Allah, the Almighty says,
“The blame is only against those who Oppress men with wrong-doing and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land defying right and justice: for such there will be a chastisement grievous.”
(Al-Shura: 42)
The Qur’an also states,
“Think not that Allah doth heed the deeds of those who do wrong. He but giveth them respect against a Day when the eyes will fixedly stare in horror, they running forward with necks outstretched, their heads uplifted; their gaze returning not towards them, and their hearts a (gaping) void!”
(Ibrahim: 42-43)
And,
“Nor did they forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did”
(Al-Ma’idah: 79)
Now let us consider the following Ahadith:
“He who deceives us is not of us.”
[Muslim]
“Oppression will be darkness on the Day of Judgment.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“All of you are trustees and each is responsible for those entrusted to his care.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“Any superior who misrules his followers shall go to Hell.”
[Bukhari]
“If a person who is appointed in authority over people, does not look after the people (placed under his care) with goodwill and sincerity, he will not get even the aroma of paradise.”
“Every governor will be seized on the day of Judgement in front of the Hell-Fire. From the back of his head he will be held by an angel. The angel, then, raises his head before Allah (a warning for His command). Being commanded to throw him, only after forty will the governor reach the bottom of a vacuum.”
[Ahmad]
“Woe to princes, woe to captains, woe to officers. On the Day of Judgement some people will wish to have their forelock clung to a Pleiades in torture and that they did not take the charge before.”
[Ahmad]
“On the Day of Judgement, the just judge is brought (to be reckoned), He will suffer to such an extent that he will hope that he would not have judged between any two people even with regards to a date ”
[Ahmad]
Of the Prophet’s (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) supplication is that,
“O Allah! When a person who is placed in authority over my Ummah (people) is strict with them, be Thou also strict with him, and when such a person is kind on them, be Thou also kind on him.”
[Muslim]
“O Allah! Whoever disposes something of Muslims affairs and screens himself (by adopting a porter) away from their need and poverty, Allah will screen Himself away of his need and poverty.”
[Abu Dawud]
“There will come corrupt, tyrannical rulers: whoever confirms their lies and assists them in their oppression is not of me, nor I of him, and shall not meet me at my watering place in Paradise.”
[Ahmad]
“Two classes of my Ummah (nation) are excluded from my intercession: a tyrant ruler and the one who is extreme in religion: who bears witness against them and clears himself from them.”
[Abi’ Asim in Al-Awsat]
“The Oppressor ruler will suffer the severest torture on the Day of Judgement.”
[At- Tabarani]
“O people command the right and forbid the wrong before a day in which your supplications to Allah and seeking forgiveness from Him will be unanswered. When the Jewish doctors of law and the Christian monks gave up commanding the right and forbidding the wrong, Allah cursed them by the tongue of their prophets and then puts them on the verge of a sweeping punishment.”
[Ahmad, Al-Baihaqi and Al-Bazzar]
“Whoever tries to introduce into this faith of ours (Islam) something which is not a part of it, is to be rejected (and that person is condemned).”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“Whoever tries to introduce some thing or adopts an innovation (in religion) he entails the curse of Allah, the angels and the whole people and will have his works not accepted.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“He who shows no mercy will not be shown any.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“Allah shows no mercy to whoever shows none to people.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“Under Allah’s shade is a just ruler when there will be no shade except Allah’s.”
[Bukhari and Muslim]
“The just and fair people (rulers and judges) will be seated on chairs of light before Allah. Such people are those who deal justly in the matters relating to their families and other affairs entrusted to them.”
[Muslim]
When the Messenger of Allah (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) sent Mu’adh (RadhiAllahu Anhu) to Yemen he said to him,
“Do not take the best of their articles as Zakat. Fear the call of an oppressed person, because there is no barrier between the complaint of an oppressed and Allah.”
[Bukhari]
The Prophet, SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam, also said,
“These are three people whom Allah will not talk to, look at, or exonerate on the Day of Judgement. He mentioned among them the lying ruler.”
[Muslim]
“You will be anxious to lead, and this will be a source of remorse to you on the day of Judgement.”
[Bukhari]
“By Allah, I will not appoint to a public office anybody who asks for it or expresses a longing for it.”
[Bukhari]
“O Ka’b Ibn ‘Ajarah, may Allah give refuge to you from the leadership of the naives who will come after me but they will not follow my guidance or tradition.”
[Ahmad]
“He who asks to be appointed as the judge of Muslims, and then he judges justly, he will enter Paradise, but if he judges unjustly he will go to Hell.”
[Abu Dawud]
‘Amr Ibn Al-Muhajir said, ‘Umar Ibn Abdel Aziz said to me “When you see me deviating from the right, you should grip me and ask, ‘O ‘Umar what are you doing?’