Al-Mundhiri on warning against support for evil rulers
“Encouragement to refrain from seeking an audience with oppressors,”
“Encouragement to refrain from seeking an audience with oppressors,”
“Warning against oppression, the supplication of the oppressed, and forsaking them,”
“Encouragement for words to say when fearing an oppressor”
“…obey Allah, obey the Messenger, and those in authority over you.”
“Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him uphold his family ties.”
“The best of you are those with the longest lives and best deeds.”
“Greed and faith can never be combined in the heart.”
“I do not ask you anything for it, except affection due to relatives.”
“The upper hand is better than the lower hand.”
“There is no obedience if it is disobedience to Allah,”
“The Mahdi will be from my offspring, the descendants of Fatimah.”
“There is weakness in its chain.”
“None of you has faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”