KHILAFAH
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CONDITIONS FOR A SUITABLE IMAM
Taken from Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah, by Abu'l Hasan Al-Mawardi
1. Justice with all of its conditions.
2. Knowledge which enables him to conduct Ijtihaad in unforeseen matters.
3. Sound senses in terms of hearing, sight, and speech.
4. Limbs free from deficiency, so as not to prevent movement.
5. An opinion capable of organising the people, and managing the offices
of administration.
6. Courage and bravery capable of protecting the territory, and waging
Jihad against th enemy.
7. Lineage should be from Quraysh, due to the textual evidence
and by virtue of Ijma'
(consensus of scholars).
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