Caliphate

The civilization of Islam emerged shining from the horizon of the guidance of the Qur''an, built on the basis of beginning with the reform of man. To be the reformer of the affairs of the universe and the affairs of society, the greatest reform of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs was to establish truth and justice, equality between people in fairness, spread virtues, suppress vices, and abolish what exhausted humans, such as the tyranny of kings and princes, and the control of priests and heads of religion over minds and souls. Thus, they reached an extent of Perfection was unparalleled in the history of nations and generations, and this entailed a fast-moving civilization, combining religion and virtue, in which sciences and arts advanced with strange speed.