Khalifa ni mwakilishi wa Ummah katika kutekeleza mamlaka na katika kutekeleza Shari'ah.

The Khalifah is the representative of the Ummah in excercising of the authority and in implementing of the Shari’ah.

Khilafah ni uongozi wa jumla kwa Waislamu wote duniani, kwa lengo la kutekeleza hukumu za Shari'ah na kulingania Uislamu ulimwenguni. Wale wanaomteua mtu anayechukua uongozi huu, yaani wanaomteua Khalifah, ni Waislamu peke yao. Kwa kuwa mamlaka ni ya Ummah, na utekelezaji wa Shari'ah ni wajibu kwa Waislamu, na Khalifah ni kiongozi wao, basi hali halisi yake ni kwamba yeye ni mwakilishi wao katika mamlaka na katika utekelezaji wa Shari'ah. Kwa hiyo, hakuna Khalifah isipokuwa Ummah umempa kiapo cha utii; kiapo chao kwake ni dalili kwamba yeye ni mwakilishi wao. Wajibu wa kumtii ni dalili kwamba kiapo hiki, ambacho kinakamilisha mkataba wa Khilafah kwake, kinampa mamlaka, na hii ina maana kwamba yeye ni mwakilishi wao katika mamlaka. Na kwa msingi huu ndipo ibara hii imeandaliwa.

The Khilafah is the general leadership for all of the Muslims in the World, in order to establish the rules of the Shari’ah and to carry the Islamic call to the world. The ones whom appoint the one who undertakes this leadership, in other words, appoint the Khalifah, are the Muslims alone. Since the authority belongs to the Ummah, and the implementation of the Shari’ah is obligatory upon the Muslims, and the Khalifah is a leader for them, accordingly his reality is that he is their representative in the authority and the implementation of the Shari’ah. Therefore, there is no Khalifah unless the Ummah gives him the pledge of allegiance; their pledge to him is proof that he is their representative. The obligation of obedience to him is proof that this pledge, which concludes the contracting of the Khilafah to him, gives him the authority, and this means that he is their representative in the authority. And upon this basis this article has been drafted.