Leadership

Only the ignorant, the avaricious and those totally unconcerned and forgetful of life's destiny and goal crave for positions of  leadership and government. A man who hankers after governmental and leadership posts is defective in intelligence since he has become enchained to the desires of his nafs. The responsibilities and dangers associated with government and leadership make these posts reprehensible and bitter to men of piety and intelligence.
A Sahaabi once saw Ameerul Mu'mineen Hadhrat Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) in a dream two years after his (Umar's) demise. He saw in his dream Hadhrat Umar wiping the perspiration from his brow and looking fatigued. Surprised, the Sahaabi enquired of his condition. In response Hadhrat Umar said that he had just now been released from his reckoning. This was two years after his death. Hadhrat Muslim Bin Qutaibah (rahmatullah alayh) said: "We have seen such men who regarded government to be the worst calamity." But now we observe such people who search for these posts. When any friend of these pious and noble men would acquire a post in the government, the pious ones would pray:
"O Allah! Efface us from their minds so that they do not recognize us nor we recognize them."