Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 132
132 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH In these verses the commandment is first given for obeying Allah and His Messenger. Then a promise is made to the Muslims that if they are perfect in their obedience, He will make them leaders. Like the earlier nations, He would establish for them a Khalifah on the earth. At that time, it would be their duty to establish Prayer and pay Zakat, and also to obey the Messenger of God. By establishing faith through the Khalifah, they would also be following the Messenger. This is the point also stressed in: 27 In other words, at such times the obedience to the Messenger would consist of following the Khalifah in propagating and strengthening Islam. Performance of Prayer, in its True Sense, is not Possible without Khilafat So in these verses Allah, the Almighty has first promised Khilafat to the Muslims. Then they are commanded to perform Prayer and pay Zakat. In this way, Allah, the Almighty has indicated that performance of Prayer in the true sense is not possible without Khilafat, as is the case of Zakat. There was a regular system of Zakat in the age of the Holy Prophet sa. When he died, Hadrat Abu Bakr ra took 27 Bukh a r i Kit a b-ul-Jih a d was-siyar, B a bo Yuk a talo min war a’ il Im a mi wa Yuttaka bih i , by Muhammad bin Ism a ’ i l Abu Abdullah Al-Bukh a r i Al-Ju‘f i , publisher, D a r ibni Kath i r Al-Yam a mah, Beirut.