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The evidence that might support one point of view is tantamount to that which could support a contrary point of view. Therefore, on the one hand, it is not possible at all to be certain whether the Prophet had among his aims, early in his call (alda≤wah), the establishment of a state. There is no evidence in the ≈ad∞th, or in what is reported of the Companions, that may indicate such a desire. On the contrary, there is recurrent evidence that the Prophet rejected repeatedly the offer made by the Meccans, at the start of his mission, to make him their chieftain if he would abandon the call to his new religion.
Third, I will examine the way the problem has been addressed from the standpoint of the authoritative referent for the modern and contemporary Arab renaissance. Fourth, and finally, I will examine the relation between this problem and the current Arab reality and its future horizons. I do not intend to make an academic analysis of the problem of traditional authority, but rather define the problem in a manner that makes it easy to understand. I believe the most serious impediment to communication among the various currents of contemporary Arab thought is that each is isolated within its own authoritative point of reference, ignoring or repudiating any other authority, or categorizing the other as ‘ideological’ and thus nullifying rival opinion.
Therefore, on the one hand, it is not possible at all to be certain whether the Prophet had among his aims, early in his call (alda≤wah), the establishment of a state. There is no evidence in the ≈ad∞th, or in what is reported of the Companions, that may indicate such a desire. On the contrary, there is recurrent evidence that the Prophet rejected repeatedly the offer made by the Meccans, at the start of his mission, to make him their chieftain if he would abandon the call to his new religion. This shows definitively, at least in the beginning, that the aim of the Prophet was to promulgate the new religion, not to set up a state or gain a leadership.
