Al-Ummah ita ce take nada Khalifah. Sai dai, ba ta da hakkin cire shi bayan an kammala mubaya'a bisa hanyar Shari'a.

The Ummah is the one who appoints the Khalifah. However, it does not possess the right to remove him once the pledge of allegiance has been concluded according to the Shari’ah method.

Wannan makala tana da sassa biyu; na farko shi ne cewa Ummah ce take da hakkin nada Khalifah; na biyu kuma shi ne cewa Ummah ba ta da hakkin tsige shi.

This article has two halves; the first that the Ummah is the one who holds the right to appoint the Khalifah; the second being that the Ummah does not possess the right to remove him.

Rabin farko kuwa, hujjarsa ita ce hadisai game da bai'a, domin babu wanda yake da hakkin ya rike matsayin Khilafah sai ta hanyar bai'a, saboda bai'a ita ce hanyar nada Khalifa. Wannan ya tabbata ne daga bai'ar Musulmi ga Manzon Allah ﷺ, da kuma umarnin Manzon Allah ﷺ a gare mu game da bai'a, da kuma cewa Khulafa'u Rashidun ba su rike Khilafah ba sai ta hanyar bai'a.

As for the first half, the proof for it is the narrations regarding the pledge of allegiance, since no one possesses the right to undertake the position of the Khilafah except through the pledge, because the pledge is the method to appoint the Khalifah. This is established from the pledge of the Muslims to the Messenger (pbuh) and from the command of the Messenger (pbuh) for us regarding the pledge, and that the righteous Khulafaa’ only undertook the Khilafah through the pledge of allegiance.