Hadith 12-Welfare state

                                                                        HADITH 12    
TRANSLATION                                                                                         
The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and give him peace) sent Abu Musa and Muadh Bin Jabl to Yemen, and he sent each of them to govern a part. Then he said: ' Be gentle and do not be hard, and cause rejoicing and do not alienate.'                      

TEACHINGS
(a)       The Prophet (saw) gives us principles of good governance.  A ruler should be gentle and nice with the people and he should not be cruel. At the same time he should be firm in his governance and he must not compromise on principles. The A ruler should also adopt policies which should make the life of people simple and easy and avoid policies which create hatred among people. Since these were the instructions of the Prophet (saw) to the governors, it becomes obligatory for Muslim rulers to adopt the teachings and instructions given in this Hadith or they will be sinners.

(b)       Muslim rulers of early Islam particularly the four pious caliphs established examples of justice with the newly converted Muslims and also with the non-Muslims. Hazrat Umar did not pray in a church in Palestine so that Muslims should not make the Church a mosque. Following the Prophet (saw), Umar (ra) and Ali (ra) gave death punishment to Muslims who had killed non-Muslims. Umar (ra) suspended the punishment of theft that is cutting hands because the Empire was under famine and hunger. In some places Muslims returned ‘Jizya’ because they could not protect non-Muslims. There are hundreds of examples showing the gentleness of Muslim rulers.  

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