09 Government
9. Government
20:4473 - The Messenger of Allah said: People are to be subservient to the Quraish {the tribe to which Muhammad belonged}: the Muslims among them being subservient to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among the people being subservient to the disbelievers among them.
20:4476 - The Messenger of Allah said: The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left on the earth.
20:4477 - The Messenger of Allah said: This Caliphate will not end until there have been twelve Caliphs among them. All of them will be from the Quraish.
20:4483 - The Messenger of Allah said on Friday evening, the day on which al-Aslami was stoned to death for committing adultery: The Islamic religion will continue until the last Hour has been established, or you have been ruled over by twelve Caliphs, all of them being from the Quraish. A small force of the Muslims will capture the white palace, the police of the Persian Emperor or his descendants. Before the Day of Judgment there will appear (a number of) impostors. You are to guard against them. I will be your forerunner at the Cistern (at the entrance to paradise) expecting your arrival.
20:4505 - One day the Messenger of Allah stood among us (to deliver a sermon). He talked about the misappropriation of war booty, and declared it to be a serious matter and a grave sin. Then he said: I shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day of Judgment with a growling camel mounted on his neck, and should appeal to me for help saying: “Messenger of Allah, help me.” and I should say: I have no authority to help you; I already communicated to you. I shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day of Judgment with a bleating ewe mounted on his neck, and he should say to me: “Messenger of Allah, help me,” and I should say: I have no authority to help you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that one of you should come on the Day of Judgment with a Person crying loudly mounted on his neck, and he should say to me: “Messenger of Allah, help me,” and I should say: I have no authority to help you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that any one of you should come on the Day of Judgment with fluttering clothes wrapped round his neck and he should say to me: “Messenger of Allah, help me,” and I should say: I have no authority to help you; I conveyed to you. I shouldn't find that any of you should come on the Day of Judgment with a heap of gold and silver placed on his neck and he should say to me: “Messenger of Allah, help me.” and I should say: I have no authority to help you; I already conveyed to you the warning from the Almighty. {Muhammad was keen on ensuring the war booty, which included camels, ewes, people, clothes, gold and silver was not misappropriated by his jihadists. They were warned that such stolen items would be around their necks on the day of judgement.}
20:4518 - The Prophet said: Whoso obeys me obeys God, and whoso disobeys me disobeys God. Whoso obeys the commander appointed by me obeys me, and whoso disobeys the commander disobeys me.
20:4533 - The Prophet said: It is obligatory upon a Muslim that he should listen to the ruler appointed over him and obey him whether he likes it or not, except that he is ordered to do a sinful thing.
20:4543 - The Prophet said: Banu Isra'il were ruled over by the Prophets. When one Prophet died, another succeeded him; but after me there will be no prophets. There will be caliphs and they will be quite large in number. His Companions said: What do you order us to do in case we come to have more than one Caliph? He said: The one to whom allegiance is sworn first has a supremacy over the others. Concede to them their due rights (i.e. obey them). God Himself will question them about the subjects whom He had entrusted to them. {Muhammad claimed that there was a constant line of prophets that preceded him. However after him there will be none, only caliphs (Muslim leaders) who God will assign to rule.}
20:4546 - We gathered around the Messenger of Allah who said: It was the duty of every Prophet that has gone before me to guide his followers to what he knew was good for them and warn them against what he knew was bad for them; but this Umma of yours has its days of peace and security in the beginning of its career, and in the last phase of its existence it will be afflicted with trials and with things disagreeable to you. Whoever wishes to be delivered from the fire and enter the garden should die with faith in Allah and the Last Day. He who swears allegiance to a Caliph should give him the pledge of his hand and the sincerity of his heart. If another man comes forward as a claimant to the Caliphate, disputing his authority, they (the Muslims) should behead the latter.
20:4553 - Hudhaifa b. al-Yaman said: Messenger of Allah is there any bad time after this good one? He said: Yes. I asked: Will there be a good time again after that bad time? He said: Yes, (a time will come) when there will be people standing and inviting at the gates of Hell. Whoso responds to their call they will throw them into the fire. I said: Messenger of Allah, describe them for us. He said: All right. They will be a people having the same complexion as ours and speaking our language. I said: Messenger of Allah, what do you suggest if I happen to live in that time? He said: You should stick to the main body of the Muslims and their leader.
20:4554 - Hudhaifa b. al-Yaman said: Messenger of Allah, will there be a bad time after good time? He said: Yes. There will be leaders who will not be led by my guidance and who will not adopt my ways. There will be among them men who will have the hearts of devils in the bodies of human beings. I said: What should I do Messenger of Allah, if I happen to live in that time? He replied: You will listen to the Amir {Muslim military commander} and carry out his orders; even if your back is flogged and your wealth is snatched, you should listen and obey.
20:4555 – The Messenger of Allah said: One who defected from obedience and separated from the main body of the Muslims; if he died in that state, would die the death of one belonging to the days of Jahiliyya {i.e. would not die as a Muslim}.
