Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 42
42 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH Similarly Hadrat Umar ra , Hadrat Usman ra , and Hadrat Ali ra guided people according to the prevailing circumstances. Indeed, there are some matters which are still under consideration. Issue of Consent upon Reaching Puberty For instance, when the Nik ah (announcement of marriage) of a daughter is agreed by her father before the daughter’s age of puberty, does she have the right to nullify it upon attaining puberty or not? This is a question which continuously arises. It is mentioned in the old books of Fiqah (Islamic jurisprudence) that if a father makes the Nik ah of his daughter, then she has no right to break it on attaining puberty, but I have concluded that a girl has that right, and if she does not like the match, she can refuse it. Similarly, there are so many issues of Fiqah which continuously arise, and a number of them will come up in the future. We are not concerned with details of whether Islam gave a specific form of government to the Prophet sa , because there are various forms of government. The form of the government of England is different from America, America’s from Russia, and Russia’s from Germany. However, due to these differences, we cannot say that one is a government and that the other is not. Government means that a specific organization should be chosen and established within national boundaries, and the reigns of the people should be entrusted in the hands of a