{"book":"adl0973","page":253,"text":"were, and are, bound to hold\nconsultations and in future too\nit shall be incumbent on us\nto act accordingly. Prophet\nMohammad (may prayers and\npeace be on him) used to hold\nconsultations for the solutions\nof problems. The rightly-guided\nKhalifas (may God be pleased\nwith them) used to carry on their\naffairs by consultation. The\nKhalifas of the Bani Umayya\nDynasty also held consultations.\nBut it was the Khalifas of the\nHouse of Abbas who gave to\nsuch consultations a solid\nfoundation in the procedure of\ntheir affairs. The representa-\ntives of the people used to be\npresent at the Court of the day\nand held consultations with the\nrepresentatives of the Nation in\nall affairs relating to the State.\nSubsequent to the Abbassi\nKhalifas the rulers of Islam,\nconsidering consultations to be\nthe negation of their power and\n\n194\n\nواجب - لازم","chars":837,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00253.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/253","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/253","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}