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I want to be an Imam

I want to be an Imam

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Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I remind myself that this is also a, or even first I remind it to myself, which is first of all, anyone who wants to be an Imam, and by Imam I mean Imam for one salah, for tarawi, Imam of the masjid, somebody wants to become a khatib, wants to give khutbah, and so forth. So I'm including all of that in this word, Imam. So anyone who wants to be an Imam must beware of what Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wants. And said, if anyone wants to be an Imam, don't give him Imam. If someone wants to be an Imam, do not make him the Imam. Now this advice itself is so completely contrary to our current understanding of leadership. Because our current understanding of leadership is that a person should want to be a leader, a person should then start making efforts. First to become a leader, a person should, you know, canvas for votes, a person should make speeches, he must, he or she must become popular with people, and they must try and somehow force people nicely or otherwise to vote for them and so on. Now again, please understand this, I'm not talking here about developing leadership qualities. This is very important. This is absolutely critically important. Everyone must do that. Learn how to, you know, develop leadership qualities. But wanting to actually become a leader, that's a different thing altogether. You might say, if I develop leadership qualities, then you are saying, don't become a leader or don't want, don't have this desire to become a leader. Then what is the point of having leadership qualities? You know, you might have this question. My submission is that. Developing leadership qualities and wanting to lead people are, I won't say they are contradictory things, but they are definitely not the same thing. They are definitely not something which is, you know, necessarily a progression. Leadership qualities means the simplest and the most important leadership quality is to take responsibility for your own life. So who is a leader? A leader is not somebody who has 5,000 followers or 50,000 followers. A leader is not a head of state. A leader is not a CEO of a company. A leader, in all of these positions, for example, CEOs of companies, heads of state, you have people with very poor leadership qualities. They get there one way or the other. One of the most common and easiest ways in which people become CEOs of companies is because their father was the CEO of the company. Their father is the owner of the company. In family businesses or in businesses where there's a, you know, somebody has a major shareholding, they're usually sons, but sometimes daughters. They automatically become members of the board. They automatically become, you know, CEOs of the company. And with disastrous results, with absolutely disastrous results because they are lousy leaders. They do not have the leadership quality in them. They've never developed those qualities. They are highly entitled. They are people who you just expect people to obey them just because they have the same surname as the owner and so forth. So that position has nothing to do with leadership qualities. I have known ordinary workers who are the most tremendous leaders in terms of their leadership qualities that I've ever encountered in my life. My plantation career in Guyana in South America and in the mining industry, which I worked in. I've seen people, people who have, in many cases, they have literally zero formal education. I mean, forget about getting MBAs or whatnot. MBA is the biggest con job in the world. They have no formal education. I mean, some of them never even went to school. But amazing leadership qualities, meaning people who have confidence, people who take responsibility for themselves and for those around them, people who are willing to invest in themselves. Invest themselves into the lives of other people, help them,
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