Once someone has been chosen he cannot be removed simply...

Once someone has been chosen he cannot be removed simply because there is someone better and more fitted available.' "He admits and vindicates this principle in order to justify rule by numerous unfit caliphs. It is possible too that he wished to refute Sh-1'i views on the subject. The theological and credal view he puts forth serves no other purpose for the Sunnis but to justify the political developments of the day.

The only aim was to justify whatever might be grouped under the heading of ijma' (consensus)." ( 2 ) ( 15 ) Such are the intellectual foundations of those who regard themselves as followers of the Sunnah of the Prophet and the guardians of religion and the shari'ah. They denounce as rejecters and traitors to the Sun nah of…