Shadee Elmasry – How the Caliphs Were Chosen

If you're confused about a verse that says, Do this, do that, do

look at the Prophet, what did he do?

Now, if you want further explanation, certain situations

the Prophet was not in certain situations, right?

The Prophet was not in certain situations. So what do we do? We

need to know what to do. The Prophet peace be upon him says,

you follow my way, follow my example, in the example of the

rightly guided, Khalifa was after me. So, the five leaders after the

Prophet peace be upon him, we follow their examples. So they're

examples is part of our religion, what they did their judgments. And

why do we say these five leaders because the Prophet peace be upon

him said, right. The rightly guided rule, after me is 30 years

of effort to embody that as soon as center 30 years, so who ruled

for 30 years after the Prophet peace be upon him? Abu Bakr for

two years, Almighty for 10 years, or thumbin, for 13 years, Holly

for five and a half years. So there's six months left her son,

his son has been for six months. These are five rulers that we

follow, and their example. Right, we hold on to it, and we study it

and we examine it. And we take benefits from it and we take

rulings from it if it's a new situation, that didn't happen in

the time of the prophet, but it did happen in the time of these

coniferous, okay, these rightly guided rulers, right, then it

becomes our source of knowledge of right and wrong truth and

falsehood and judgments of what to do.

Alright, so let's talk about how these videos came about. Abu Bakar

rules for two years, how did Abu Bakar become look at the Prophet

peace be upon him passed away?

And when the Prophet passed away, peace be upon him. He did not

leave.

He did not say who is going to rule after him. However, he did

tell make Abu Bakr the imam in the masjid when he was sick on his

deathbed. Okay. So afterwards when people were discussing Okay, the

prophet has died, who's gonna rule now? Right then Omar Abel hardtop,

he gave took the hand of, of Abu Bakr and said, I give you

allegiance, and then all the Muslims agreed and gave the rule

to Abubaker. Right. So the consensus of the Muslims was upon

Abu Bakar. Right, so they chose him.

When Abu Bakr was dying, though, he did something different.

He appointed Omar and he talked to some of the sahaba. He said, What

do you think if I appoint Ahmed, they all agreed, right? The few he

that he talked to, so he appointed on whatever hubbub, so everyone

knows is going to be Alma.

Now when Omar was on his deathbed

All right, how did he choose the next Khalifa he didn't choose. But

he chose six people that he thought could rule. He chose six

of the best companions that he thought would be all good

coniferous.

Then he chose his son, and he said, Son, administer a meeting

between these six and make sure they all agree upon one min. But

you can't be the Khalifa. This is his son, Abdullah ibn Omar. And so

they did this.

And they chose Othman had been often the sahabi. He was the

older, oldest one at the time, off man had been our fan and he rode

for 13 years, then oh, man, he followed the example the profit by

not doing anything. And when he was when he died, when northmen

died, and we'll talk about how they all died. When Ottoman died,

he didn't choose anyone. So the Muslims were left without a ruler.

So they all gathered in the masjid. And they said, Well, who

was the best amongst us and the most capable, and they chose it.

Right? Holly's gonna be fun. And early as well follow the example

of the Prophet peace be upon him. And he did like Othman in that he

was, uh, when he died, he did not appoint anyone. So he left it to

the people and the people chose his son hasn't.

Okay, so this is how the 3k lifts are chosen, right? Or the 5k lifts

were chosen and the rule passed from one to the next. Okay.

Now, let's talk about how it ended for Hesson.

With Hesson they've been avatar, he didn't pass it on to anyone

upon his death. What happened was, there was a large group of Muslims

and there was a civil war. And he chose to end the civil war by

giving up his rule. This is called abdication. It's

abdicate, to willfully give it away. And he gave it to the rival

who was fighting him, near Maui. And while we're counts as the

first king in Islam, because he ruled in a different way, he was

still a companion. Right? And he kept the prayers in the fast and

he did good. But he ruled in a slightly different way more like a

monarchy. Okay, so he's considered and he announced himself to be the

first king of the Arabs. So he's a little different. So he doesn't

count amongst the Rightly Guided caliphs. But he's not also totally

bad either. He's good. But he's not like these five is would never

happen if you understand that. It's always from Allah and Allah

has chosen this situation to happen equally. You can dislike

somebody's action if it's sinful, but you won't take it personal.

And so it's this deeper understanding that everything that

happens in your life is in accordance to what Allah has

desired, and chosen for you at every single moment. It frees you

from associating any kind of power to other creative beings.