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EPISODE 3️⃣: Protests Violate the Right of the Messenger (ﷺ) to be Obeyed (Cont’d)
In another report, Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) reported that Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Jibreel visited me and said, “Your Ummah will be afflicted after you.”
I asked, From what angles?
Jibreel answered, “From their leaders and learned ones. The leaders will deprive the people of their rights; they will fight for their rights and be put to affliction. The learned ones will follow those leaders and be put to affliction.”
I asked, “How will the saved among them gain refuge?”
Jibreel said, “By holding back and being patient. If they are given their rights, they take it but if they are deprived, they leave it.‟
[Musnad Umar bin al-Khattaab (2/659).
Hafidh Ibn Hajar cited it in Fath al-Baaree (13/9) and was silent on it implying that it is at least Hasan (Sound) as is his way in the book.]
“Whosoever sees something in his leader he dislikes should be patient. For whoever rises up against the community by a hand’s length and dies, such has died as (the death of) the days of Ignorance.”
[Collected by Al-Bukhaaree (7054) and Muslim (4790).]
Unequivocally, the narrations show that the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that Muslims should in the face of the leader’s injustice:
1️⃣ – hold back and be patient and
2️⃣ – ask Allah for their needs.
Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) said to Suwayd bin Gafalah: “Perhaps you may live after me. Obey the leader even if he be an Abyssinian slave. If he beats you, be patient and if he deprives you, be patient. If he invites you to something that reduces your worldly status, say: I hear and obey, my blood is more down than my religion.”
[Ash-Sharee’ah (74) and (75) with the checking and editing of Fareed Abdul-‘Azeez al-Jundee and graded Saheeh (authentic).]
The order for patience, piety and supplications when the ruler rules unsatisfactorily is also highlighted in the following narrations from the eminent taabi’ee, Imam Hasan al-Basree (رحمه الله).
He said, “You should know—may Allah preserve you—that the oppression of the leaders is one of the punishments from Allāh (ﷻ), and the punishment of Allāh cannot be faced with the sword. It is only avoided and removed through supplications, repentance, turning to Allāh and abstaining from sins.
When Allāh’s punishment is faced with the sword, it becomes more severe.”
[Aadaab al-Hasan al-Basree li Ibn Jawzee (pg. 119-120).]
The Imam (رحمه الله) also said: “By Allāh, if when the people are tried from their leaders they exercise patience, they will not stay long before Allāh the Mighty and Sublime will remove that from them. But they hasten towards the sword and are abandoned to it. By Allāh, they have never brought a better day.”
[See: Ash-Sharee‟ah (66).]
Then he read the verse:
“And the fair Word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because of their endurance. And We destroyed completely all the great works and buildings which Fir’aun and his people erected.”
[Al-A’araaf: 137.
The Children of Israel patiently endured the harsh treatment of Fir’aon, supplicating to Allāh and being fearful of Him. So, He the Mighty and Sublime liberated them and destroyed the oppressor—and the refuge is with Allāh].
To be continued…إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ
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