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KHILAFAT-E-RASHIDAH
Salat is the Jum‘ah Prayer with a sermon, in which the national needs are put before the people. If there is no Khilafat then how can the Jama‘ats of small towns come to know the situation of what is going on, say, in China or Japan? What type of sacrifices Islam is demanding from them? When there is a centre and a Khalifah, liable to be obeyed by all Muslims, he gets reports of what is happening from all the parts of the globe. In this way, he is able to tell the people what type of sacrifice is required and which services are needed. This is why it is the belief of Hanafis that performance of Jum‘ah Prayer is not lawful when there is no Sultan amongst the Muslims. The philosophy behind this view is the same which I have mentioned before. The same is the case for the Prayer of Eids. It is proved from the sunnah of the Holy Prophetsa that he always delivered a sermon according to the needs of the nation. When there is no system of Khilafat then what knowledge of national needs can one have individually? How can he express them in his sermon? But it is quite possible that due to ignorance of facts he may himself remain in confusion which may then lead to confusion in others. Once I read that forty to fifty years ago a person went to Beekaneer for a tour. It was, by chance, Friday and he went to perform Prayer in a mosque. He noted that the Imam first recited the usual sermon in Persian and then asked the people present in mosque to pray by raising their hands that Allah, the Almighty