Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 146
146 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH Why has the Resemblance been Ascribed to Khilafat of Prophethood and Not the Khilafat of Kingship? If anybody says that the Khilafat of kingship is also mentioned for earlier people, so why is the present discussion focusing only Khilafat of Prophethood and ignoring the Khilafat of kingship? This verse reveals that though there is a promise of kingdoms for the Muslims in other verses yet, here, only religious favours are being mentioned. To be specific, in this verse Allah, the Almighty mentions, “He will surely establish for them their religion which he has chosen for them. ” God establishes the religion of His Khulaf a ’ in the world. This is not the rule for the kings of the world and nor is their religion ever established by Allah, the Almighty. But this rule is only for spiritual Khulaf a ’. So this verse shows that here the resemblance of Khilafat is with the Khilafat of Prophethood and not Khilafat of kingship. Similarly it is mentioned, “He will surely give them in exchange security and peace after their fear”. This sign also cannot be assigned to the worldly kings in any way because if they are the masters of the