Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 115
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 115 Quran, and to convert the non-Muslims to Islam, and strive collectively for their common national interests. However, they presumed that there was no scope of the establishment of any religious organization. As a result, they continued to decline day by day. If, after their failure to establish an organization comprising religious and worldly affairs, they had established a purely religious organization, they would have saved themselves from a great misfortune. With such an arrangement, Islam could have been dominant in the whole world, and Christianity could have been totally wiped out. But they made the mistake that if they could not establish such an organization in the whole world based on religious and worldly sections, then there was no chance of establishing a purely religious organization. Therefore, when they lost one organization, they abandoned the other one. Second Mistake Their second mistake was to draw the inference that election was necessary only for the organization which covers the worldly and religious affairs of all the Muslims. The fact is that in these verses God Almighty has clearly mentioned that election is as necessary in a purely worldly organization as it is in the combined organization of religious and worldly affairs. If they were not able to do more, the Muslims could have set up an electoral system for choosing the king. It would have saved them from great