He—may Allah have mercy on him—said: “For this reason the well-known doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah is that they do not consider it permissible to rise up against the rulers or fight them with the sword, even when those rulers are unjust, as is borne out by the numerous sound and widely transmitted hadith reports from the Prophet ﷺ. The turmoil, bloodshed, and discord that accompany rebellion are worse than the injustice that may occur under their rule when there is neither fighting nor civil strife. One must not attempt to avert one evil by unleashing an even greater one. Indeed, it is hardly possible to name a single faction that has ever rebelled against a ruler without its rebellion producing corruption more grievous than the corruption it intended to remove…1