20:4565 – The Messenger of Allah said: Different evils will make their appearance in the near future. Anyone who tries to disrupt the affairs of this Ummah while they are united you should strike him with the sword whoever he be.
20:4567 – The Messenger of Allah said: When you are holding to one single man as your leader, you should kill who seeks to undermine your solidarity or disrupt your unity.
20:4568 – The Messenger of Allah said: When oath of allegiance has been taken for two caliphs, kill the one for whom the oath was taken later.
20:4590 – Yazid b. Abu Ubaid said: I asked Salama as to what effect he had sworn allegiance to the Messenger of Allah on the Day of Hudaibiya. He said: To the effect that we will die fighting.
20:4595 – Mujashi' b. Mas'ud said: I brought my brother Abu Ma'bad to the Messenger of Allah after the conquest of Mecca and said: Messenger of Allah, allow him to swear his pledge of migration at your hand. He said: The period of migration is over; now nobody can get this meritorious distinction. I said: For what actions will you allow him to bind himself in oath? He said: He can do so for serving the cause of Islam, for fighting in the way of Allah and for fighting in the cause of virtue.
20:4597 – The Messenger of Allah said on the day of the Conquest of Mecca: There is no Hijra (migration) now, but only Jihad, fighting for the cause of Islam, and sincerity of purpose have great reward; when you are asked to set out on an expedition undertaken for the cause of Islam you should readily do so.
20:4605 – Ibn 'Umar said: The Messenger of Allah inspected me on the battlefield on the Day of Uhud, and I was fourteen years old. He did not allow me to take part in the fight. He inspected me on the Day of Khandaq, and I was fifteen years old, and he permitted me to fight. Nafi' said: I came to 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz who was then Caliph, and narrated this tradition to him. He said: Surely, this is the demarcation between a minor and an adult.
20:4614 – The Messenger of Allah was twisting the forelock of a horse with his fingers and he was saying: A great benefit or reward for rearing them for Jihad and spoils of war, has been tied to the forelocks of horses until the Day of Judgment.
20:4617 – Allah's Messenger having said this: Good is tied to the forelock of the horses. He was asked: Messenger of Allah, why is it so? He (the Prophet said): For reward and booty until the Day of Judgment.
20:4626 – The Messenger of Allah said: Allah has undertaken to look after the affairs of one who goes out to fight in His way believing in Him and affirming the truth of His Apostles. He is committed to His care that He will either admit him to Paradise or bring him back to his home from where he set out with a reward or his share of the booty. By the Being in Whose Hand is the life of Muhammad Abu Huraira said: I would not lag behind any expedition which is going to fight in the cause of Allah. I love to fight in the way of Allah and be killed, to fight and again be killed and to fight again and be killed.
20:4629 – The Messenger of Allah said: One who is wounded in the way of Allah-and Allah knows better who is wounded in His way-will appear on the Day of Judgment with his wound bleeding. The colour (of its discharge) will be the colour of blood, but its smell will be the smell of musk.
20:4635 – The Messenger of Allah said: Nobody who enters Paradise will ever like to return to this world even if he were offered everything on the surface of the earth. Except the martyr who will desire to return to this world and be killed ten times for the sake of the great honour that has been bestowed upon him.
20:4636 – The Messenger of Allah was asked: What deed could be an equivalent of Jihad in the way of Allah? He answered: You do not have the strength to do that deed. One who goes out for Jihad is like a person who keeps fasts, stands in prayer constantly, obeying Allah's behests contained in the verses of the Qur'an, and does not exhibit any lassitude in fasting and prayer until the Mujihid {Soldier of Islam} returns from Jihad in the way of Allah.
20:4639 – The Messenger of Allah said: Leaving for Jihad in the way of Allah in the morning or in the evening will merit a reward better than the world and all that is in it.
20:4643 – The Messenger of Allah said: A journey undertaken in the morning or evening for Jihad in the way of Allah is better than anything on which the sun rises or sets.
20:4645 – The Messenger of Allah said: Abu Sa'id, whoever cheerfully accepts Allah as his Lord, Islam as his religion and Muhammad as his Apostle is necessarily entitled to enter Paradise. But there is another act which elevates the position of a man in paradise to a grade one hundred higher, and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. Abu Sa'id asked: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!
20:4646 – The Messenger of Allah delivered a sermon in which he told them that Jihad in the way of Allah and belief in Allah are the most meritorious of acts. A man stood up and said: Messenger of Allah, do you think that if I am killed in the way of Allah, my sins will be blotted out from me? The Messenger of Allah said: Yes, if you were patient and sincere and always fought facing the enemy and never turning your back upon him, all your lapses would be forgiven except debt. Gabriel has told me this.
