{"id":6403,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/khelafat-after-the-prophet-sws\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:21:09","slug":"khelafat-after-the-prophet-sws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/khelafat-after-the-prophet-sws\/","title":{"rendered":"Khelafat After The Prophet (sws)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>It is obvious that the issue of Khelafat was always a difficult issue in the history of Islam and one that affects Islam a lot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Immediately after the passing away of the Holy Prophet there were  arguments and disagreements between some of the Sahabeh. The recording  of history is controversy but as a whole it appears that it wasn&#8217;t like  every one was happy (at first at the beginning) with the Khelafat of Abu  Bakr. Ansar wanted their own rep. Ali and Zubayr were not happy (as  recorded in Bukhari), etc.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The same problem was there between Moawiah and Hassan.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Same between Yazid and Hussain.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Same through out the history of Khelafat among Bani Omayyeh and Bani Abbas.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Khalafat became like king-prince system and was corrupted.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Finally Muslims lost their system of Khelafat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Question is:<\/div>\n<div>As  we can see most of the problems that Muslims face these days are  because of the lack of a system of Khelafat. As such it is difficult to  agree that khelafat is only a political matter and not a religious one.<\/div>\n<div>The Holy Prophet used to advise Muslims about what ever he thought they will need in future.<\/div>\n<div>How come the Prophet was absolutely silent about the issue of Khelafat?  <\/div>\n<div>If not clearly appointing a person, at least why he did not advised Muslims about the system of assigning a Khalifh?<\/div>\n<div>Some thing like:<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;After me, do such and such and consider such and such and use this or that procedure to appoint a Khalifah&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Being  the last Prophet whose nation supposed to be the strongest nation till  the end of the world, isn&#8217;t this (lack of direction about Khelfat)  weird?  <\/div>\n<div>Every  leader&#8217;s concern near his dead is about the leadership system in his  nation. We can see many examples in the history where successful leaders  always established a system of leadership before their passing away.  <\/div>\n<p>Why the Holy Prophet (SWS) was an exception?  <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The  Shari`ah does not give details about all the spheres of human activity.  Its main concern remains purification of human self. In matters other  than worship, the Shari`ah only gives guidance in those spheres where  the human mind was prone to making such errors of judgment which were  likely to have a negative impact on the cleansing of the human mind,  body or soul, whether at the individual or the collective level. The  guidance of the Shari`ah relating to the political life of the Muslim  community is no exception.<\/p>\n<div>The Holy Qur&#8217;an clearly guides that collective affairs of Muslims should be based on consultation. Al-Shooraa 42:38 reads:<\/div>\n<div>And their affairs are based on their consultation.<\/div>\n<div>The  verse provides us with necessary guidance in all the collective affairs  of Muslims. It requires us to decide all these affairs with mutual  consultation. This principle covers all political systems from choosing a  head of the state to running a municipality.<\/div>\n<div>Had  the Holy Prophet (sws) suggested a parallel course for the matter or  imposed a ruler of his own choice that would mean depriving people of  the very right, which the Almighty had granted them.<\/div>\n<div>Muslims  after the death of the Prophet [sws] did not ignore this principle. Abu  Bakr (ra) was elected Khalifah by the majority opinion of the chiefs of  Quraish a tribe, which undoubtedly enjoyed confidence of the entire  Arab tribes. Naturally there may have been some people who would have  expected to be elected but it was the majority who had to decide. We do  not find any proof of Abu Bakr&#8217;s (ra) disregarding the opinion of other  Muslims in all the important matters. All the other caliphs were elected  with the majority vote until the establishment of monarchy which is  totally in contrast with the Islamic teachings in this regard.<\/div>\n<div>The  effect of this freedom of choice given in the referred Qur&#8217;anic  directive is that the collectivity, on the basis of the opinion of the  majority, may alter its political system. We can devise system of  government today different from that of Khilafah.<\/div>\n<div>Therefore,  the Holy Prophet (sws) by leaving the matter upon the Companions only  fulfilled the divine will in this regard. It would be unjust to term it  indifference to a very important matter of the Ummah.