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EPISODE 5️⃣: Protests Violate the Right of the Messenger (ﷺ) to be Obeyed (Cont’d)
Once during the trials of Imam Ahmad, one of the people of innovations, Ibn Thaljee, told caliph Mutawakkil (who took over from Waathiq) that Imam Ahmad was secretly mobilizing the people and that they have started pledging allegiance to him.
The caliph sent some people to investigate the matter and they found nothing.
When they approached Imam Ahmad, he (رحمه الله) said, “I know nothing about that; neither did I do anything like that or have any of such in mind. I certainly believe that the leader of the Muslims must be obeyed in the secret and public, when I am in difficulty and ease, regarding what I like or dislike even if I am deprived (of my rights). And I supplicate to Allah for his rectification and success day and night.”
[Al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah (6/44).
This position of the Imam (رحمه الله) is based on an authentic hadeeth of the Prophet (ﷺ) cited in the next point].
Public demonstrations against constituted authority therefore, is a violation of the order of the Prophet (ﷺ) and the explanations of the companions and the classical scholars after them (رحمهم الله) to be patient, God-fearing and supplicatory when constituted authority rules unsatisfactorily.
To be continued… إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ
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