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Wanting what's best for the Muslims means to want for them what leads to success in their dunya and their akhira.

Wanting what is best for the leaders of the Muslims includes obeying their orders, and advising them with gentleness when necessary, and not waging war against them, and softening the hearts of the Muslims towards them, and praying behind them, and making dua for them.

Advising for the Messenger of Allah means to want what is best in accordance with the teachings of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. Loving the Messenger of Allah is through accepting that his path leads to Paradise, and treading that path.

Advising in accordance with the Book of Allah includes believing that it is from Allah, and that noone can come with what is similar to it, and reciting it with proper pronunciation and tajweed, and accepting the rules mentioned in it, and calling others to it.

Advice is to want what is best for the advised person. What does it mean to want what is best in relation to Allah? It is to have tawhid and leave out shirk, and attribute Him with attributes of perfection and leave out attributing Him with deficiency, and to love for His sake and to hate for His sake and to be thankful for His endowments .

Advice in Islam is to want what is truly best for the advised, including ourselves. How do we advise ourselves to be the best we can be, and how do we advise others to be the best they can be?