TheCaliphateTheHijazAndTheSaudiWahabiNationState by Unknown

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Internet Edition - http://imranhosein.org to leadership they had no part whatsoever in making. For it was quite clear that refusal to ratify an appointment was considered to be an act of defiance and constituted a visible threat to the de facto Caliph who was merely seeking to legitimize his rule. <22> The answer of the Second Committee to the question - How is the Caliphate constituted? - was deficient in another respect. The first and third methods (nomination and conquest), as we have demonstrated, were in conflict with the Qur'an and found no support from the example of the Prophet and the Khulafa al-Rashidoon. But even in respect of the second method mentioned, to wit - 'the choice of the people’, the Second Committee failed to demonstrate the machinery that could have been used in 1926 in order for this method to be applied. Finally we may again note that the deliberations of the Second Committee clearly revealed that the Azhar Ulama, who did not seem to have made a study of modern thought, were actually unaware of the real nature of the modem State system which was about to be imposed on the world of Islam and to virtually captivate and imprison Muslim political consciousness. The Third Committee The Third Committee was far more forthright and realistic in its deliberations and courageously concluded in its report to the effect that: 48

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