It has become customary even in
the most minimal proposals and organizational projects in
addition to humanitarian themes for the proprietor of the project
to take as necessary the least probabilities and handle them with
care to keep his project ever permanent and active.
This state of being usually takes
place on the level of man-made regulations of the States in the
world via their constitutions. Let me adduce to you an example
the naming of the vicegerent
(if the system is royal) or vice
president (if the system is democratic) as a legal successor
replacing the original one in manipulating the State affairs and
administering its folders when temporarily taking office till
situations stabilize and that it has not forgotten or ignored any
of the countries with which it has relationships with on the
basis of its essential issues lest it will lose the entity of the
country on the one hand and running the affairs, interests and
rights of its citizens or the State's rights on its
people.
Sometimes we rather find that --
even on the level of companies, small communities and even on the
level managing domestic affairs shortly after the departure of
the father from the house.
Ad here, there may arise a big
question ever persistent on one's mind which is: " Did the noble
Prophet abandon – while leaving this world till he be beside his
Creator, the project of the Heavenly Mission which has been
entrusted to him without appointing him and naming and
introducing him to the nation as the legal authority to the
people in running the State and showing the tools of his
administration especially knowing it as a Divine Project –
eternal and universal?
The answer lies in making a
contrast between two states and showing the difference. It is
wise enough for the proprietor (the owner of the project) any
project to nominate the tools with which he goes along with his
project. What will come into your mind if this project is
heavenly and awesome proposal sent down to mankind from a Most
Omnipotent and Most Merciful. It is He who has chosen the best of
His Creation to run the affairs of His Mission to all of
mankind.
Consequently, the perfect and the
well-behaved way of preaching and delivering the Divine
Revelations necessitates on the noble Prophet to state to the
people what he predicts to happen in the future after passing
away from this temporal world given that the area between the
beginning of his burdensome departure from this world permits him
to declare the name of the one who is worthy of becoming his
legal successor and trustworthy guardian to the
nation.
This is on the one hand, besides,
such a great project like the Islamic Message makes the
declaration of that name a must and he felt' at the time being,
that it would be unwise to keep such a great mission undeclared
to the public in due time and all went well with the noble
Prophet (P.B.U.H.).
The noble Prophet since early
years of his call to Islam spared no effort in training the one
who could be well qualified to shoulder such a burdensome task
after him- The task of undertaking the responsibility of
administering the leadership of the Islamic State and maintaining
the spread of the divine Muhammadian message though it bears the
title of the Imamate which we will later on see that it is
another face of prophet-hood but with a difference between the
two.
On the other hand, the covenant
the Prophet was known for its exactness, earnestness and
organization of even the minor affairs is but another thing which
proves that major affairs bear the same persistence on keeping
the major points, too – something which demands to have an equal
environment in a way that admits not any insecure probability
take place.
Sun -
22 Jamadilawal 1446H -
