But as we have remarked Khomeini had laid this charge on them so cleverly and skillfully in that book that the name of none of them had come to be mentioned anywhere in it and we have also explained on what grounds of political expediency he had preferred that course. Till then we had only that book among his writings with us in which the nomination of Hazrat Ali to the office of the Imamate and the Caliphate by the Holy Prophet under the command of God had been mentioned in such a manner that no conclusion could be derived from it except that the first three Caliphs and all the Companions who had accepted them as the deputies and Caliphs of the sacred Prophet and the heads of the Islamic state and taken the pledge of loyalty at their hands were nothing but traitors to God and the Apostle and apostates and renegades. What we have seen in the preceding pages about the beliefs of Ruhullah Khomeini particularly his conviction and attitude concerning the first three Caliphs was based only on one of his books entitled Al-Hukumat-ul-Islamia.
