Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 125
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 125 “We took the Bai‘at of the Holy Prophet sa on the conditions that we will always obey the rulers whether it is convenient for us or hard and whether our heart intends to obey their commands or not, whether they give our rights to someone else, even then we’ll obey them. Similarly, there was another condition of our Bai‘at that we shall not dispute with a person to whom we entrust the government considering him fit for it. We shall not indulge in debate with him why he issued one command instead of the other one. It is possible that those authorities sometime may give a command against the religion. In that case, we had the instruction to inform them of the reality truthfully, and should not be afraid of any censure for the sake of the religion of God. ” In another tradition it is mentioned, “We had the instruction from the Holy Prophet sa not to involve in any sort of dispute with those whom we have entrusted the job after considering them entitled for the government. But when you see an open infidelity and treachery from them, while the clear commands are in favour of your standpoint, then it is your duty to decline to obey them in that religious matter, and do what you are commanded by God. Similarly, it is mentioned in another Hadith: Hadrat ‘Auf bin Malik al-Ashjaey ra narrates that the Holy Prophet sa said: