When is it obligatory to obey the one in authority and when is it permissible to disobey him. (The beginning of this topic is in number 638).

The Shaykh : This does not happen unless there is a Shura council comprising people of various specializations in all sciences, the first of which is the jurisprudence of the Book and the Sunnah. When such a Shura council, in the broadest sense of Shura, is established in a state, and then this council issues a system—call it a law or whatever—and imposes it on the Muslims, at that point we say it is obligatory to obey the one in authority. However, if the one in authority does not observe the right of Shura and the system of Shura in all its details, the one in authority may consult someone who has no religion, someone who has no jurisprudence, or someone who looks at the issue from a specific angle, such as a purely economic or purely regional angle, not a general Islamic communal one, and so on. Then there is no value to such an opinion issued by the one in authority. When it is as Allah the Exalted said: , then it is obligatory to obey the one in authority and leave aside personal opinions and self-interests. This is sufficient, and praise be to Allah.