سياسي خارجي ٢٩٣٤/٣٧ "الخلافة (الإسلامية)" [و‎‎١‎٩] (١٣٦/٣٧)

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Extract from a Note dated the 5th
April 1957 by the Assistant Direc
tor, Intelligence bureau.
"The idea of the revival of the Caliphate is absurd
and betrays a^gross ignorance of the Lohammadan juris_ruaence
on tile part of its sponsors•
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In Muhammadanism ’Khalifa 1 or Caliph is the title
given to the successor of Prophet Lonamed., who is vested with
absolute authority in all matters of State, ooth Civil and
Religious, as long as he rules in conformity with the law
of the ’Quran 1 and ’Hadis’. It is held to be an essential
principle in the establishment of the office that there shall
be only one ’Khalifa’ at one time, for the Prophet said:-
’Yihen two Khalifas have been set up, put the last to death
and preserve t.ue other, tor the last is a rebel’• Accordingly
to the Sunni law, it is absolutely necessary that the Khalifa
be *a man, an adult, a sane person, a free man, a learned
divine, a powerful ruler, a just person and one of the
piraish* (i.e., of the tribe to which the Prophet himself
belonged). The Sniaa hold that he should be one of the
descend nts of the Prophet’s own family. It is, however, x
agreed by all parties that ’Khilafat’ is elective and not
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hereditary* According to the ortnodox law oi Sunnis it is
incuabeft upon the ’united body of Muslims’ to appoint a
Khalifa for the protection of their religion, as without such
an officer it is impossible to maintain the orders of the
Muslim law, such as heritage, Jihad, punishment ana the
various ordinances of Islam*
The followin are some of the injunctions of the
Prophet regaixLn^ the ’Khalifa’
*Pxe who acknowledges an Imam (Khalifa) must obey him
as far as he can, and if a pretender cones, kill him*.
* Vhomever G-od appoints an Imam (Khalifa) and he does
not protect his ,.,eoMLe. shall never smell the smells of
paradise• 1