Leadership of the Prophets- Muhammad Al Shareef & Yasser Haddara

Yasser Haddara

What does it mean?
-Trust
-Responsibility

Leadership to what?
-Taking a group of peole and pointing them towards a certain direction
-Maybe good or evil
-Fight the leaders of disbelief; of rejection
-Evil--> Pharaoh--> lead his people to Hell-fire
-Prophets--> make them our role models-bringer of good news, warner, and caller of ALlah (swt)

Leadership-->Everyone is a shepherd and everyone is responsible of their flock.

-View it as an Amanah (A Trust)
- You will be accountable to Allah (swt)
- You will accountable to your fellow Muslims.

Not a status symbol
-When did you turn people into slaves that mothers gave birth to the free!
-If you lead a prayer and the congregation is used to reading loudly, he should agree as avoid fitnah.

Not always visible
-taking a group of people from point A to point B with motivation

What is needed, not what is desired

Leadership Role Models

1) Prophet (saw) "Indeed in the Messenger of Allah (Muhammad SAW) you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting with) Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much." (33:21)

2)Prophets of Allah (swt)-those are the ones God has guided.

3) Followers of the Prophet

Sabr (Patience and Perseverance)
-They had patience-Faith in action
-Musa (AS) was constantly tested by his people

-Noah (AS)"My lord, I have called to my people by your night and by your day but my calls have only increased them in fleeing"

-Yusuf (AS)--> He was put in prison and when he was let free he refused and said "You put me here under false accusation, go investigate and clear my name"

Guarding the Covenant

-Prophet Ismail (AS) described by this key quality
-Prophet Ibrahim (AS) given covenant. Does not extend to those that do injustice.
-Key quality of messengers and followers--> being truthful

Firm belief and submission

-Ibrahim (AS) was devoutly obedient to Allah (swt)

"Verily, Ibrahim (Abraham) was an Ummah (a leader having all the good righteous qualities), or a nation, obedient to Allah, Hanifa (i.e. to worship none but Allah), and he was not one of those who were Al-Mushrikun (polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and those who joined partners with Allah)." (16:120)

-Maryam (AS)
And Mary the daughter of `Imran who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into her (body) of Our spirit; and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of His Revelations and was one of the devout (Servants)

Sacrifice
"Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return." (2:156)

-Allah (swt) will test you against your blessings
-Leadership of Islam--> Trust
-Leadership of Kufr--> "It's all mine" thinking goes on.

Ibrahim (AS)--> leaving his wife Hajar in the desert
Yusuf (AS)--> being put in prison

Humbleness & Seeking Forgivness
-Surah Hud
-Commandment to seek forgiveness represented consistently

5 Qualities
-->Patience
-->Truth
-->Submisson
-->Sacrifice
-->Seeking Forgivness

REQUIRED for all believers and especially leaders

Characteristics of a leader

Optimisim
-be optimistic and lift the spirits of members who look at you
-Battle of the Trench

Vision
-Prophets always understood where they were going. They all had a vision.

Muhammad Al-Shareef

-When the Prophet (saw) died at his funeral, his companions were already thinking about the next leader. They didn't wait a day, a week or whatever time.

When you were younger and your parents let you drive the car and they sat in the back. What would happen? You would have gotten into a crash, serious injuries. Same thing with a muslim community with no leader. It'll crash.

-How does the muslim ummah go back to the Quran and Sunnah? By Having a leader.

-Before you have a vision, you need a leader

1) You need a model of what to do
2) ProximityPeople you can call on. You can support them and they can support you
3) See things that other people dont

-When Muhammad Al-Shareef started Al-Maghrib, he was told he couldn't do it. But he thought ahead and had a vison. And now he has 3000 students.

4)Leader from the back and front
--> from the back- Shura (consultation). When a person is overthrown it is usually because the don't consult.
-->from the front. Be firm on your decisions and lead!

*Advice from Muhammad Al-Shareef: Be part of a Dawah Organization and take on a fundamental activist part*