Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 24
24 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH guidance in all these matters, but overlooks such an important issue and endangers the lives of billions of people, will definitely be negligent and defective. Detailed Instructions for Implementation of Law After this introduction, I now come to the actual issue. The Holy Prophet sa was raised in Arabia, and Arabia had no written constitution. For them, their tribal customs were law. Each tribe had a law of its own. They would decide their disputes according to their tribal customs, or, whenever they felt the need for an agreement, they would do so accordingly. When the Holy Prophet sa came, he presented the Divine sharia and told them that God had sent these teachings for them to practice. The Holy Prophet sa had them [Arabs] follow it. If the Holy Quran, a Divine scripture, had confined itself to the injunctions of S al a t , Fasting, and some other beliefs, and the Holy Prophet sa himself had prescribed political and national measures and had implemented them by force, one could have argued that: The Arabs destroyed their own government by brutally attacking the Muslims, thus leaving the country devoid of any organization and law; due to this difficulty and because of the dire need of the time, the Holy Prophet sa introduced and enforced some laws in order to save the country from chaos, but these steps were not a part of his religion.