COMMENT Leaders are not invincible and all-powerful, or anyone to be deified, as though they are immortals.

In fact, it is against the teachings of Islam to make leaders seem like they are without faults. If they are consistently doing a good job, they should deserve the praise from the people, but if they plunder the nation’s wealth without even blinking their eyes, do they not deserve all the brickbats, to say the least?

In a democratic nation, an elected leader will have to be accountable to the people, not the other way round.