With the Hadith
"Chapter on the Best and Worst of Leaders"
We greet you all, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting, so peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
It is mentioned in Sahih Muslim in Al-Nawawi's explanation "with modifications" in "Chapter on the Best and Worst of Leaders"
Narrated Ishaq bin Ibrahim Al-Hanzali from Awf bin Malik, from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: "The best of your leaders are those whom you love and who love you, who pray for you and for whom you pray. And the worst of your leaders are those whom you hate and who hate you, whom you curse and who curse you." It was said, "O Messenger of God, should we not confront them with the sword?" He said, "No, as long as they establish prayer among you. And if you see in your rulers something you dislike, then dislike his actions, but do not withdraw a hand from obedience."
The saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "The best of your leaders are those whom you love and who love you, who pray for you and for whom you pray" means that they pray: i.e., they supplicate.
Dear listeners:
One can hardly believe what one hears and sees happening in Muslim countries, east and west. Rulers who were breastfed on subservience and betrayal, and who stood against the nation, so they killed its sons, humiliated its elders, raped its women, violated its sanctities, severed its ties, and plundered its wealth. The list of shame is long, and it hardly stops, as it goes on with life for them. But the question is, until when? Until when will this shame and humiliation of the nation continue? And how will our children read this history twenty years from now or more? Therefore, they deserve the curse mentioned in the hadith with distinction. O God, deal with Bashar and his gang, his thugs and his yappers, and all the treacherous and fallen Muslim rulers, and rid the nation of their evils, for they are the devils of this time. O God, we bear witness to you that we hate them and work to sweep them out of our countries after killing them and crushing them. O God, grant us entry into their palaces and grant us their shoulders, and make us among those who triumph for these oppressed people of the nation, whom their rulers have singled out for these decades, so that we may write with their killing the beginning of a new era, with letters of honor and elevation, the era of the Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, the glad tidings of our noble Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - and the promise of our Lord in His Noble Book. So do not be deceived by the world, O Muslims, and refrain from working with those who work, and leave this abundant good.
Dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
