Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 30
30 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH that keeping faith is very valuable and beneficial for you, and loosing it is perilous for you. He has entrenched this faith in your hearts in a beautiful form, and He has made disbelief, wickedness, sin, and disobedience hateful to you. Therefore, you should understand clearly that your Prophet sa has the authority to comply with or reject your counsel. Surely these are the people who are the guided ones. The Holy Prophet’s sa System of Government In this verse, Allah, the Almighty has mentioned how the Holy Prophet sa carried out the affairs of the government and has revealed that he did not accept every suggestion given by the people. It was necessary to point this out, lest someone should say that Hadrat Muhammad sa made all decisions, like a parliament, according to the wishes of the people. Similarly, some might have asserted that he only enforced the decisions of his people and did not establish his own rule. Therefore, Allah, the Almighty clarified this confusion in this verse, and has directly addressed the people, saying, that if His Messenger sa were to comply with their wishes, they would surely come to trouble. Therefore, it was not the tradition of the Prophet sa to make decisions according to a majority vote. Rather, when he considered the opinion of the majority beneficial, he gave his verdict in its