THE FIRST ADDRESS
Then Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, got up, praised and thanked Allah as He deserves, and then addressed the assembly thus: “O people, I have been given authority over you, yet I am not the best of you. If I do well, give me your support, and if I do wrong, set me right. Truth is loyalty, and lying is treachery. The weak amongst you shall be strong in my eyes, until I secure his rights, Insha-Allah (Allah willing); and the strong amongst you shall be weak in my eyes, until I wrest from him the rights of others, Insha-Allah. If a people give up Jihad in the Cause of Allah, Allah will smite them with humiliation. And if obscenity permeates among a people, Allah will inflict calamities upon them. Obey me as long as I obey Allah and His Messenger, and if I disobey Allah and His Messenger, you owe me no obedience. Arise for Salaah, Allah have mercy upon you!”
Such was the Magna Charta the first Caliph of Islam, granted his people on the first day of his assuming post, without request.
(Source: Biographies of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.)
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