After reading some articles which
talk about the leader, I came out with an idea about leadership. President,
governor, chairman, chief, or any words related to leadership are different to
a leader. Those are only a person who gets paid in several field of work is
employed by people. They get money from the tax that people paid and get reward
or achievement. So what it is a leader?
Based on my understanding about
the leader, it is a person who can mobilize many people without getting paid.
He or she knows what the people feel and understands what people need. A leader
is a person who exactly knows what is happening on many people and this person
realizes the atmosphere nearby created by people’s emotion. In short words, it
is exactly the same like Masashi Kisimoto said in his comic Naruto i.e. A
hokage – the leader of ninja hidden village – is a person who has been
acknowledged by his friends and people.
So, if currently you do not
acknowledge your leader even he won the election, then he is not a leader. He
is only a person you pay for doing something.
However, there is a question
based on those understanding. If the leader must be acknowledged, it would be
so hard to find close to that aspect. Well, the main understanding is not about
the acknowledgement created by the friends or the people. But, what kind of
aspect or reasons that made many people admitted someone has a good capability
of leadership. So, it means a leader must have certain requirements in case he
or she is chosen as a leader.
Many people will consider those
requirements are having lots of experiences, or can manage many people. Or even
more, a leader must have a good communications skill so that he or she can
mobilize many people. Some people also might say that a leader is a person who
has good knowledge such as a professor. But, the truth is all of that is
incorrect in aspect of a leader.
Shiddiq. Honesty and Truth. In
Arabian language, shiddiq means truth. What he says and what he did is truth.
So, a leader never tells lies for many people. This characteristic will lead a
leader to act with full responsibility. Another characteristics of a leader is Amanah
which has strong ethical and moral principle which leads us to have a
responsibility. He can be trusted throughout any kind of thing. The next
characteristic is Fathanah. Smart and have widespread of knowledge. A leader
must study and learn from anything, anywhere, and anytime. It leads a leader to
have critical thought which help him to solve many issues. With many
experiences from studying and learning, he will able to decide which one is
better or not. A leader must be a wise person in deciding anything. And the
last one is tabligh which means giving the truth. It is similar to shiddiq but
tabligh is close to the actions. When a leader is given an information about
something important, he will inform many people without hesitation and nothing
to hide. He will tell the truth about the all information.
Overall, a leader is a person
that can be trusted by his people so that a leader must have honesty and wise.
He is also smart and have big responsibility so he could make decisions wisely.
Actually, those characteristics are obtained by the behavior of Mohammed SAW,
the last prophet of Islamic people.