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Despite the prophetic status of the leader and head of this authority, the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, the governmental power of the Messenger's era was temporary in nature. This indicates that authority was exercised in relation to and in response to reality, as well as for reasons that came from the circumstances and grounds for its extension. As such, political power was not a fixed and typical behavior, but rather a practice that evolved depending on the situation. This was seen in the way the country was conceptualized and its fundamental components, as well as in the way the relationship with non-Muslims grew, mainly polytheists and Jews. As a result, the political doctrine of prophecy is polite, grounded in reality, moral, and interestbased. This idea was incorporated and applied by the Rightly-Guided Caliphs who followed the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. This, however, did not last long for a number of reasons, some of which we covered in our book "The Emergence and Development of Islamic Political Thought." Above all, the Persian influence represented one of the main reasons, as we observed the gradual transformation of Islamic political thought into a field of texts, certainties, and constants, strongly pushing the Islamic political experience toward "the text." Early Islamic political books and practices did not make this obvious. As per your statement, do you have knowledge of the political concept's widespread popularity Unlike the texts that were subject to abrogation and whose rulings varied according to circumstances and conditions, the Islamic political idea is essentially moral, serving as the foundation for textual rulings. As such, the fundamental source for Islamic political thought, whether found in the Quran or the Sunnah, is a moral reference that is based on an integrated and entwined value system. For instance, if justice demanded, in the early days of Islam, that the spoils be divided equally between the conquerors and the mujahideen on the basis of merit, then at a later time, the same value required giving it up and substituting shares and wages, and so on. The reader is not misled to believe that this issue includes
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