“I shall sort you out with this…” December 10, 2007
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Shaykh ‘Abdullah al-Faisal (hafidhullah) mentioned in his lecture on leadership the incident where ‘Umar (radiyallahu ‘anhu) takes the position of Khalifah and a man pulls out his sword and says in public to ‘Umar (along the lines of), “If you should ever stray from the Sunnah of Rasool (sallallahu ‘alayhi wassallam) and what Abu Bakr laid down, I shall sort you out with this sword of mine!” And he shows his sword to ‘Umar.
‘Umar didn’t call the security on this man nor did he arrest this man. Instead ‘Umar was happy. ‘Umar said that he was glad that there were people in this Ummah that were on the right path.
So Shaykh ‘Abdullah al-Faisal goes,
“Now can you go to any Country like Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia etc… and pull out your Kalashnikov and say to King Fahd (for example), ‘If you don’t come back to Qur’aan and Sunnah, then I’m going to sort you out with this Kalashnikov of mine!”
The point is, back then, we were able to openly confront our rulers and correct them where they went wrong. Is such a thing heard of today?
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Allahu AKbar - it is like when someone asked Hazarat Ali (R.A) that there was peace and harmony during the Khilafat of Abu bakar sadiq, Uthman and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them all) and on reply to him by Hazart Ali (R.A.) was priceless: We were the Vazir of them and now you are our Vazir.