multiplied results because the two men lived at one time. The second only came to complement the first. The second was the halo of the first and the first was the structure of the second.

In reality, it cannot be denied that Ali b. Abi Talib, that shining created intellect, through constantly being associated with his cousin, the Apostle, was his first helper and his most excellent advisor in all his affairs concerned with protecting the new Message and preparing for the means of its success. At the same time, the valiant struggler, that intrepid hero, acted in defence of it; it was defence by a believer who was firmly-rooted in knowledge of its correctness and the truth of acting on its behalf.

At first that was on behalf of the Arabian Peninsula . . . then it was on behalf of the Message itself, insofar as it would become - without doubt - the Message of the Arabian Peninsula for man wherever man could be found. He was not one to proclaim the truth of what he was saying without being the first in whom the value of what he was saying was reflected.

The values of every word of the Message, which Ali b. Abi Talib proclaimed, after having shared in carrying it out, in producing it and in protecting it, he used to hear in such a way that those values were truly reflected in him, were closely connected to him in all his words and actions and all plans, both immediate and distant. He began to deliver it as a constant pattern for his own life so that through it he should be a living example for others.

In order to make ready a perfect society, he relied on the human personality being attached to virtues as a firm basis to which was guaranteed a sound intellect to understand, a sound program to follow and a sound acknowledgement to declare.

The building of the personality of man through reason, ideals and personal qualities was the most outstanding undertaking of Ali b. Abi Talib in the development of the Arabian Peninsula.

He began with himself. There is the value of the great. When I say "he began", I do not mean "he tried". Indeed the first  rules

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