Reflections on the Consideration of Political Legitimacy through the Verses of the Caliphate

The Claim of legitimization through the people's vote in appointing political rulers is one of the most popular political theories in the field of political thought and philosophy in the modern West. This theory has been endorsed and emphasized for the age of occultation by some contemporary thinkers of jurisprudence. Proponents of this theory have tried to provide some evidence of jurisprudential heritage - including rational or narrative- to prove it. One of the narrative documents presented by the proponents of this theory is the reliance on the verses of the Caliphate. In other words, the Man’s caliphate for God indicates that in cases where the divine appointment has not been made regarding the ruler of the Islamic society, it is the people, as the caliph of God on earth, who appoint one of themselves as the political ruler of the community.
The present study, with an Ijtihadi approach, has questioned the strength of the argument by means of the above verses. Accordingly, assessing the argument based on the verses of the Caliphate, it questions the implication of these verses as the legitimacy of the majority’s vote. And it emphasizes that although in the verses of the Caliphate, contrary to the prevailing view of the Sunni commentators, the reference of Caliphate is the Almighty God and the caliph is man himself; position can only be justified for the Prophets and messengers. Therefore, claiming the legitimacy of the people's vote on these verses will be an example of the negation of the argument in the absence of the subject.however it does not mean as the extent of the position of the caliphate, since this