Please explain the following Hadith: "There will come leaders who will not follow my guidance and not follow my Sunnah.

Answer

The Hadith means just what it states. It has literal application. If the people of Syria had heeded this command of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) they would not have been overwhelmed and utterly destroyed by the horrendous calamities which they have suffered for years since the inception of the so-called jihad initiated by atheists (the so-called Syrian Free Army), and perpetuated by the errant mujahideen who are all the fiddles of the U.S.

What type of jihad is it which has rendered homeless a million Muslims who had to flee from their homes under brutal and horrible conditions? Tens of thousands have been tortured, injured and killed. People are starving and devouring cats and dogs. Thousands of Muslim women have been pillaged and raped. And, worst of all thousands are fleeing to Europe and America selling their Imaan for gaining resident rights in the western countries.

If this is jihad, it is an American jihad. There is no goodness in this vile conflagration which undoubtedly is Allah's Punishment for a nation which has spurned Islam and turned its back on the Deen, and to this day they relentlessly continue along their satanic direction. All the miseries and calamities have not opened their eyes.

They are blaming others for the consequences of their own misdeeds. They are blaming the devil when they had voluntarily and lovingly embraced the devil and had appointed him as their leader, hence Allah Ta'ala has imposed the Devil on Muslims as their ruler.

The Hadith explicitly and simply prescribes the remedy and the solution for Muslims who are suffering the Athaab of Allah Azza Wa Jal. The solution which emanates from the Hadith is – Islaah (moral reformation), Inaabat ilallaah (to turn in repentence and obedience to Allah Ta'ala), Sabr and Dua. Only then will Allah Ta'ala change our condition and create the circumstances for our elevation and domination over the kuffaar. It is Allah's Sunnah to thrust honour and power on a morally reformed and spiritually elevated Muslim nation.

The Qur'aan Majeed makes it quite clear that Allah Ta'ala will change our condition only if we change what is within us. standpoint in their conversations with foreigners and that they must praise the observance of religious freedoms and the raising of the people's living standards under Communist rule. Their instructions are to encourage brother Muslims of the Middle East to join the "Peace Camp" and strive for the safeguarding of world peace (on Communist terms). All members of the group have to follow these orders. They rarely dare to express their own personal views since they are under the constant and strict surveillance of Party supervisors and also because their families are held hostages on the Mainland. While in Mecca, they are not permitted to indulge in individual activities or to separate from the group. In this way, a pilgrim group is transformed into an instrument of

propaganda for the Communist regime – as the Government of Saudi Arabia recognised in 1951 when it refused visas to a group of such 'Hajis'.

While these pilgrims extol abroad the religious freedoms enjoyed by their fellow Muslims in China, their brothers at home suffer persecution on the ground that they are "reactionaries", "counter -revolutionaries", "Nationalist" or "imperialist" agents, or again, 'local nationalists' opposed to the Communist leadership.

After the Bandung Conference, the Chinese Communists tried to hoodwink the Muslim world by sending hand-picked delegations to Muslim countries and by showing foreign Muslim visitors carefully selected religious "show-places" in China. (Source: Islam in China by M. Rafiq Khan)