The great strife

"I almost believe that the Islamic caliphate, as Abu Bakr and Omar understood it, was a bold experiment on the verge of being an adventure, but it did not reach its goal, and it was not possible for it to reach its goal, because it was conducted in an era other than the one in which it could have been conducted, in advance of it." This era is a great precedence. What do you think that humanity has...