20:4651 – The Prophet said: The souls, of the martyrs live in the bodies of green birds who have their nests in chandeliers hung from the throne of the Almighty. They eat the fruits of Paradise from wherever they like and then nestle in these chandeliers. Once their Lord cast a glance at them and said: Do ye want anything? They said: What more shall we desire? We eat the fruit of Paradise from wherever we like. Their Lord asked them the same question thrice. Then they said: O Lord, we wish that Thou return our souls to our bodies so that we may be slain in Thy way once again. When He (Allah) saw that they had no need, they were left to their joy in heaven.
20:4652 – The Prophet said: The best of men is he who fights in the way of Allah spending his wealth and staking his life.
20:4660 – The Messenger of Allah said: God laughs at the two men one of whom kills the other; both of them will enter Paradise. They (the Companions) said: How, Messenger of Allah? He said: One is slain in the way of Allah and enters Paradise. Then God forgives the other and guides him to Islam; then he fights in the way of Allah and dies a martyr.
20:4663 – A man brought a muzzled she-camel and said: It is offered in the way of Allah. The Messenger of Allah said: For this you will have seven hundred she-camels on the Day of Judgment all of which will be muzzled.
20:4668 – The Messenger of Allah said: Anybody who equips a warrior going to fight in the way of Allah is like one who actually fights. And anybody who looks after the family of a warrior in his absence in fact participated in the battle.
20:4676 - Abu Ishaq narrated about the Qur'anic verse: “Those who sit at home from among the believers and those who go out for Jihad in the way of Allah are not equal.” He said that the Messenger of Allah ordered Zaid to write the verse. He brought a shoulder-blade of a slaughtered camel and inscribed the verse thereon. The son of Umm Maktum complained of his blindness to the Holy Prophet. At this descended the revelation: “Those of the believers who sit at home without any trouble (illness, incapacity, disability)”.
20:4678 – On the day of the battle of Uhud a man said: Messenger of Allah, where shall I be if I am killed? He replied: In Paradise. The man threw away the dates he had in his hand and fought until he was killed.
20:4681 – While facing the enemy, the Messenger of Allah said: Surely, the gates of Paradise are under the shadows of the swords. A man got up and said; Abu Musa, did you hear what the Messenger of Allah say? He said: Yes. He returned to his friends and said: I greet you a farewell greeting. Then he broke the sheath of his sword, threw it away, advanced with his naked sword towards the enemy and fought them with it until he was slain.
20:4681 – A desert Arab came to the Holy Prophet and said: Messenger of Allah, one man fights for the spoils of war; another fights that he may be remembered, and another fights that he may see his high position achieved as a result of his valour in fighting. Which of these is fighting in the cause of God? The Messenger of Allah said: Who fights so that the word of Allah is exalted, is fighting in the way of Allah.
20:4690 – The Messenger of Allah said: A troop of soldiers who fight in the way of Allah and get their share of the booty receive in advance two-thirds of their reward in the Hereafter and only one-third will remain to their credit. And a troop of soldiers, large or small, who return empty-handed and are afflicted or wounded, will receive their full reward in the Hereafter.
20:4695 – The Messenger of Allah said: Who sought martyrdom with sincerity will be ranked by Allah among the martyrs even if he died on his bed.
20:4696 – The Messenger of Allah said: One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire or determination for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.
20:4711 – The Messenger of Allah said while delivering a sermon from the pulpit: Prepare to meet them with as much strength as you can afford. Beware, strength consists in archery. Beware, strength consists in archery. Beware, strength consists in archery.
20:4712 – The Messenger of Allah said: Lands shall be thrown open to you and Allah will suffice you against your enemies, but none of you should give up playing with his arrows.
20:4714 – The Prophet said: Who learnt archery and then gave it up is not from us or he has been guilty of disobedience to Allah's Apostle.
20:4716 – The Messenger of Allah said: A group of people from my Umma will always remain triumphant on the right path and continue to be triumphant against their opponents. He who deserts them shall not be able to do them any harm. They will remain in this position until Allah's command is executed on the day of judgement.
20:4717 – The Prophet said: This religion will continue to exist, and a group of people from the Muslims will continue to fight for its protection until the Hour is established.
20:4721 – The Messenger of Allah said: A group of people from my Umma will continue to fight in obedience to the Command of Allah, remaining dominant over their enemies. Those who will oppose them shall not do them any harm. They will remain in this condition until the Hour overtakes them. Then Allah will raise a wind which will be fragrant like musk and whose touch will be like the touch of silk; it will cause the death of all faithful persons, not leaving behind a single person with an iota of faith in his heart. Then only the worst of men will remain to be overwhelmed by the Hour.
20:4724 – The Messenger of Allah said: When you make a halt for the night, avoid pitching your tent on the road, for the tracks are the pathways of wild beasts or the abode of noxious little animals.
20:4727 – We accompanied the Messenger of Allah on an expedition. When we came (back) to Medina and were going to enter our houses, he said: Wait and enter your houses in the later part of the evening so that a woman with dishevelled hair may have used the comb, and a woman whose husband has been away from home may have removed the hair from her private parts.
SB 88:219 - When the Prophet heard the news that the people of Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.”