Commentary on the statement: Whoever obeys any legislator in any particular matter has committed shirk (associating partners with Allah)

The questioner : Yes, yes, may Allah bless you. We have explained in several places and in many commentaries the interpretation by Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) of this noble verse . In detail, whether the following was doctrinal or was for the sake of disobedience. But in some books, we find generalizations, such as when one of them, or some of them, says: Whoever obeys the legislator, even in a single particular matter, has committed shirk.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide the youth.

The questioner : Yes, so may Allah bless your guidance, may Allah reward you

The Shaykh : But now it is not possible; now the sorcerer is announced, but the evil of the next lesson, and this is a matter in which desire has entered greatly, to the extent that if some people see someone distinguishing in this station, they say, "This is a Murji'i," and if some people see someone declaring disbelief in a place of takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever), they say, "This is a Khariji." And we do not know how to ask these people. If we lean to the right, the people of the left rise up against us, and if we lean to the left, the people of the right rise up against us. Even though the path is clear, praise be to Allah, and the matter is clear, and the entire Islamic religion came to establish benefits and affirm them, and to eliminate harms and avoid them.