Sadullah Khan – Responsibility of Leadership in our Country
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The importance of witnessing Islamist movement's story is emphasized, along with the need for leaders to act like leaders and hold accountable for their actions. Leadership is a responsibility for personality, including elevating the people, alleviating racism and human rights. The democratic era in South Africa is discussed, including the need for morality and a focus on practicality. The importance of leaders in modern times is emphasized, including the need for empathy and a focus on practicality.
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Yesterday was quite a historic day in the history of our country.
But also an indictment in some way that in the past
three leaders we had in a country with such a noble struggle.
The two of them were able to fool
for the turn.
And of course, we find that one of the Presidents the last one had to
resign
in that the new president was
instituted.
And in his introductory speech, Cyril Ramaphosa
said something
he said, among other things, is the leader of the people, is the
servant of the people.
And this is in fact, the echoing of the sentiments and the words of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa, he was the Hadith documented by
the Asaka. Whether a soldier
say you do come ha,
the leader of the people serves the people. And those colors
question the degree of authenticity of this narration.
Nonetheless, it's an integral part of Islamic thought and ethics,
that the statement is considered as part of the Islamic tradition,
the leader of the people serves the people and the one who serves
the people qualifies, then only to lead.
There are two primary roles of leadership.
responsibilities are many but the roles there are two primary roles
of leadership. And this is a lesson for people in political
leadership, but also in religious leadership, whether it be heads of
an institution, whether the principal for the school, whether
it be heads of department, whether you're a prefect, with the head,
prefect at the school, no pressure
or whether you are
the head
prefect of the school or the prefect in your class,
whether you're a manager unions on your business or institution, or
workplace, those are people under them, they have a degree of
responsibility for that position is an Amana is a trust for which
we're specifically held accountable as a result it
will come look
at each and every one of you is
a shepherd, so to say a guardian of things, so to say. And each and
every one of you will be held accountable for whoever and
whatever is under guardianship, whether it be health, whether it
be other people, whatever it may be, you will be held accountable
to Allah for that which is under your protection and under your
guardianship. And therefore, the demand is the company in relation
to the President being elected which we speak about, and also the
lessons we learned from that because that to tax upon our
entire society,
the leadership will determine the direction of the country will
determine our freedoms
will determine with our fat fiber ation is being realized or not
being sold out, as it was done in the past few years.
So two
rungs of leadership responsibilities are many, but two
ways in which any form of leadership you find yourself one,
the servant leader, who wants to say, and through sailors acquires
authority, which becomes manifested, due to the person's
involvement in the concern for the welfare of the people being led.
And this is I mentioned, in keeping with the perfect
tradition,
that say will conquer the leader of the people serve the people
and also the other form of leadership. The other role is
Guardian leader, Guardian leadership, which aims at
protecting the community
against
against oppression, against unfairness against injustice,
against painless and pleases the primary responsibility of that
leadership on the care of the people. That is who our scholars
have said that the Hadith scholars have said, in the lions
calf era, well is your volume, well, O'Connor, Amina, Allah will
support a just authority, even if the authority is unbelieving,
Allah will not support an unjust authority. Even the people in
power are believers in Allah in some
kind of copula.
Because the responsibility of leadership is not so much the
faith, but how the faith manifests itself in justice and beneficial
action for those who are under your care.
So each one is responsible for what is under his or her case. And
therefore, leader in any positions of leadership has to have
essential qualities and features of integrity. Maybe people are in
a coma.
Hikmah of wisdom, multi people have these, you can leave if you
don't know.
People, interesting insight,
people understanding and a force
pull for us.
We look at our country, and many of our people died. We only met
a man who gave his life for the struggle. This is
a man who died for
the freedoms that we have and we fighting for and some of which are
being usurped and abused.
So let me start started our democratic era with Nelson
Mandela, and ended up with Jacob Zuma.
We now have Cyril Ramaphosa, sworn in as our fourth president.
You see the flow of leaders. He's an indication
of the direction into which we are heading
to Zuma, whose leadership was mired in corruption
and decides the prevailing crime in our country of which each and
every one of us is a victim of embezzlement and corporate fraud
has, in recent years been pervading the country of each
country. I've been to over 30 countries in my life.
And I can tell you of all the countries if it was not for crime
and corruption, safety and security. There is no country to
make South Africa in its beauty in its people and its potential and
its wealth
and its future. If
It was safeguarded from crime and corruption.
Many government parastatals are virtually out of control, bloated
and infested with fraud, deceit, cronyism, with friends in power
and rich themselves.
On this, while the masses are denied the basic needs, and those
who are politically connected are increasingly losing the beauty of
the souls in exchange for the perks that come with corrupt self
enrichment.
He said leadership is about trust,
Amman,
leadership is a responsibility, but a responsibility with social
and moral obligations.
So we should be cautious when you choose leaders, whether religious
or otherwise or political, who we choose as our leaders.
Because sometimes we get the leaders we deserve.
Leadership is not about people, and about personality, about
people surrounding you, but about having the characteristics and the
ability to elevate the people and alleviate the problems. Mr.
Musharraf, I said it very beautifully. In Al Faqih, who will
fucky who befall you, Razor fucky who may not be he or may call you
but
the razor is to be called me he was early because he was running
up Harley Race it was only up monkey will be muddy. If true
fucking is not the one how well he writes in his mix. But how he was
able to manifest the rules and regulations of the faith.
summarize how many people are surrounding the leader, but the
how much moral character he does he or she displays. Similarly, a
rich person is going to how much roughly possess but how contented
you are with what you have.
So in deciding upon leadership,
as increase
in many Muslim countries, unfortunately, leaders are not
chosen, they are imposed.
