to give legal verdicts on its basis (1), or to write according to it, or to convey it to the generality of the Ummah. Yet this is forbidden by the Qur’an, the Sacred Law, the Sunnah, all that is commonly acknowledged as right, sound guidance and counsel (2), obedience to Allah and His Messenger, and by whatever the angels brought down from Allah to His prophets (3). Instead, it calls for hypocrisy, speech fabricated without authority from Allah, innovation (4), evil and misguidance (5), obedience to patrons other than Allah, and following what the devils have revealed. This is among the gravest forms of replacing the religion of the All-Merciful with the religion of Satan, and of taking rivals (6) besides Allah.

Allah the Exalted says:

“The believing men and believing women are allies of one another; they enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong.” (7)

And He says:

“The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another…” (8)

This statement, then, forbids the path of the believers and enjoins the path (9) of the hypocrites. Allah, Most High, says:

“When a messenger came to them from Allah, confirming what they already had, a faction of those who had been given the Scripture cast the Book of Allah behind their backs as though they did not know”—up to His words—“but it was the devils who disbelieved.” (10)

Thus, Glorified be He, condemned those among the People of the Book who flung (11) the Book of Allah behind their backs and followed what the devils devised (12), and