“As you are, so you will have put in authority over you.” So when you have taqwa of Allah and fear His punishment, you will have put in authority over you those who fear Him with respect to [their treatment of] you, and vice-versa.
In one of the revealed books there is: “I am Allah the King of kings. The kings’ hearts and their forelocks are in My hand. If the slave-worshippers obey Me, I make them a mercy over them, but if they disobey Me, I put them over them as a punishment. Do not occupy yourselves with cursing kings, but turn in tawba to Me, and I will make them kindly towards you.”
Among the du‘as of the Mustafa, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, there is: “Do not put in authority over us because of our wrong actions those who will not have mercy on us.”
And at-Tabarani related from Ka‘b al-Ahbar that he heard a man supplicating against al-Hajjaj, and said to him: “Don’t do it. You have brought him from your own selves for it has been narrated: ‘Your actions (a‘mal) are your governors (‘ummal) and just as you are so you will have put in authority over you.’”
(al-Munawi, Fayd al-Qadeer)
At-Tabarani also narrates [the hadith in the same sense] from al-Hasan [al-Basri] that he heard a man supplicating against al-Hajjaj and said to him: “Don’t do it. You have brought him from your own selves. We fear that if al-Hajjaj were removed, monkeys and pigs would be given authority over you for it has been narrated: ‘Your actions (a‘mal) are your governors (‘ummal) and just as you are so you will have put in authority over you.’” (al-‘Ajaluni, Kashf al-Khafa)
Although the hadith is regarded as weak in some respects, it is in harmony with the ‘aqida and there is much evidence corroborating it in the Book and the Sunna, as al-Munawi and the other commentators show.
Clearly this applies as much in the west as in the east, for the same facts hold: Allah has power over everything and He is able to do anything.