So become so accustomed to separating politics, from
religion, and all the wars are being fought by political
authorities. And we are silent about it because we don't engage
in politics, it directly affects our fight.
So in deciding upon leadership asks, What does a new president
offer?
Does he have the aptitude, the ability, humility, the honesty,
the transparency, the integrity, and the capacity to lead us in the
right direction? Or move us to a better place than where we are? At
least there is a person have optimism or pessimism does he
offer awkward display genuine change of cosmetic alterations?
Will he alleviate the condition of the nation and elevate the quality
of the lives of the people by addressing the basic concerns and
championing championing the fundamental causes.
The dominance of corruption has indeed tarnish the memory of a
fantastic and noble struggle we had from the time of Tang guru
to non Harun and beyond.
And the scourge of corruption is indeed a spiritual, a mouth any
social concern.
It's an evident abuse of entrusted power is a violation of a
fundamental Amana of trust.
Nation of human rights when you put people in power and take the
money which you pay your taxes and build their own homes, and feed
their own friends and build homes in other parts of the world. It
undermines human dignity
and it needs to be arrested. By all means necessary.
We do now the leader we have right now has experienced the poverty of
Soweto was imprisoned for opposing the racist regime. We do know that
you are an accomplished trade union leader who is now president.
These are good credentials on paper of course. But this
businessman who has amassed tremendous amount of love,
multimillionaires ease has a lot to do still to prove that he
currently has a genuine concern of the poor and the downtrodden at
heart.
And the least we expect from leadership
is to clear up the force in the scum in the parliament who
profited at the expense of others, filling their pockets while people
went and are still going hungry.
For him to make truly a credible president. He must lead a
government that cares about the Asian the young, the poor and the
oppressed. And he must remain unapologetic about the obligation
of the ongoing struggle and project of freedom and liberation.
You
In South Africa, in Palestine as a part of the world,
in his pursuance of justice, in the restoration of rights, in the
returning of land of people who land had been stolen, standing
firm on principles, demanding accountability from comrades,
leaders, who have sacrificed the objective of the struggle at the
altar of greedy, selfish self interest
of one of the great revolutionary leaders, Robert Mongolia should do
great who said at that time, let me repeat your view, oh lovers of
my Africa, to carry with you into the world, the vision of you and
the better Africa.
But each and every one of us in particularly the youth, remember,
the pathway to leadership be service and also the means of
preparing yourself for any leadership requires
that knowledge and skill you're out Allah Allah.
Allah says Allah will elevate those who are faith, and those who
have knowledge by degrees, and Allah is well informed about
everything that you do.
In a hadith, that also said Allah Azza wa sallam said
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assaulted,
you must learn, seek knowledge and among the things in that hadith
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Rasul Allah said, acquire knowledge for it elevates the
people and through knowledge, Allah makes people leaders in
righteousness, in model and in morality.
So the Islamic
perspective of effective leadership, the leaders may not be
Muslim or Islamic, but the qualities we expect are universal
values, leadership of moral authority, leadership with
integrity and with credibility. Leadership providing people with a
sense of worth, a sense of direction or sense of purpose,
through inspiration through motivation, and through
appropriate action.
A genuine leader is going to position you find yourself in
President or class president, head of state or head prefect of the
school, head
of a of an institution as a principal, or whether they be the
head of a corporate company.
Leader, a genuine leader is compassionate or spirit has a
positive attitude.
You must close the means of engagement for two words, displays
empathic behavior,
and from whose loving examples others can learn, and more
importantly, who's prepared to learn from others, not so
disqualified from teaching and those who refuse to learn from
others, not so disqualified from teaching as those who refuse to
learn from others. So in other words, for most living example, or
risk can learn and he himself or she herself is prepared to learn,
say now the Karim Allah wa just said, My NASA holiness Imam and
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when they contact me but we'll be see rotti he publicly but
whatever sets himself a task of leading other people, let him
begin by correcting himself.
Teach us what is right, and then do what is correct.
A true leader is likable and lovable, respectable and
respectful. So Sal, Allahu alayhi wa sallam, the greatest leader of
all time, that could the con Allah con, fie Rasulillah hustler naman,
can you average allah how valuable was that Kerala Kira? Surely in
the perfect example of Allah, you have the ideal exemplar
leaders. So Allah said about the good.
He says, You're a boy who
is one who loves the people and the people loves him. So a true
leader
is likable, lovable, respectable, respectful, must have the capacity
to unite.
Not divide must have the ability to simplify, rather than
complicate must be practical, must be realistic. And my must be
pragmatic, realistic, practical, and pragmatic. And if you look at
the life of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam in
various phases, where there's a press person in Makkah, or whether
eventually is head of state of Medina, he displayed the qualities
of excellence in every dimension, but the leader is an imam of the
masjid
of the armed forces, or whether as a head of state of Medina, may
Allah subhanaw taala grant, that we have leaders who will look at
the interests of the people.
And we have the courage of our conviction, to stand up and speak
His truth and not be afraid to speak truth to power and maybe
rise above party political affiliation to what is true and
what is right now Allah subhanaw taala guide us, may Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless us, and may Allah subhanaw taala grant, this
beautiful country of ours is a noble history. This is a great
struggle, and specifically the history of how people are in Islam
in this country is indeed the most beautiful and fascinating history.
May Allah subhanho wa Taala that we as time unfolds in these young
men and women who are here, may they unfold and perpetuate the
legacy of twang guru of cardiac salah of Sufism, and of Imam
Abdullah rune Aquila kolyada. Was the for Allah Salam aleykum.
Selam Aleykum
wabarakatuh
as Muslims, we should always