Islamic Governance and the Legacy of Hereditary Caliphates

Islamic government, in people’s minds and memories, had remained as hereditary caliphates.

They imagined that Islamic government meant something like the caliphates of the Umayyads and Abbasids or the Ottoman Turkish caliphate.

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.

حکومت می‌کنه.

Then, when he dies, he appoints someone in his own place.

In the minds of the world, Islamic government was depicted in this form. It was the greatest insult to Islam and Islamic government.