Now that I’m free again, I have time to read. Books and stuff. A few interesting scraps for today:
افضل الجهاد كلمة حق عند سلطان جائر
“The best form of jihad is a word of truth to a tyrannical ruler.” (Hadith no. 4011 from the Sunan Ibn Majah)
And Abu Bakr’s great inaugural address:
“Oh people, I have been entrusted with authority over you, but I am not the best of you. Help me if I am right and correct me if I am wrong.” (recounted by Abd al-Malik Ibn Hashim in his Sirah al-Nabawiyya)
I too want my rulers to be that modest.
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends,
it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Islamic wisdom
I can't fault either of these (via the welcome return of the Skeptic):
Hello! I couldn't read all your posts: some because I need more time to read them and some because I couldn't underestand them (my mother tongue is Spanish)..
ReplyDeleteBut I congratulate you for this post.
I think everywhere we wish the same.
Salome, I agree. Il me faut ecrire en francaise de temps a temps, peut etre.
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