The Islamic Caliphate is a ruling
system which is based on appointing a Muslim leader as a
successor after the departure of the former one over the whole
Islamic State to govern it according to the principles and the
teachings of the Islamic legislature.
It is called the "caliphate"
because the caliph will legally succeed the Prophet Muhammad to
the authority he was holding before in the leadership and the
administration of the Islamic State.
It is noteworthy to mention that
the post of caliphate is a significant post or position-extremely
serious and sensitive post because the caliph is he who in
establishing himself in the place of the Prophet and hold all the
duties of ruling and guiding the Islamic nation in matters of
running its public affairs.
This is not an easy task to tackle
with and it can't be manipulated by the general public in
addition to the fact that the Prophet has more right over the
people than themselves and more aware of what flows positively
into their interests and the interest of religion which makes it
binding upon him to relegate the covenant to the proper person
and he knows better than anyone else about that proper person who
can manage the State considering that Allah, the Almighty does
not interfere in appointing who will succeed the Prophet to this
post but if such divine interference has taken place, it will,
therefore, neither be the right of the people nor the prophet to
select and appoint the one whom they want to be the caliph.
Allah, since He appointed all the
prophets by himself and didn't make the caliphate a deliberation
among the people and nothing the like of this, He, appoints the
trustees of prophets by himself and their successors as well for
the preservation of His religion and Allah, the
Almighty.
Allah, the Almighty, has appointed
to His Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) twelve trustees and caliphs
who will undertake the task of the Prophet after him one after
one serially starting with the first one: Ali bin Abi Talib on
the historical Day of Al-Ghadeer who then will transfer the
responsibility to the one who comes next.
In this way, transference of the
caliphate will be implemented from Imam to Imam and these are, in
fact, the twelve Imams.
1. Ali
bin Abi Talib (P.B.A.H.).
2. Al-Hasan bin Ali (P.B.U.H.).
3. Al-Hussain bin Ali
(P.B.U.H.).
4. Ali
bin Al-Hussain (P.B.U.H.).
5. Muhammad bin Ali (P.B.U.H.).
6. Ja'far bin Muhammad
(P.B.U.H.).
7. Musa
bin Ja'far (P.B.U.H.).
8. Ali
bin Musa (P.B.U.H.).
9. Muhammad bin Ali (P.B.U.H.).
10. Ali
bin Muhammad (P.B.U.H.).
11. Al-Hasan bin Ali (P.B.U.H.).
12. Al-Mahdi bin Al-Hasan
(P.B.U.H.).
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