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Summary of Sunni concepts

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Who has the right to practice legitimate politics and their description

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Those who have the right to practice legitimate politics are the rulers

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Those whom the subjects are obligated to obey in what is good and not disobedient

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God Almighty said

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O you who have believed, obey God and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you

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If you dispute over anything, refer it to God and the Messenger if you believe in God and the Last Day

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That is a better and better interpretation

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And the Almighty said

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If a matter of security or fear comes to them, they announce it

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If they had referred it to the Messenger and to those in authority among them, those from whom they derived it would have known it

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What is meant by the rulers in the two verses is scholars and rulers

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And those on their behalf, including judges, regional governors, Shura councils, or Sharia bodies

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And everyone who has legitimate authority over people

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Accordingly, it is misleading to attribute the meaning of guardian to contemporary tyrants

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Those who rule without God’s law and who support the enemies of God

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Just as the legitimate rulers have the right for the subjects to obey them in what is right

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They have a duty to obey God and His Messenger in whatever they command

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And to rule people according to Islamic law

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Ibn Taymiyyah said

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The princes and scholars have positions in which they must be obeyed

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They, too, must obey God and the Messenger in whatever they command

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On each of the shepherds, the flock, the heads, and the subordinates

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That each of them obeys God and His Messenger in his situation

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He adheres to the law of God that He has prescribed for him