The Prophet's Establishing a State and His Succession

This book is a study of how the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) founded a state, how he governed it and how its continuity, through succession, was assured. CONTENTS Foreword (iii) Preface (v) I. The Quranic Conception of the State. 1 II. Conception of State in Islam. 17 III. The First Written Constitution in the World. 42 IV. Translation of the Text of the Constitution. 65 V. The Prophet as a Statesman and His Treatment of Non-Muslim Subjects, and Its Fruits. 75 VI. Budgeting and Taxation in the Time of theProphet 79 VII Financial Administration in the Muslim State 93 VIII Constitutional Problems m Early Islam 104 IX l400th Anniversary of the War of Banu an Nadir. 134 X. The Teleguided Battles of Jamal and Siffin. 137 XI.The Episode of the Project of a Written-Testament by the Prophet on His Death-Bed. 155 It was by virtue of being the messenger of Allah, that the Prophet Muhammad commanded his community; and the law which he promulgated and left to posterity was equally of Divine inspiration. For his successors, the sovereignty of Allah continued to exist as a reality, in the sphere of their competence; therein they were the successors of the Prophet of God. The tradition created by the Prophet himself is responsible for the fact that the head of the Muslim State should not be above the law. History shows that the caliphs could always be cited, even by humblest of the subjects, also by non-Muslims, to appear before the courts of the country, from the time of Abu-Bakr (the first caliph) this rule will apply to the true Islamic state