EDITED BY CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Azman Hussin A collaborative project of Dato’ Mustafa Kamal MISG USA & Canada Alumni Dr. Abdul Rahim Md Ghouse CO-EDITOR A humble effort to map the Dr. Rozhan Othman Dr. Abdul Rahman Abdullah various laws, principles and Ahmad Zuhdi roles of modern leadership PATRON Izzati Iznan theories with examples from the Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan Kamarudin Sohit history and biography of Prophet Md Taib Pardi Muhammad (SAW). DESIGNED BY Mohd Nazri Mohd Nor Zainuzzaman A Samad Wan Naim Wan Mansor a Zainal Adnan Table of Contents (of the actual book) Dedication i Foreword From Editor ii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Section 1: The Truth About Leadership 2 Section 2: Combining Modern Leadership Science and Leadership Examples From Muslim History 3 Chapter 2: Leadership Truth: You Make A Difference 9 Section 1: The Most Influential Person in the History of Mankind 10 Section 2: Summary of the Success and Impact of the Prophet’s (SAW) Mission 11 Section 3: Abu Bakr (RA) Showed Leadership On The Day Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Died 15 Section 4: 'Umar (RA) Introduced Many Innovations 18 Section 5: ‘Umar (RA) Confirms Four Great Companions As Equal To A Thousand 21 Section 6: Mus’ab ibn Umair Did All The Hard Work To Prepare For The Eventual a Migration Of Muslims To Madinah 23 Section 7: The Last Sermon from Prophet Muhammad (SAW) 26 Chapter 3: Leadership Truth: Credibility Is The Foundation Of Leadership 29 Section 1: Khadijah Entrusted Her Trade With Muhammad (SAW) When He Was Only 25 Years Old 30 Section 2: The Evil An-Nadr bin Al-Harith Confirms the Credibility of the Prophet (SAW) 31 Section 3: Even Abu Sufyan Affirmed The Truthfulness of Muhammad (SAW) When He Was Still Opposed To Islam 33 Section 4: Abu Bakar Confirms His Absolute Belief In The Prophet’s (SAW) Truthfulness During The Incident of Isra’ and Mi’raj 39 Section 5: Even His Enemies Witnessed On His Honesty And Integrity 41 Section 6: The Prophet (SAW) Never Abused His Authority 42 Chapter 4: Leadership Truth: Values Drive Commitment 44 Section 1: Never Compromise on Matters of Principle 45 Section 2: Even If They Put The Sun In My Right Hand And The Moon In My Left… 47 b Section 3: The Prophet Reprimands His Companions When They Overstep Fundamental Values 48 Section 4: The Same Justice Applies To Those Closest To Prophet Muhammad (SAW) 51 Section 5: Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Exemplifies The Value of Mercy Even After He Received The Worst Treatment at Taif 52 Section 6: Showing Mercy Even When The Enemy Was Adamant On Killing Him (SAW) During Uhud 56 Section 7: Islam Values Freedom 58 Section 8: It Is About Freedom Of Choosing One’s Religion 61 Section 9: Unflinching Faith And Commitment To His Mission 64 Section 10: When The Enemy Transgresses The Prophet (SAW) Never Hesitated To Use Force 66 Section 11: If It Be Sinful He Would Be As Far As He Could From It 68 Chapter 5: Leadership Truth: Focusing On The Future Sets Leaders Apart 70 Section 1: Painting a Vision of Future Greatness Despite Being In Difficulty 71 c Section 2: ‘Adi ibn Hatim Confirms The Prophet’s (SAW) Vision 73 Section 3: Caliph Ali Insisted that the Vision of the Prophet (SAW) Must Be True 75 Section 4: Vision on the Conquests of Yemen, Sham and Iraq 77 Section 5: Umm Haram Longing To Fulfill The Vision As A Naval Fighter 78 Section 6: Vision on the Conquest of Constantinople 80 Chapter 6: Leadership Truth: You Can’t Do It Alone 84 Section 1: The Early Followers 85 Section 2: The Prophet’s (SAW) Followers Were The best of Followers and Companions 87 Section 3: Ja’far Ibn Abi Talib Becomes The First Foreign Emissary For Islam Even As The Muslims Were Persecuted In Mecca 88 Section 4: The Companions’ Level of Good Deeds Are Phenomenal 91 Section 5: Tufail bin ‘Amr Embraced Islam and Led the Daus Tribe From Before Hijrah To the Fifth Year After Hijrah 92 Section 6: The Ansar From Medina Were Prepared To Fight and Die For Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and His Cause 94 d Section 7: The Unique Brotherhood In The History Of The World 98 Section 8: The Fighters of Badr Showed That They Were Special 100 Section 9: The Companions' Extraordinary Love for the Holy Prophet 106 Section 10: Examples of Courage By The Martyrs of Uhud 109 Section 11: The Women Followers Displayed Their Love For The Prophet (SAW) After The Calamities of Uhud 111 Section 12: Not Even A Thorn Can Hurt The Prophet (SAW) Except That I Prefer To Be In That Place 113 Section 13: A Lion Of A Follower Takes On The Enemy Single Handedly 116 Section 14: The Prophet (SAW) Also Had False Followers 118 Section 15: But The Prophet (SAW) Never Abused Any Of His Companions 123 Chapter 7: Leadership Truth: Trust Rules 125 Section 1: Al-Ameen (The Trustworthy) Has Come 126 Section 2: The Christian Rulers