This document discusses the leadership skills of Prophet Muhammad. It defines leadership and outlines three levels - personal, people, and task leadership. For each level, it provides examples of how Prophet Muhammad demonstrated excellent leadership qualities like honesty, courage, inspiration, compassion, delegation and strategic thinking. For personal leadership, it discusses keeping one's word and time management. For people leadership, it discusses communicating, motivating, leading, emotional intelligence and work-life balance. For task leadership, it discusses problem solving, consultative decision making, allocating work, and delegating. The document argues that Prophet Muhammad was the best example of a leader.

2. Leadership skills of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)

3. Presentation Outline
 What is leadership ?
 Leadership in Islam
 Qualities of a good leader
 Leadership qualities Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
 Three levels of leadership
 Personal leadership
 People leadership
 Task leadership

4. Who is a Leader?
 “Leads”, shows the way
 Drive people forward, with a view to achieve a
common goal
 With a personality and set of leadership skills,
make others want to follow his/her direction

5. Qualities of a good leader
 Honesty
 Forward-looking
 Inspiring
 Compassionate
 Broad-minded
 Delegation
 Courageous
 Supportive
 Strategic
 Humility

6. Concept of Leadership in Islam
 It is Amanah, a trust from Almighty Allah
 Meet obligations towards Allah and discharge
his duties towards the people, the subjects
 Fulfills the responsibility
“ The noblest among you before Allah are those
of you, who best perform their duty.”
Quran (49:13)

7. Leadership Qualities of Prophet Muhammad
(S.A.W)
Possessed Excellent leadership qualities which
revolutionized lives of millions, and are still as
valuable.
“You have indeed, in the life of Rasool-Allah,
the 'Best Model' for him whose hope is in Allah
and the Day of the Hereafter, and who engages
himself much in the remembrance of Allah”.
Quran (33:21)

8. Self-Confidence &
Determination
 Iman: He believed that Islam would prevail
 Vision: A peaceful world where people worship
Allah Almighty
 A great leader is committed :Request of
Prophet’s uncle Abu Taleb to retreat from the
cause.

9. Farsightedness
 Possessed unparalleled foresight
 Al Hudaibiya Treaty: A glittering example for
leadership trait of Rasool, (S.A.W)- farsightedness
and wisdom
Quresh recognized Rasool(S.A.W) as a leader of
new state of Muslims
The treaty led to the fateh Makkah after 22 months.

10. Inspiring
It is through his high spirit, inspiring leadership,
that the Prophet successfully transformed his
people from the state of ignorance (jahiliyyah)
and idol-worshipping, to worshipping Allah, the
one and only Creator.
Continue to inspire the lives of Ummah after 1400
years

11. Truthfulness
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) always spoke the
truth in His entire life
Always taught others to base their personalities
around this act
Even His enemies used to testify that they had
never seen as truthful and honest person as Him
Al Sadiq and Al-Ameen

12. Epitome of ethics
 Personification of goodness and morality
 “And indeed, you are of a great moral character”
(Qur’an 68:4)
 Even when he was abused and made fun of by the non
believers. Instead of being offended, He used to pray for
their well being

13. Kind hearted and Generous
• The Prophet Muhammad taught love, kindness and
compassion to his people
• He advised to show kindness to women, sick, invalid, old
people and animals
• Fateh Makkah is a good example showing kindness and
generosity of Prophet
• Fateh Makkah is a good example showing kindness and
generosity of Prophet(SAW)

14. Strategic
 Leader, leading from the front and a strategic
commander
 Battle of Badr: crying and praying to Allah for help and
Allah sent thousands angels to fight against non-
believers
 Battle of Uhud: strategically placing horsemen on the
mountain
 Trench war: digging trench with the companions

15. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) as leader
We can see his model at three levels:
 Personal Leadership
 People leadership
 Task leadership

17. Personal Leadership
Keeping your word
 Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was known as Sadiq and Amin -
credibility and reputation management in today’s language.
 Bill George writer of both books of Authentic Leadership and
True North focus on this ideology.
 Promises are made to keep (Treaty of Al-Hudaybiyah).
 Breaking promises is worse than lies (Hudhaifa R.A).

18. Personal Leadership
Use of your time
 By being self-disciplined, he was the first to arrive when
hajre Aswad issue was to be resolved.
 A civil war was about to break out.
 This was how the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) prevented
a war from breaking out among the Quraysh by a
supreme demonstration of wisdom.

19. People Leadership
Communicating
 Non-hierarchical.
 Sit with them, eat with them.
 Visiting bedouins will ask: Who’s Muhammad (SAW)
among you?
 Sometimes light-hearted humour.

20. People Leadership
Motivating
 It was transformational, not transactional.
 People worked for free and gave their lives because they
believed in his mission.
 “The best among you is the one who doesn’t harm
others with his tongue and hands.”

21. People Leadership
Leading
 Was a leader without title: Hajre Aswad.
 Would accept dissent:
1. Hazrat Umar (RA) during Hudaibia.
2. A sahabia whom he encouraged to marry a sahabi.

22. Emotional quotient
 Persistence : Never lost hope, didn’t curse the people
who tortured him in Taaif.
 Didn’t keep grudges : The woman who threw trash.
 Forgiving : When the mission accomplished, he forgave
all conquest of Makkah.
 Gradual self –regulation : With divine guidance,
introduced values, rules in a gradual manner-one bit at a
time.
People Leadership

23. Work–family balance
 No job is worth taking if you have a failed marriage, or children are
ignored.
 Created a fine balance of work , family, personal prayer time.
 The Prophet once heard that one of his companions was fasting
everyday and spending all night in prayer. The Prophet made a
point to go visit him and advise him not to do this. Here’s what he
told him: “…I have been told that you stand all night (in prayer) and
fast all day.’ I said: ‘Yes (I do).’ He said: ‘Do not do that. Sleep and
stand (in prayer); fast and break your fast.
People Leadership
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24. Task Leadership
Problem solving
The captives of Badr were asked to educate
children of Madina in exchange of getting
freedom from captivity.
Everyone in Madina, wanted to be the host of
Prophet S.A.W, when he reached but in order to
resolve the issue, the Prophet(S.A.W) left his
decision to his camel(Qiswa).

25. Task Leadership
Consultative decision making.
The trench was dug on the advice of Hazrat
Salman Farsi similarly at Badar, the Prophet
pitched the tents of Muslims army at lower side
so Hazrat Saad bin Moaz chose a better place
which was already known to him.

26. Task Leadership
Consultative decision making.
The spouse of Prophet(Umme Salma) on the
occasion of Hudaibia, proposed the Prophet to
offer sacrifice, shave his head and free himself
of Ahram.

27. Task Leadership
Allocating Work
 He only had 23 years to develop a team which will
spread Islam in all parts of the world.
 Strengths-based assigning : he picked what the best in
people, created the best job-person fit. Selected Moaz
Bin Jabal as the Governor of Yaman.

28. Task Leadership
Delegating
 Hijrat : Ali (RA) to stay back, Abu Bakr (RA) to
accompany.
 Appoint for potential : Ali (RA) for khaibar expedition.

29. Task Leadership
Appraising
 After 10 years of serving him, Anas (RA) said : no
penalizing after a mistake was made.
 This reminds us of getting rid of today’s performance
appraisal system which only works to highlight gaps.