Is Obedience ONLY to the Khalifah of Muslims? What If Multiple Rulers Exist?

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Is Obedience ONLY to the Khalifah of Muslims? What If Multiple Rulers Exist?
By. Dr Saleh as Saleh Rahimahullah, Student of Shaykh Uthaymeen Rahimahullah

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1- Sh. Al-Islam Ibn Taymeyah (rahimahullaah) said:
"The sunnah is that the Muslims have one Imaam and the rest are his deputies. Suppose, however, the Ummah abandoned this due to a sin from some part of it and incapacity from the rest or for a reason other than that and which led to having number of Imaams, then it is binding upon each Imaam to establish the Hudood (prescribed punishments) and fulfill the rights (of people)." [Majmoo' al-Fataawaa, 35/175-176].

2- Imaam Ash-Shawkaani (rahimahullaah) said:
"In Principle, all Muslims should have one Imaam. However, after the spread of Islam and the expansion of its territories and their remoteness, it is known that in each region there became a ruler or Imaam and so with the rest of the regions, none of them having authority to command and forbid in the other regions...
So the presence of various (multiple) Imaams and Rulers is of no harm, and it is binding to obey each one of them after giving him the bay'ah (pledge of allegiance) in the region in which his commands and prohibitions are executed therein. And similarly in the case of the one in charge of another region. And it is not obligatory upon the people of the other regions to obey him, nor to be
under his governorship due to the remoteness of the regions..." Then he said: "You should know this, since it is fitting to the Sharee'ah Foundations, and in full agreement to what is indicated by the evidences. And turn
down what is being said in opposition to this, since the difference between the condition of the early Islamic wilaayah (administrative governship) and its state
nowadays is clearer than the sun during the day." [Imaam Ash-Shawkaani in As-Sayelul Jarraar, 4/512].

3- Sh. Imaam Muhammad bin 'Abdil Wahaab (rahimahullaah) said: "The Imaams from each Madh-hab are unanimous that whoever overtakes a country or countries (seizes power) is entitled to assume the same rulership as the Imaam in ALL affairs. Were it not so, the affairs of this worldly life would not be upright. And for a long time, since before the time of Imaam Ahmad
(rahimahullaah) and until our time, people were not in agreement upon one Imaam, and they have no account of a scholar stating that the validity of (the applicability) of any of the rulings (of sharee'ah) is conditional upon the presence of the Greater Imaam." [In Ad-Durar As-Saniyyah, 7/239].

4- Al-'Allaamah (esteemed scholar) As-San'aani (rahimahullaah) said in his explanation of the hadeeth of Abu Hurairah (radiya Allaahu 'anhu), raised to the
Prophet :) salllaallaahu 'aleihi was-sallam):[1848 ]

"One who defected from obedience (to the Amir) and separated from the main body of the Muslims - if he died in that state - would die the death of one belonging to the days of Jahiliyya (i. e. would not die as a Muslim). [Saheeh Muslim,Book 20, # 4555, English Translation]
 

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