Islam & the Foundations of Political Power: A book that proves caliphate to be a big lie
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, authored by Sheikh Ali Abdel Razek and published in 1925, is one the most important books that reveal mischievous ways adopted by takfiris to control minds and recruit more followers. The book stresses that Islam is a spiritual religion that has nothing to do with politics.
The book tackles three basic pillars: the
caliphate and Islam, the government and Islam, and the caliphate in history.
The
fall of the caliphate
The
fall of the Ottoman caliphate was like an earthquake in the Muslim world. Al-Azhar
called for a conference to discuss the matter and stressed that the caliphate
is essential and named Egypt's King Fouad to become caliph of Muslims.
However,
Sheikh Ali Abdel Razek authored his book, proving that the caliphate has nothing to do with Islam.
Sheikh
Abdel Razek started his book with the definition of caliphate. He said the word
“caliphate” has the sense of deputizing for someone, succeeding him or
following in his wake.
Negligence
of politics
Sheikh
Abdel Razek delved into reasons why Muslim scholars were not so interested in
politics. "Why, then, did they retreat from these investigations? Why did
they neglect to study Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics, even as they
admired the latter to the point of calling him the “First Teacher”? Why were
the Muslim masses kept in total ignorance of the principles of politics and of
the different kinds of governments invented by the Greeks; while they were all
too willing to teach them the methods of the Assyrians in grammar and to train
them in the discipline of mathematics that the Indian author, Baidaba, mentions
in the Kalilah wa Dimnah," Sheikh Abdel Razek wrote.
He
ascribed negligence of politics to "coercion of the caliphate". "The
caliph had only arrows and swords for his defense," he wrote.
No
caliphate in Islam
There
is no evidence in the Holy Qur'an and Hadith of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) of the
caliphate, according to Sheikh Abdel Razek. Nothing proves the principle of the
caliphate or the great imamate, he stated.
He
stressed that the caliphate, allegiance and imamate were not laid out by the
Prophet like what Jesus said about Caesar when he stated: "Render unto
Caesar what is Caesar’s".
Sheikh
Abdel Razek emphasized that the caliphate 'has nothing to do with religion".
"The
caliphate is not among the tenets of the faith – no more so than the judiciary
or some other governmental function or state position. These exist by dint of nothing
else but political fiat, with which religion has nothing to do whatsoever,
which it wants neither to know nor to ignore; which it neither advocates nor repudiates,"
he wrote.
