The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O `Abdur-Rahman bin Samura! Do not seek to be a ruler, because if you are givenauthority for it, then you will be held responsible for it, but if you are given it without asking for it,then you will be helped in it (by Allah): and whenever you take an oath to do something and later youfind that something else is better than the first, then do the better one and make expiation for youroath."