Selecting competent officials and dismissing incompetent officials and not employing traitors and incompetents;

Planning and organization: The Imam writes in his famous letter to Malik Ashtar: "Do each day's work on the same day; because each day has its own work... Avoid haste in doing things that have not yet come, and laxity when it is possible to do them, or undue insistence when it is unknown and ambiguous, or laxity when it is clear and obvious! Establish every work in its place and do every work at its time";

Lawfulness;

Appointing a watchman to watch over the officials and being generous in providing for the officials: The Imam writes in his letter to Malik: "Make abundant provision for them (the officials); Because this is a force for reforming their souls, and a cause of freedom for them, so that they do not touch the wealth they have, and it is a proof against them if they do not accept your command or betray your trust.