The Khilafah is a common leadership for all the Muslims in the world. The Muslim lands, where the future Khilafah will be re-established over, covers a huge area from Spain in the west all the way to Indonesia in the East.

The Khilafah is a unitary state not a federal state. Governing any state, especially one as large as the future Khilafah, cannot be done by one person from a central point. Ruling in the Khilafah is centralised in the hands of the Khaleefah, who then devolves his powers to various assistants (Mu'awinoon) and governors (Wulah) in order to practically manage people's affairs.

Abdul-Kareem
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In most Muslim countries today the ruler and his extended family are some of the wealthiest individuals in the nation and in some instances even the world.

According to the official 2006 Forbes rich list of world leaders, the top three richest leaders are in Muslim countries.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was heralded as a landmark event in history as it proved the superiority of Capitalism over Communism and the emergence of a new world order. Although Communism won many to its ideology over a period of 70 years, it crumbled in the face of the arms race with the US and lost credibility amongst its adherents. Western intellectuals such as Francis Fukuyama labelled the collapse of communism as the end of the development of ideas, as Capitalism had triumphed against its only challenger.

As the anniversary of the destruction of the Khilafah (Caliphate) approaches, Muslims must never forget this dark day in history that led to the removal of Islam and sharia from authority and ruling.

Monday 3rd March 1924 was the official date of the Khilafah's abolishment according to the western Gregorian calendar.

The Khilafah and events surrounding it were international news at the time. Some of these news articles from 1924-1931 are reproduced below courtesy of the TIME Magazine news archive.

This photograph shows the inside of Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina where the Muslims gathered for every one of the Khulufaa' Rashida to give them Bay'ah (pledge of allegiance). Every Khaleefah from the first - Abu Bakr Siddiq (ra) to the last - Abdul-Mejid II was appointed to office through the Bay'ah, although in latter times the process was misapplied.

This article will refute the claim that Islam provides no detailed guidance on a governing system by illustrating the process for appointing the head of an Islamic State - Khaleefah. It will show that the Messenger of Allah (saw) far from neglecting this important aspect of the governing system, in fact detailed a precise methodology for appointing a successor (Khaleefah) for the Muslim Ummah.

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This map shows the Islamic Khilafah during the first century of its rule. Despite the number of countries under its domain with their existing languages, traditions, religions, customs, laws and cultures, Islam was successful in moulding these disparate people in to one unified society within a very short period of time.

Unlike the oppressive Byzantine Empire of the time, the Khilafah did not achieve this through tyranny and ruling with an iron fist. The peoples the Khilafah governed embraced Islam en masse and wholeheartedly supported and welcomed the rule of the Islamic State.

This book will refute in detail the claim made by Bush, Blair and others that the Khilafah ruling system is an oppressive, fascist, totalitarian state or par with Nazi Germany.

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