Yet we nevertheless find that many of his followers act contrary to this advice, making the bulk of their preaching the exclusive attribution of judgment to Allah and expressing it with the well-known slogan, “al-ḥākimiyyah lillāh” (“sovereignty belongs to Allah”). There is no doubt that judgment belongs to Allah alone, without partner in this or anything else.

Even so, one of them will blindly follow one of the four legal schools and, when a clear and authentic Sunnah reaches him, retort, “That is against my school!” Where, then, is ruling by what Allah has revealed when it comes to following the Sunnah?

Another you will find worshipping Allah through Sufi rituals—so where is ruling by what Allah has revealed concerning tawḥīd (pure monotheism)? They demand of others what they do not demand of themselves.

Implementing Allah’s revealed rulings in your creed, your worship, your behavior, your household, the upbringing of your children, your buying and your selling is very easy indeed, whereas forcing—or removing—the ruler who, in many of his judgments, rules by other than what Allah has revealed is extremely difficult. Why, then, abandon what is easy for what is so hard?