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The power to rule over the earth has been promised to the whole community of believers; it has not been stated that any particular person or class among them will be raised to that position. From this it follows that all believers are repositories of the Caliphate.

— Abul A'la Maududi Political Theory of Islam, 35. in Ibn, Warraq (2017)

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