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  • خلافت

    Usama khan updated 3 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
  • Nadeem Minhas

    Member December 9, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    The only benefit I see is the unification of Islam and Islamic states as long as the Khalifa follows true Islam.

  • Faisal Haroon

    Moderator December 9, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    A governing body is a need of every human society. What kind of government a society decides to form is left up to the people of each society. The only guidance we find from God in that regard is that the decision should be made democratically on the principle of amra-hum shura baynahum.

    As long as we view this matter from the correct perspective, then a khilafa is not an innovation. People have the right to democratically decide to form a khilafa or any other form of government. However, when we insist upon the formation of a khilafa as an injunction in religion, or in many cases cross that boundary to present the formation of a khilafa as the main purpose of the religion, then of course knowingly or unknowingly we become guilty of introducing a new concept into religion.

  • Umer

    Moderator December 11, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    Please see for details:

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  • Usama khan

    Member December 23, 2020 at 5:03 am

    The word Khilafat doesn’t occur at the time of first four caliphs (Amer-ul-Momin) rather was a word invented by Ummayads to justify (with a religious flavour) their respective dynasty:

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