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Hadith #4 – To Seek or Not to Seek Leadership

by Dr. Omar Suleiman

There is an important distinction between leadership as a goal and leadership as a means to another goal. The messengers were all given leadership as a means of influencing people towards righteousness. A just ruler enables society to be filled with righteousness and justice.

Sh. Omar Suleiman describes the circumstances in which to seek positions of leadership. 

March 2, 2017
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