And His saying: {And that you judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires}.

The Shaykh :Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family):

And judge, [O Muhammad], between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations

وَأَنِ احْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:49]

Judge between them in the case of dispute by what Allah has revealed, meaning by the Qur'an and the Sunnah, because Allah the Exalted said: Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is telling the Messenger not to follow their desires to confirm him and support him; otherwise, he would not follow their desires. Rather, Allah commanded him to say: So he will not follow their desires, but Allah forbids him from doing so to confirm him, not because he actually followed them. It is confirmation, not reproof. Pay attention, my brother: it is confirmation, not reproof, because he did not follow their desires. But Allah forbade him to do so to confirm him, until Allah said to him in what He said to him in Surat al-Isra: meaning, and if you followed what they say, then the answer is: Do you understand, my brother, why Allah would make him taste the double of life and the double of death? Because he is a Messenger, and his slip is not like the slip of others. From this, we know that the slip of a scholar is more severe than the slip of others, and that it is obligatory for the scholar to preserve the Sunnah in ways that are not obligatory for others, and to preserve the obligatory matters more than others, because the scholar is one who is followed. Especially if Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has granted him good intention and purpose, he will be an imam, whether people are pleased or displeased. If that is the case, it is obligatory for him to do what is not obligatory for others. Pay attention to this: if a man among the scholars led the people in prayer and began to recite from the short surahs of the final part of the Qur'an every day in the Fajr prayer, is he sinful? No, he is sinful. He is sinful. If he were praying alone, he would not be sinful; he would recite whatever was easy for him. But as an imam, he is sinful because the people will say that the Sunnah in the Fajr prayer is to recite from the short surahs of the final part of the Qur'an, so he would be sinful. Now, do you not hear the common people arguing based on the actions of the scholar? Yes. So the problem is that the religion changes because of this. If he drops something from the religion, even if it is only a recommended practice, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) would not follow their desires, but because of the severity and danger of the matter, Allah the Exalted forbids him to follow their desires. What is the purpose? To confirm him. That is, hold firm to this, hold firm to not following their desires.