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As for enters the doors of the Sultan of Tuttin, he is causing Fithna for himself.

Wamas dada abdum minasultani korban, the closer a person gets to the Sultan,

the father he gets from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

In Hadith in Imam Ahmad Musnad, our Prophet as I said,

Iyakum wa awawas salatine, I warn you from frequenting the palaces of the rulers.

There are a number of traditions in our Hadith literature that caution us especially the scholars

from associating with the ruling class. And because of this throughout our Islamic history,

checks and balances must exist. Throughout our Islamic history, who will put the rulers

under checks and balances? It has been the scholars. The one category of people throughout

Islamic history, who have had the courage and the audacity really to stand up to tyrannical

rulers and to put rulers in place has always been the righteous scholars. Sometimes those scholars

ended up in jail. Sometimes they were killed. Many times they were persecuted, sent into exile.

But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Sunnah is that the names of those scholars and the legacies of

those scholars and the respect of those scholars remains until the Day of Judgment.

Even if their bloods are shed in this world. But when you speak the truth, and that's why our

Prophet as I said, Aflarul Jihad is what? The highest level of Jihad is what? The highest level

it is to speak the truth in front of a tyrant. That level of fear because when you speak the truth

in front of a tyrant, generally this is your tyrant, your flesh and blood, your land, it is your

people. That's why you're there. And for you to speak in front of that tyrant, there is no

one to protect you after Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And our history is full of the legacies of

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