<a href=\"http:\/\/understanding-islam.org\/related\/text.aspx?type=question&#038;qid=2284\">[1]<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-11<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6403\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is obvious that the issue of Khelafat was always a difficult issue in the history of Islam and one that affects Islam a lot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Immediately after the passing away of the Holy Prophet there were  arguments and disagreements between some of the Sahabeh. The recording  of history is controversy but as a whole it appears that it wasn&#8217;t like  every one was happy (at first at the beginning) with the Khelafat of Abu  Bakr. Ansar wanted their own rep. Ali and Zubayr were not happy (as  recorded in Bukhari), etc.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The same problem was there between Moawiah and Hassan.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Same between Yazid and Hussain.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Same through out the history of Khelafat among Bani Omayyeh and Bani Abbas.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Khalafat became like king-prince system and was corrupted.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Finally Muslims lost their system of Khelafat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Question is:<\/div>\n<div>As  we can see most of the problems that Muslims face these days are  because of the lack of a system of Khelafat. As such it is difficult to  agree that khelafat is only a political matter and not a religious one.<\/div>\n<div>The Holy Prophet used to advise Muslims about what ever he thought they will need in future.<\/div>\n<div>How come the Prophet was absolutely silent about the issue of Khelafat?  <\/div>\n<div>If not clearly appointing a person, at least why he did not advised Muslims about the system of assigning a Khalifh?<\/div>\n<div>Some thing like:<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;After me, do such and such and consider such and such and use this or that procedure to appoint a Khalifah&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Being  the last Prophet whose nation supposed to be the strongest nation till  the end of the world, isn&#8217;t this (lack of direction about Khelfat)  weird?  <\/div>\n<div>Every  leader&#8217;s concern near his dead is about the leadership system in his  nation. We can see many examples in the history where successful leaders  always established a system of leadership before their passing away.  <\/div>\n<p>Why the Holy Prophet (SWS) was an exception?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1313],"tags":[1761,2261,1319],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-issues","tag-caliphate","tag-khelafat","tag-khilafah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Khelafat After The Prophet (sws) - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/khelafat-after-the-prophet-sws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khelafat After The Prophet (sws) - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is obvious that the issue of Khelafat was always a difficult issue in the history of Islam and one that affects Islam a lot:\u00a0Immediately after the passing away of the Holy Prophet there were arguments and disagreements between some of the Sahabeh. The recording of history is controversy but as a whole it appears that it wasn&#039;t like every one was happy (at first at the beginning) with the Khelafat of Abu Bakr. Ansar wanted their own rep. Ali and Zubayr were not happy (as recorded in Bukhari), etc.\u00a0The same problem was there between Moawiah and Hassan.\u00a0Same between Yazid and Hussain.\u00a0Same through out the history of Khelafat among Bani Omayyeh and Bani Abbas.\u00a0Khalafat became like king-prince system and was corrupted.\u00a0Finally Muslims lost their system of Khelafat.Question is:As we can see most of the problems that Muslims face these days are because of the lack of a system of Khelafat. As such it is difficult to agree that khelafat is only a political matter and not a religious one.The Holy Prophet used to advise Muslims about what ever he thought they will need in future.How come the Prophet was absolutely silent about the issue of Khelafat? 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If not clearly appointing a person, at least why he did not advised Muslims about the system of assigning a Khalifh?Some thing like:\"After me, do such and such and consider such and such and use this or that procedure to appoint a Khalifah\"Being the last Prophet whose nation supposed to be the strongest nation till the end of the world, isn't this (lack of direction about Khelfat) weird? Every leader's concern near his dead is about the leadership system in his nation. We can see many examples in the history where successful leaders always established a system of leadership before their passing away. 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