Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 12
12 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH institutions of justice, and other requisites of government like budgeting, were not present at that time, which shows that whatever the Holy Prophet sa did was to meet the immediate needs of the time. A Dangerous Outcome of the Denial of Khilafat The fact is that with the denial of Khilafat, one would have to admit that the government of Hadrat Muhammad sa was not religious either. No matter how gently this idea is presented out of fear of opposition from Muslims, the fact is that it not only denies the religious status of the rule of the Khulaf a ’, but it also contends that the part of the life of the Holy Prophet sa which dealt with the management of the affairs of state was only worldly, undertaken to fulfil the needs of that time. It would be concluded that, with the exception of S al a t , Fasting, Hajj, and Zakat, organizational matters are left to the discretion of the people, and they are given full liberty by the Holy Prophet sa to follow the organization of their own choice. Ali bin Abdur Razzaq has discussed this subject also, and he says that: If the Holy Prophet sa had been running a government in the true sense of the word, he would have appointed judges everywhere and would have approved budgets on a regular basis. This is not found in his life. In this way, he tries to prove that the involvement of the