salaam alikom
Who said you can not critize the Muslim rulers, the prophet peace be up on him said
أفضل الجهاد كلمة حق عند سلطان جائر
The best kind of jihad is the word of right at the tyrannical ruler (the oppressive government) I am not saying fight them or start causing trouble but nothing wrong in saying whats bad in our Islamic countries.
The probelm is we as Muslim try to hide our mistakes and things happenes in Islamic countries, Islamic countries are not perfect just because they are Muslim.
Ofcourse we need to make duaa for Muslim Ummah to unite and may Allah guide us to this path and this include our rulers they are Muslim and Human. no one is perfect in this world But I disagree with you that you dont have to critize the Muslim ruler he is not a prophet that you can not critize him. If they do wrong things you need to advise them and if they dont listen you let the people know about what wrong they doing.. and Nothing wrong with that.
Brother mrmuslim do not use that hadeeth out of context the Prophet :saw2: عند which means to be with him and when you advice or critizes you need to be in from of the ruler not behind his back where he can not hear what you are saying, you need to be at the place where he runs the affairs, and we know critizing the ruler in public never brought about any benefit and the first of this umma to do so were the khawarij and it lead to the death of Uthman bin Affan (radiallahu anu), so you should read into the history of the Khawarij and see how distructive it is to critizes the muslim rulers. If the Prophet wanted people to critizes the ruler publicly he would have said An (about) I hope you know the word I am trying to you since I do not have an arabic keyboard and I am pretty sure you are much better then me in the arabic language. So I hope know that we have a better understanding of the word عند we can better understand the meaning of the hadeeth. And their are many hadeeths about the rulers and how you should act towards them.
The following hadeeth can be found in the book of 40 Hadeeth Regarding The Madhhab of The Salaf.
How The Subjects Are To advise The Muslim Ruler
On the authorit of Shuraih Bin Ubayd (radiyllahu anu) who said: Iyaad bin Ghanam said to Hisaam bin Hakeem: Did you not hear the statement of Allaah's Messenger
"Whover Wishes to advise the Ruler (sultaan), let him not do so openly. Rather he should take him by his hand and take him into seclusion [and advise him]. So indeed if he accepts that from him, then it is for him [in benefit] - and if [he does] not accept, then he has done that which was upon him [ by way of giving sincere advice]."
Narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Abee Aasim
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On the authority of Ubaadah bin As-Saamit, may Allah be pleased with him, who said:
The Prophet called us and we gave him the pledge of allegiance (the bay'ah). So amongst that which he said and made binding upon us was: that we pledged to hear and obey in times of invigoration and in times of weariness, and in times which we found hardship and in times of ease, even if someone wlse is given perference over us. And that we do revolt against the leaders unless you see from them open unbelief [which ejects one from Islaam] for which you have [for such a judgement] a clear evidence from Allah.
Narrated by Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim
Also on the authority of Ubaadh, may Allah be please with him, that the Prophet said:
Hear and obey [the Leader or Ruler] in that which is difficult for you and in that which is easy for you, in times of invigoration and in times of dislike and weariness and when others are given preferential treatment over you - even if they take and consume your wealth and they beat your back. Except that you do not obey them if it involves disobedience to Allaah.
Narrated by Ibn Hibbaan
Ibnul-Qayyim (died 752H) said: The Prophet
, legislated for this Ummah the obligation of rejectiong the evil so that by its rejection, the goodness that Allaah and His Messenger love is obtained. ANd when rejection the evil leads to what is more evil and more hated by Allaah and His Messeneger then it is not allowed to reject it - even if Allaah hates it and detests those who perform it. And this is like rejection (inkaar) of the kings, and the ones in authority by coming out against them [ with arms etc, to fight them], for verily, that is the basis and foundation of every evil and every tribulation till the end of time. And the Companions asked permission for Allaah's Messneger
, to kill the leaders who delay the prayer from its proper time, saying, "Shall we not kill them. So he
said: No, so long as they establish the prayer. And he also said: Whoever sees something from his Ruler (Ameer) that he dislikes then let him be patient and let him not raise his hand from the Ruler's obedience. And whoever reflects upon the greatest and smallest trials that have befallen Islaam, then he will see that they are due to the negligence and wastage of this principle and the lack of patience upon [witnessing] evil. So one seeks to bring about its end and as a resulte of this, a greater evil is brought about. And the Messenger
saw the greates of evil in Makkah and he was not able to change them. In fact even when Allaah opened up Makkah for the muslims and when it became a Land of Islaam (Daarul-Islaam) he was resolved to changin the Ka'bah and returnign it to the foundations that Ibraaheem, peace be upon him, had built it upon, but he even though he had the capacity to do that, he was perented from it by the fear that something greater would occur due to the lack of tolerance of the Quraish, since they were ne to Islaam and had recently left unbelief.
I am not saying that you will go out killing the muslim rulers.
The Forbiddance Of Abusing The Muslim Rulers
On the Authority of Ziyaad bin Kusayb al-Adawee, who said: I was with Abu Bakrah (radiyllahu anu) sitting under the pulpit of [the Ruler] Ibn Aamir as he was delivering the sermon and he was wearing a fine garment. So Abu Bilaal said: "Look at our ruler wearing the garments of the sinners!" So Abu Bakrah (Radiyllahu anu) said: Be silent!! I heard Allaah's Messenger
say:
"Whoever sends scorn upon the one whom Allaah has given rulership to up the earth, Allaah will scorn him."
Narrated by Ahmad and At-Tirmidhee, whos said: this Hadeeth is Hasan-ghareeb. And Al-Albaanee said it is Hasan.
Supplication For The Rulers Of The Muslims
On the authority of Tameem Ad-Daaree (radiyllahu anu) that the Prophet
said:
"The Religion is sincere advice." we said: "TO whom?" He said: "TO Allah, to His Book, to His Messenger, to the Rulers of the Muslims and to their general people."
Narrated by Muslim
I say: "Giving sincere advice is to wish for goodness for the one being advised. And from that which is necessary in advice to the ruler is supplication for him, for his rectificaton and rectification of his subjects."
Imaam Al-Bukhaaree cited and narrated the consensus (ijmaa) of the salaf in agreeing that it is legislated to make du'aa for the Rulers.
Imaam Al-Barbahaaree (died 329H) said: "When you see a man making supplication against the Ruler (sultaan) then know that he is a person of desire. And when you hear a man making a supplication for the Ruler, for his rectification, then know he is a person of the Sunnah,
I ask the sister who started this Forum to forgive me for going off topic but I felt there was a need to do so, and I did not put this replay for only the benefit of mrmuslim but for the benefit of all of us including myself.
I hope the rest of the replies will be back on topic. This was just a side benefit