# Islamic Governance and the Legacy of Hereditary Caliphates

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2110480609680200048
- Source account: [@mustafa_aylar](https://x.com/mustafa_aylar)
- Source language: Persian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:05
- Published: 2026-10-15
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates) Islamic government, in people’s minds and memories, had remained as hereditary caliphates.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates?t=8) They imagined that Islamic government meant something like the caliphates of the Umayyads and Abbasids or the Ottoman Turkish caliphate.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates?t=21) One person, bearing the title of caliph, yet with the nature of a pharaoh, with the nature of tyrannical kings, acting as they did, in their outward and inner form, merely ruling over the people as the Prophet’s caliph.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates?t=42) (Not translated) حکومت می‌کنه.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates?t=45) Then, when he dies, he appoints someone in his own place.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3nDH7t9gA0LV/en/islamic-governance-and-the-legacy-of-hereditary-caliphates?t=52) In the minds of the world, Islamic government was depicted in this form. It was the greatest insult to Islam and Islamic government.