Discussion on Islamic Governance and History

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.