Day 2
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Signs that AbuBakr was to be the next Khalifah

1) When Rasuallah (saw) was sick, he would tell AbuBakr to lead the prayer
2) A woman asked Rasuallah (saw) a question. She was told to come later and if he wasn't found to go to AbuBakr.

Leadership of AbuBakr

1) Person who leads people in their deen should be able to lead in the Dunya as well.
2) Greatest Imam isn;t the one with the best recitation. An Eloquent voice isn't the criteria.
3) Putting future leaders in the public eye at critical times.

*An Imam is the one with most knowledge and wisdom*

- AbuBakr was to lead the prayer but the sisters couldn't hear him so Umar led the prayer instead. Rasuallah (saw) got angry and said that Allah refuses everyone but AbuBakr.

Why study the lives of the Khualafaa Ar-Rashidun?

1) It gives you a map of what the real Islam looks like.
2) Grow in your thankfulness for those who scarificed their lives to make Islam alive.
3) Start to know where you come from.
4) Have guidelines on what to do during a time of fitnah.
5) Learn practical tips and tricks on how to be a leader.
6) Open your eyes and don't get caught up in the labels.
7) Motivitional strategies.

*Follow the Sunnah and the sunnah of the Khulafaa Ar-Rasihdeen*

- AbuBakr's Inauguration speech:

"O Men! Here I have been assigned the job of being a ruler over you while I am not the best among you. If I do well in my job, help me. If I do wrong, redress me. Truthfulness is fidelity, and lying is treason. The weak shall be strong in my eyes until I restore to them their lost rights, and the strong shall be weak in my eye until I have restored the rights of the weak from them. No people give up fighting for the cause of God but God inflicts upon them abject subjection; and no people give themselves to lewdness but God envelops them with misery. Obey me as long as I obey God and His Prophet. But if I disobey God's command or His Prophet's, then no obedience is incumbent upon you. Rise to your prayer, that God may bless you."

1) Him being the Khalifah was baded on the decision of the ummah.
2) Leaders being followed when follwoing the way of Allah (swt)
3) Ummah be mindful of his politics
4) Continous responsibility in Justice, Jihad.

-A condition of the khulafaa is being from the Quraish.

*The farther you delay honesty, the harder you fall*