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Types of leadership
There are three
types of leadership in the dunya: innovative leadership, inspirational
leadership and intelligent leadership, and there is no other leadership, because
then it will not be leadership.
Intelligent
Leadership:
It is like an
intelligent man with an aware sensation, sufficient intellectual wealth and the
use of this wealth as a tool that makes it keep pace with the events and go
with the incidents at their level and it does not allow itself to come to them
late. This is evident on normal days, but if it is hit by calamities, it becomes
in need of making unusual efforts to keep hold of the issues, to carry on leading
the passengers, and maintain the level of leadership as it is, unscathed.
Inspirational
Leadership:
It is like a genius
who is the first in everything, refusing to be at the level of the people, rather
he is keen to remain their first and foremost. This inspiring leadership is in
an exceptional class, refusing to be other than first in everything: in
understanding, perception, perfection, seriousness, overcoming obstacles, carrying
out the duties and undertaking actions, and other than that of what is present
in its leadership. Then on top of that it has the ability to raise the fallen, to
motivate the inactive, bring close what is far for the short-sighted, to
clarify the vision for those whose eyes are blurred, to treat the sick and
weary, and remove the dead from among the living. Alongside that it fills
people's hearts with passion, their minds with vitality and thought, and their
souls with confidence and satisfaction. Whether in the severity of crises or in
normal circumstances, it carries on in its leadership without feeling the need
to make an extraordinary effort or that the load has become heavy, because adversities
are what energises the leadership and makes it feel the sweetness of its
burden.
Innovative
leadership:
It is like a unique
genius man in a class of his own. The
genius is not satisfied to be the best of people at the forefront, but rather
he brings new things that the people do not know, so he makes them go along
with it. He does not master what they are on to be the best of them, but he changes
what they are on and opens to them a new path or pushes them to go along it,
even if in that there is hardship, fatigue, struggle and sacrifice. Just like
this is the innovative leadership, which is not satisfied with the trends of
public opinion, nor with what individuals of the people are on, so it does not
think about taking leadership of them. It rises from the level of the people
and looks behind the wall to supervise the society and sees the condition of
the wall that they cannot see, and then works to change the condition of the people
and change the direction of the public opinion, and then after that trying to
take their leadership, even seeing their blood and money as cheap for the sake
of the idea that they hold, let alone the hard work and suffering. Thus they take
their leadership on the basis of struggle with lives and money with
satisfaction and contentment. This is the innovative leadership, it does not
lead people with their thoughts, but carries them to change their ideas, and it
does not go with them in the way that they go, but makes them take the hardest
route, and the most difficult path. On top of that, it makes the price of their
travelling on this way the hardship, suffering, and struggling with lives generously
with all of the money. Then it is not enough to walk in the crisis as it walks
in prosperity without a difference between them, rather it instigates the problems
and creates events and crises and ignite the fire in order to remain moving in
difficulties, because most of its life is striving for the jihad, because they
believe that the true life is only the life of Jihad.
24/07/1968 AD
Political
thought is the
highest type thought absolutely. It means the thinking that is related to
taking care of the affairs of the people. The highest of it is the thought that
is related to people and the world from a specific angle.
Politics requires
being concerned for the reality with care and precision. So it needs to stay
away from generalisation, and stay away from over simplification, and looking
at the specific situations in relation to the reality. So a certain
circumstance is not made analogy with another event, just because they are
similar, as two events can be similar while there are many differences in
reality.
Political thought,
must have a political leadership in order to exist, as its existence
in the books and the brains of scholars has no value and is not considered a
real presence.
Political
leadership: is the
one that is aware of the political thought and somewhat innovative. Being innovative
is one of its habitual attributes, and anyone who is characterized by this is
called a statesman.
The Innovative
Politician is the one that leads the state or society and is not driven by it.
The Political
leadership or the statesman: does not ignore the reality, but is not subjected
to it, rather he is trying to use it to walk with the society and the state towards
that which he has planned in his mind.
The Innovative
political leader: is he who imposes himself on his group and then on
society; he is not elected in an election, but the election process merely
makes apparent the one who imposes himself on others, and gives his leadership
legitimacy.
The political
leader in his dealings with those whom he lead must rely upon persuasion
not coercion, but is firm and extremely tough on what is right and true.
The Innovative
political leadership: is not an individual, but is many individuals, that
is, the political leadership is innovative leaders, not a leader. These
leaders and innovators radiate in them the values that they believe distinguishing
them with radiant heat and power.
The Innovative
leadership is only a leadership of the idea for the people or peoples to
be convinced of, because the reality of the innovative leadership is that it
leads the idea, so it leads the people to it, then they are led by it, so they take
leadership of them.
The Innovative
leadership: is not
controlled by time or place, but it chooses the time and place. However, but
the reality of the people obliges it with the type of activity, so it revolves
around this reality, and it cannot go past it.
It is imperative
for the innovative leadership to be a political leadership, and that actually
operates in politics.
Politics is
purely ideas that reflect the practical reality, and actions are
the reality that expresses the ideas.
Politics is not the
art of possibilities nor choosing the best of possibilities, but it is the
influencing of the possibilities to convert them to the situation that we want,
regardless of people's view of it, and regardless of it being easier or the
hardest most difficult.
The
Innovative Politician: Although he is of full certainty in his idea and method, he must constantly
gather the causes of success, by constantly thinking about and undertaking
actions and benefit from their experiences, and by attempting to do what he thinks
will be productive.
This is because the idea and the method are foundations
that need styles and means, and these require many repeated attempts and
numerous experiments, as inevitably there is the likelihood of error.
The
Innovative Politician with his seeing beyond the wall, does not turn a blind eye to the
wall itself, as although he leads the people to the situation that he wants
them to, but he must lead them by looking at the situation where they are in; Therefore
adopting the immediate partialities is a way to get to the change in society.
The
Innovative Politician must have the following:
To have a deep
understanding of the society, in terms of its thoughts and feelings, customs
and public opinion, ... and seeing what is between him and the people of
difference in what he sees and understands... and sensing all of that as though
sensing any material thing.
An assessment of
what is between the intellectual and political groups of differences, whether
between the individuals of a group, or
between a group and another group.
To be precise in his
expressions making them impossible to be mis-understood with what contradicts
them, and making them at the same time impressive and influencing.
To be personified
with associating with the masses, and longing to converse with the masses and
talking to them, and to live more in the collective atmosphere and among the
masses.
To persevere to contact
the Ummah with whatever he meets in that of difficulties, and that he repeats attempting
to contact them time and time again, and that is creative in the styles and
means which enable him to contact them until it becomes easy for him; because
the contact with the Ummah is the only way to success.
4 شعبان 1380هـ
21/1/1961م
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