always unjust but shows himself in an appropriate form to that case.