Imam Bukhari narrates from the Prophet***...

Imam Bukhari narrates from the Prophet***,*** “After me, there will be rulers (wilat), and you will find good ones and corrupt ones. You Muslims have to listen to both of them.

Whoever breaks the unity of the whole (the jama΄ah) will be considered outside of the religion of Islam.”[^20] Such a hadith is not compatible with the Noble Qur’an, which says: “And incline not towards those who do wrong (dhalamu) lest the Fire touch you and you have no protector other than Allah, nor will you be helped.” [^21] The Noble Qur’an clearly emphasizes that those who believe should neither support nor incline towards an oppressor at all.

There is no way to justify paying allegiance to or endorsing an oppressor to be the caliph or leader of the Muslim nation ( ummah ); doing so, would be in gross violation of the Qur’anic injunctions. Verse 4:59 not only commands the faithful to obey the ’Ul ul-’amr or their legitimate guardians (who are the infallible imams ) but it also rectifies their infallibility since no corrupt or wrongdoing person could be entitled by Allah to assume this trust.

[^1]: Noble Qur’an, 3:26 [^2]: Noble Qur’an, 114:1-3 [^3]: Noble Qur’an, 5:18 [^4]: Noble Qur’an, 6:57 [^5]: Noble Qur’an, 6:62 [^6]: Noble Qur’an, 42:10 [^7]: Noble Qur’an, 3:154 [^8]: Noble Qur’an, 7:54 [^9]: Noble Qur’an, 13:31 [^10]: Noble Qur’an, 33:36 [^11]: Noble Qur’an, 5:55 [^12]: Noble Qur’an, 24:51 [^13]: Noble Qur’an, 4:64 [^14]: Noble Qur’an, 4:65 [^15]: Noble Qur’an, 3:31 [^16]: Noble Qur’an, 7:3 [^17]: Noble Qur’an, 28:68 [^18]: Noble Qur’an, 40:20 [^19]: Noble Qur’an, 4:59 [^20]: Sahih al-Bukharim, Kitab al-Imara, Hadith 1096, “The Book of Trials” Hadith 6530 and 6531, “Legal Judgments” Hadith 6610; Sahih Muslim, Kitab al-Imara, Hadith 3438; Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Part 1, 275, 297 and 310’ al-Darami, “The Book on Biographies” Hadith 2407 [^21]: Noble Qur’an, 11:113 Previous…