و من كلام له عليه السلام فيما رده على المسلمين من قطائع عثمان
وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ وَجَدْتُهُ قَدْ تُزُوِّجَ بِهِ النِّسَاءُ وَ مُلِكَ بِهِ الْإِمَاءُ لَرَدَدْتُهُ فَإِنَّ فِي الْعَدْلِ سَعَةً وَ مَنْ ضَاقَ عَلَيْهِ الْعَدْلُ فَالْجَوْرُ عَلَيْهِ أَضْيَقُ
A Sermon from Imam Ali (a.s)
After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:
By Allah, even if I had found that by such money women have been married or slave-maids have been purchased I would have resumed it because there is wide scope in dispensation of justice, and he who finds it hard to act justly should find it harder to deal with injustice.