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| | Khilafah: The State of Being a Vicegerent, Caliph, or Depute |
 | | The word khilafah is a noun of state, or condition, deriving from the third person singular perfect indicative active - khalafa, 'he succeeded', 'was the successor of', 'replaced', 'substituted', 'deputed', 'came after' - of the root kh-l-f, and means 'the state of being a Depute', or 'the concept of having a Depute'. |
 | | The Depute is known as the khaleefah (the '-ah' ending is an intensifier or energiser for the expression): the plural of the word is khulafa. |
 | | Nevertheless, as a 'society for the promotion of khilafah consciousness' that group has done good work in reviving something that many had wished to consign to oblivion. |
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