The Rightly Guided Caliphs – Documents and Views

This book reviews the history of the second Islamic state after the state of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in which the generation of Companions, committed to the Quran and Sunnah, ruled during three decades.

The leadership of this state was succeeded by Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, Othman Ibn Affan and Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with them all.

It ended with Al-Hassan Bin Ali relinquishing the Caliphate to Muawiyah Bin Abi Sufyan, thus achieving a precedent in the field of politics, as he preferred the unity of the nation over his right to rule and administration.

This review includes the Rashidi State presented in documents and cofirmed facts agreed upon by the most significant hitorians, with anlytical discussions and objective views derived from the events of history.

This book was written, knowing that this state was able to establish Islam as a religion, a state, politics and civilization, and that this state extended its noble human civilization gifts in vast countries and liberated many nations from the yoke of humiliation of enslavement, tyranny, ignorance, poverty and diseases, organized the relationship between the religion and the state and between leaders and subjects, and proved to history the greatness of Islam and its ability to establish the honorable human society, and that all attempts at apostasy, civil strife, ignorance, and old hatreds are matters incapable of bringing Islam down and depriving human society of a life of freedom, dignity, brotherhood and love.