Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants to be a nice guy on AFP

Good job, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. You finally understand what the real issues are all about with the common people. I know all along that you are neither blind nor deaf. You would have been able to see and hear better if you did not spent too much time mingling with aristocrats and filthy rich businessmen.

Please remember that you are neither born nor destined to be a leader. You were elected to be a leader by the common people and you should never forget that. No matter how much pampering those aristocrats and filthy rich businessmen may give you, you can never deny the fact that it is the common people that gave you the springboard to join those at the top. :-)

Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Three are the persons with whom Allah would neither speak on the Day of Resurrection, nor would He look towards them, nor would purify them (from sins), and there would be a tormenting chastisement for them: a person who in the waterless desert has more water (than his need) and refuses to give it to the traveler, a person who sold a commodity to another person in the afternoon and took an oath of Allah that he had bought it at such and such price and he (the buyer) accepted it to be true though it was not, and a person who pledged allegiance to the Imam only for the sake of the world (material gains). And if the Imam bestowed on him (something) out of that (worldly riches) he stood by his allegiance; and if he did not give him, he did not fulfill the allegiance.

Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 157

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