外交部负责哈里发国家与外国之间的一切事务，包括政治方面，以及经济、工业、农业和贸易方面，还有邮政、电报和无线电通讯等事宜。

The Department of Foreign Affairs is in charge of all the affairs connected to the relations of the Khilafah state with the foreign states, whether from the political angle, or economic, industrial, agricultural and trade aspects, or postal, cable and wireless connections and so on.

外交部负责处理哈里发国家与外国之间的一切外交事务,无论这些事务与关系为何。其中包括政治方面的事务,如缔结盟约、和平条约、停火协定、谈判、任命大使、派遣使节与代表、设立大使馆与领事馆;也包括经济、农业或贸易方面的关系,以及邮政通讯、有线和无线通讯等等。所有这些事务都由外交部负责管理,因为它们都关系到哈里发国家与其他国家之间的关系。

The Foreign Affairs Department undertakes the responsibility of all foreign affairs, pertaining to the relation of the Khilafah State with foreign states, whatever these affairs and relations may be, whether they are related to the political aspect and what it entails in the forming of pacts, peace treaties, ceasefires, negotiations, appointing ambassadors, sending Messengers and delegates, and establishing embassies and consulates, or relations that are related to matters that are economic, agricultural or are to do with trade, as well as postal communications or wire and wireless communications and so on. All of these matters are run by the Foreign Affairs Department, because they are concerned with the relations of the Khilafah State with other States.

使者(愿主赐其平安)曾与其他国家和实体建立对外关系,这一点已在关于行政助理的章节中有所说明。他(愿主赐其平安)派遣奥斯曼·本·阿凡(愿主喜悦之)与古莱什人谈判,正如他(愿主赐其平安)与古莱什代表谈判一样。他(愿主赐其平安)派遣使节前往各国君主处,也接见君主和埃米尔的使节,并缔结盟约与和约。同样,他(愿主赐其平安)的哈里发们也曾与其他国家和实体建立政治关系。他们会委派他人代表自己执行这些事务,其依据是:凡是一个人自己能够办理的事务,都可以委托他人代为办理。

The Messenger (pbuh) used to establish foreign relations with other states and entities, as was explained in the section regarding the executive assistant. He (pbuh) sent ‘Uthman b. ‘Affan (ra) to negotiate with Quraysh just as he (pbuh) negotiated with the delegates of Quraysh. He (pbuh) sent delegates to the kings and he (pbuh) received the delegates of kings and Amirs and concluded pacts and peace treaties. Similarly, his (pbuh) Khulafaa’ used to establish political relations with other states and entities. They would appoint people to carry these actions out on their behalf, on the basis that whatever action a person can perform by himself, he can delegate it to some other person to carry it out on his behalf.

鉴于国际生活的复杂性，以及国际政治关系的广泛性与多样性，我们主张哈里发应当在国家内部设立一个专门负责国际关系的机构，哈里发对该机构的工作如同对国家内的其他治理与行政机构一样进行监督，或直接监督，或通过行政助手进行监督，并依照相关的伊斯兰教法规定执行。

Due to the complications of international life, and the vastness and variety of international political relations, we adopt that the Khalifah should delegate an institution within the state specific to the international relations where the Khalifah follows its work as he does with any other ruling and administrative institutions in the state, whether directly or through the executive assistant, in accordance with the related Shari’ah rules.