Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 22
22 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH for the political affairs and organization of a country. It cannot be said that every nation and every country is at liberty to invent an organization of its own choice; rather, it has to follow Islamic rules in all spheres of life. If the Holy Prophet sa had adopted these of his own choice, we could have argued that people were free in this respect. However, when we admit that these rules and regulations have been described in the Holy Quran, and that the Holy Prophet sa narrated them under the command of God Almighty, then it shows that it was not the personal approach of the Holy Prophet sa. Considering that the Holy Quran has revealed all the basic precepts of governance, it would be unreasonable to assume that it does not clarify how government should implement them. It would be like a person who collects timber, windows, doors, paint, etc. to build a house, but when asked about the expected time of construction and proposed drawing of the house, he shows complete ignorance. Clearly, when he arranged for the bricks, had the doors, windows, and ventilators made, and acquired the lime and clay, his purpose was to build a house and not to let all these things go waste. Similarly, when the Holy Quran has mentioned all these things related to government, then the human mind cannot accept that it has not given commands on how to run government and the type of organization the Islamic government should have. If it does not make this clear, then one