Shadee Elmasry – How the Caliphs Were Chosen
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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.