With the Holy Quran - Surah Al-A'raf
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I believe that the appointment of the Caliph has reached certainty through connotative transmission (tawatur al-ma'nawi) as well, and here is the explanation:
With the Holy Quran - Surah Al-A'raf
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The servant continues to struggle with obedience and becomes accustomed to it, loves it, and prefers it, until God Almighty sends angels to him out of His mercy, urging him towards it and inciting him to it, and disturbing him from his bed and his session towards it. And he continues to be familiar with sins, love them, and prefer them until God sends the devils upon him, urging him towards them. The first strengthened the army of obedience with support, and they became his greatest helpers, and this strengthened the army of disobedience with support, and they were helpers against him.
Their consensus has been reached on the obligation to establish the caliphate, and no one deviated from that. This transmission about the occurrence of this consensus on this matter has been transmitted to us through a recurrent transmission, so it is definitive. We will give a few examples of what some scholars have decided: A- Ibn Khaldun said (in the Introduction): "Indeed, the appointment of the Imam is obligatory, and its obligation has been known in Sharia by the consensus of the Companions and the Followers; Because the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, upon his death, rushed to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, and hand over consideration of their affairs to him, and so in every era after that, and people were not left in chaos in any era, and that became a consensus indicating the obligation to appoint the Imam." That is, the nation transmitted this consensus and it was established among them generation after generation, and class after class, so the existence of the consensus is recurrent.
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On the authority of Abu al-Darda', who attributed the hadith to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: (Allah will not combine in a man's belly the dust [arising] in the path of Allah and the smoke of Hell. Whoever's feet get dusty in the path of Allah, Allah forbids the Fire from [consuming] the rest of his body. Whoever fasts a day in the path of Allah, Allah distances the Fire from him by a distance of a thousand years for the fast-paced rider. Whoever is wounded in the path of Allah, it is sealed for him with the seal of the martyrs; he will have a light on the Day of Resurrection, its color like the color of saffron and its scent like the scent of musk, by which the first and the last will recognize him, saying, "So-and-so has the stamp of the martyrs." Whoever fights in the path of Allah for the duration between milkings of a camel, Paradise becomes his due.)
With the Holy Quran - Surah Al-A'raf