Iterative post (under live construction) (Last edited : 7th April 2025, 19:00 Pakistan time):
Note that this post is being prepared iteratively and is planned to be improved and changed further. For now, only the evidences are planned to be presented in this post due to shortage of allocatable time. So I am not attempting to translate the evidences again and just presenting the existing translations in most of the cases.
Quran, Hadith and Imposter Rulers
Imposters! because in Islam, ALLAH is The Only Ruler and any Muslim leader or group in a position of authority is a slave of ALLAH, to legislate and judge within the limits Set by ALLAH and with what ALLAH has Sent down, and is responsible to put efforts for defending the life, respect and property of every Muslim. If he doesn't, Muslim masses and specially those given fame and recognition, also fall under the danger zone, unless they put genuine efforts to replace such rulers. Many peaceful options also exist, e.g. mass public protests, civil disobedience, boycott, sit-ins etc.
The Quran
The kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs to ALLAH:
Quran 39:44
Quran 57:2
ALLAH Does not share His Legislation / Judging with any one:
Quran 18:26
Legislation / Judging is for ALLAH:
Quran 6:57
Quran 12:40
Quran 12:67
Quran 28:88
The need to Establish what ALLAH has Sent down:
Quran 5:66
Quran 5:68
Quran 62:5-7
Those who do not judge with what ALLAH has Sent down:
Quran 5:44-45
Quran 5:46-47
Disliking what ALLAH has Sent down or partially obeying those who do so:
Quran 47:8-9
Quran 47:25-26
Would you teach ALLAH with your deen (way of life)?:
Quran 49:16
Those who do not make unlawful what ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ have made unlawful and do not adopt as their deen (way of life) the deen of truth (i.e. Islamic way of life):
Quran 9:29
(Except verbal belief, today's Muslim rulers also violate the remaining indicated issues, and Muslim masses who are satisfied with such rulers and don't put any kind of efforts for replacing such rulers are also in the danger zone.)
Declaring what is lawful and what is unlawful on your own (you imposter rulers)?:
Quran 10:59
Quran 16:116
For you is whatever you decide / judge?:
Quran 68:35-41
The Book Sent down with Truth to judge between people by what ALLAH has shown:
Quran 4:105
The need to follow the Sharee'ah of ALLAH:
Quran 42:21
Quran 45:18
Is it other than ALLAH I should seek as judge / legislator, while it is He Who has Sent Down to you the Book [i.e., the Quran] Explained in detail?
Quran 6:114
The need to follow The Quran:
Quran 6:155
Quran 7:3
Quran 7:203
The need to use the Quran to judge between people:
Quran 3:23
The need to accept ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ to judge between people. Those who do not do so, do they think ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ will be unjust to them?:
Quran 24:47-52
(Why do the imposter rulers abandon the judgements and rulings of ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ and choose man made laws or their own fabricated laws?)
Don't go near and don't transgress the Limits Set by ALLAH:
Quran 2:187
Quran 2:229-230
Quran 58:4
Quran 65:1
Because they disobeyed and transgressed:
Quran 5:78
The need to command in connection with the مَعۡرُوف and prohibit from the مُنۡكَر :
Quran 3:104
Quran 3:110
Quran 31:17
Transgressors and those who did nothing to stop the transgressors shared the punishment and only those who prohibited the evil were saved:
Quran 7:163-166
(Compare this to imposter rulers, those who did nothing to prohibit or change the imposter rulers, and those who prohibited or tried to change the imposter rulers).
Religious figures (and celebrity scholars) should prohibit from sinful speech and devouring unlawful (including prohibiting rulers and generals):
Quran 5:63
They disobeyed and happened to transgress. They happened to not prohibit each other from مُنۡكَر
Quran 5:78-79
What ALLAH has made unlawful, and what He Orders and what He Prohibits:
Quran 7:33
Quran 16:90
The need to obey ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ :
Quran 8:1
Quran 8:20-23
Quran 24:54
Quran 47:33
Quran 64:12
No choice left for believers when ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ have decided a matter:
Quran 33:36
Who disobeys ALLAH and His messenger ﷺ :
Quran 72:23
Restore order between 2 groups of mortally fighting Muslims, if 1 group transgresses against the other, mortally fight the transgressing group till it returns to the ordinance of ALLAH ...:
Quran 49:9-10
Mortally fighting in the way of ALLAH and for the men, women and children deemed weak and facing wrongdoing / oppression:
Quran 4:74-77
(The Quran does not mention mortally fighting for opressed or wronged or deemed weak Muslims only, but for all oppressed or wronged or deemed weak men, women and children. If rulers and generals refuse to fight with full might, and refuse to build strength and even stop their countrymen from leaving their country for the oppressed people (though this disorganized option usually just adds these rescuers to the persecuted count), the only suitable option is the struggle to replace such rulers or make them fully comply to Islam, and then make them launch armies to rescue all persecuted people. Will you present this excuse on the Day of Judgement that rulers didn't do anything, so you also didn't even bother to replace such rulers or do anything?)
Only take ALLAH and His Messenger ﷺ and the Believers as allies and don't take Jews, Unbelievers, and Christians as allies:
Quran 4:144
Quran 5:51-52
Quran 5:55-57
Quran 5:80-81
Quran 58:14-17
Quran 60:1-2
Quran 60:8-9
Quran 60:13
Hadiths (Type 1: Compliant to The Quran)
لا طاعةَ لمخلوقٍ في معصيةِ الخالقِ
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الْمُؤْمِنُونَ كَرَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ
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مثل المؤمنين في توادهم
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الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي تَرَاحُمِهِمْ
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Hadiths (Type 2: Non-compliant to or going against The Quran)
وإنْ ضرَب ظَهْرَكَ وأخَذ مالَكَ فاسمَعْ وأطِعْ
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