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And the position of a Khalifa was never reinstated,

either in Turkey or anywhere else in the world.

The Khilafah had existed since the time of Abu Bakr al-Suddiq,

radiallahu ta'alaan, 632 CE, up until 1922.

Fairly consistently, there were some minor issues here and there,

but always the Khilafah was revived.

Sometimes in multiple locations,

we had sometimes more than one Khalifa at one time,

but we had the office of the Khilafah for around 1300 years.

For the last 99 years, there has been no actual Khalifa.

In today's brief lecture,

we want to do a summary of that particular incident,

some of its causes, and especially some of the impacts

that happened as a result of the loss of the Khilafah.

The Ottoman Empire reached its pinnacle, its zenith,

in the 16th century.

At the time, the Muslim Ummah was the superpower of the entire globe,

and why would it not be?

It had conquered the capital of Eastern Christian,

them Constantinople.

It had converted Constantinople.

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