Ibn Taymiyyah said: Allah establishes a just state, even if it is a state of disbelief, and He does not establish an oppressive state, even if it is a Muslim state.

The Shaykh : He says: Ibn Taymiyyah said that Allah establishes a just state, even if it is a state of disbelief, and He does not establish an oppressive state, even if it is a Muslim state. We ask for an explanation of this statement, along with the presentation of the scriptural evidence for it, and your opinion on it?
I do not have this statement by Ibn Taymiyyah at hand, but the noble verse that says some scholars of Qur'anic exegesis mentioned this meaning that the questioner is quoting from Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him). This is because oppression is the cause of the ruin and destruction of the people. If a nation or state is in a state of disbelief but rules with justice among its people—this justice that people know by their innate natural disposition—then if they rule by it, their state will stand and last for a long time, and history is full of this. On the contrary, if the rulers rebel and oppress the people, that becomes a cause for the rise of revolutions and what is called today military coups, and the situation in those lands will not stabilize until the people destroy one another, and that becomes a cause for opening the way for another nation to enslave them. There is no doubt that Islam came with everything that is good in this world and the Hereafter, and among that is the command to be just and the command to establish the fixed Qur'anic punishments among people, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And this is nothing but to achieve justice in the Muslim society. If we assume a Muslim society that does not establish the rule of Allah on earth, and that is something that cannot be established except upon establishing justice among the Muslims, then this state cannot stand, because at that time it is ruling by other than what Allah has revealed. And whoever rules by other than what Allah has revealed has exposed his nation and his state to collapse. This is what comes to my mind now as an answer to this first question.