of Najran Insisted That Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Send To Them Someone Who Is Trustworthy 128 e Section 3: Honoring Treaties To The Letter 130 Chapter 8: Leadership Truth: Leadership Truth: Challenge Is The Crucible For Greatness 136 Section 1: The First Open Call for Islam Challenged The Very Root of The Meccan Society 137 Section 2: In the Battle of Uhud The Prophet (SAW) and Some Companions Showed Courage At The Critical Moment 139 Section 3: The Prophet (SAW) Even Accepted The Challenge To Wrestle As An Effort In Da’wah 147 Section 4: The Greatest Challenge Came Upon The Conquest of Mecca When Revenge Was Expected 148 Chapter 9: Leadership Truth: Either Lead By Example Or Don’t Lead At All 155 Section 1: Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Worked Hard Despite Hunger During The Battle of Al-Khandaq 156 Section 2: Leading By Example During The Difficult Period at Al-Hudaybiyah 160 Section 3: The Servant Leader 162 Chapter 10: Leadership Truth: The Best Leaders Are The Best Learners 164 f Section 1: The Prophet (SAW) Prepared His People Physically by Encouraging Good Competitive Behavior and He Involved with Them 165 Section 2: Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Explained How Fellow Prophets Also Sought For Knowledge 166 Section 3: Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Was Always Open To New Ideas 168 Chapter 11: Leadership Truth: Leadership Is An Affair Of The Heart 171 Section 1: The Prophet (SAW) Gave Everyone Some Material Gain From The Spoils of The Battle of Hunain But Reserved The Best for The Ansar 172 Section 2: Amr bin Taghlib Attests To How The Prophet (SAW) Won Over His Heart 178 Section 3: Many of the Prophet’s (SAW) Speeches and Sermons Led His Followers To Tears 179 Section 4: All True Believers Truly Love The Prophet (SAW) 180 Chapter 12: Prophet Muhammad (SAW): The Hallmark of Leadership 182 Section 1: Foundations of Leadership in Adversity 186 Section 2: Depersonalizing Leadership 194 g Section 3: Keeping the Big Picture in Perspective 198 Section 4: Leading From the Front 202 Section 5: Lead by Learning 205 Section 6: Leveraging the Uniqueness of People 209 Section 7: Conclusion 211 Chapter 13: Conclusion 212 Reference 215 Appendix 219 Section 1: Brief Explanation on The Sealed Nectar (Al-Raheeq Al-Makhtum) 220 Section 2: Natural Leaders From Among The Companions 221 Section 3: Imam Ibn Kathir on Khawarij 228 Best Selling Books by Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan 230 h Dedication Contributors Editor Co-Editor Kamarudin Sohit Izzati Iznan Dr. Azman Hussin Dr. Rozhan Othman Dato’ Mustafa Kamal Patron Mansor Naim Wan Wan Mohd Nazri Mohd Nor Designer Dr. Abdul Rahim Md Ghouse Zainal Adnan Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan Dr. Abdul Rahman Abdullah Zainuzzaman A Samad Pardi Md Taib i Foreword From Editor All great social movements leave behind a legacy. A contribution to knowledge based on the interests and experiences of the movement is indeed a very valuable legacy. MISG of US and Canada offered and continues to offer its activists something extremely valuable, the chance to practice leadership at various levels and in various capacities at a young age. Dr Azman Hussin The importance of leadership is currently stressed by one of our model. We intend to later on update and amend the model based dearest brothers and teachers (while he was in the US and until on better insights. this very day), Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan. He came to conduct a We also took a collaborative effort to develop the original drafts of leadership workshop in Malaysia in February 2014. Following up the book. We invited our fraternity of former and current MISG on his strong views about the importance of leadership, some of activists to contribute by providing one Hadith or one excerpt us thought about a project to develop a reference work on the from Seerah for the content, providing editing and layout inputs, leadership of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW). and other improvement ideas as the end product took shape. We The ultimate vision of the project is to write a reference book(s) on were inspired by the innovative approach of leadership from an Islamic perspective especially the leadership www.businessmodelyou.com. of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Other objectives include: We hope to set a small example of learning the state of the art 1. Creating and maintaining a repository portal of Hadith, ideas and techniques from the West and applying it for the excerpts from Seerah, excerpts from the history of the four great interests of Islam. We hope this humble effort will be a lasting Caliphs and other notable leaders throughout the history of Islam legacy and contribution to knowledge on the important subject of arranged based on some laws and principles of leadership based leadership.