he has nothing to do with the matter unless he brings it to you and reminds you of what he has whether it is little or much and you find yourself busy or free because that is more spent from you and people are quicker to it and hearts are more at peace with it and it is greater in the eyes because god has placed in you good choice and knowledge of the benefits of the servants and the interests of the country since you were the one who is sought and convinced and the imams and the one who turns. and were it not for what you were entrusted with of the matter of the group and the care of the special and the general and that the preoccupation with looking after its rights and defending it there would not have been left in your strength any surplus for supplication and dispute and for placing books with answers and questions the obligation would have begun with you but you are more deserving of this matter.
عنده من الأمر شيء، إلا أن يأتيكم به، ويذكركم بما عنده، قل ذلك أو كثر، وصادفمنكم شغلا أو فراغا، لأن ذلك من عندكم أنفق، والناس إليه أسرع، والقلوب إليه أسكن، وهو في العيون أعظم، لما جعل الله عندكم من حسن الاختيار، والعلم بمنافع العباد، ومصالح البلاد؛ إذ كنتم المفزع والمقنع، والأئمة والمنزع. ولولا ما قلدتم من أمر الجماعة، والقيام بشأن الخاصة والعامة، وأن الشغل برعاية حقها والدفاع عنها، لم يبق في قواكم فضلا للدعاء والمنازعة، ولوضع الكتب بالجواب والمسألة لبدأ بكم الفرض، ولكنتم أحق بهذا الأمر.