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As for the questioner’s inquiry, “Is the ruler obliged to rebuke and restrain them?”—yes, he must do so with these people and anyone who openly advances a doctrine contrary to the Quran and Sunnah. This is among the “wrong” that Allah has commanded be forbidden, as He, Most High, says:

“Let there be among you a group who call to good, enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong.”

It is also among the “sin” of which Allah says:

“Why do their religious scholars and rabbis not forbid them from sinful speech and consuming unlawful gain?”

Anyone among those who deny Allah’s attributes or liken Him to His creation who affirms of Allah what He has denied of Himself, or denies of Allah what He has affirmed of Himself, has spoken untruth about Allah. This is something Allah has forbidden in His words to the Christians:

“O People of the Scripture, do not go to extremes in your religion, and say nothing about Allah except the truth.”

And in His words:

“Say, ‘O People of the Scripture, do not go to extremes in your religion beyond the truth, and do not follow the desires of people who went astray before, led many others astray, and strayed from the right path.’”

He says of Satan:

“He only commands you to commit evil and indecency, and to say about Allah what you do not know.”

And He says:

“Say, ‘My Lord has only forbidden shameful deeds, whether committed openly or in secret, sin, and unjust aggression