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GOVERNING YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY ACCORDING TO WHAT ALLAH HAS REVEALED

Taking as Lords Rabbis and Monks 

Allāh (15) said about Jews and Christians: 

They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allāh, and (they also took as their Lord) Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), while they were commanded [in the Taurat and the Injil to worship none but One Ilah (God – Allāh).

None has the right to be worshipped but He Praise and glory be to Him, (far above is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him). (Qur’ān 9:31) If Allāh () prohibited a matter that their rabbis and priests deemed permissible, Jews and Christians would disobey Allāh and instead follow their rabbis and priests;

likewise, if Allāh () permitted a practice that their rabbis and priests forbade, Jews and Christians would follow the latter, deeming that practice to be forbidden.

And this is how Christians and Jews took their rabbis and monks to be their lords besides Allāh. 

Adi Ibn Hātim (site) said, 

“I went to the Prophet (), and I was (wearing] on my neck a cross made of gold. He () said, ‘O‘Adi! Cast away from your person this idol.’ And I heard him recite in Sürah Barā’ah (“The ninth chapter”): 

They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allāh. 

He said, ‘True, they did not worship them (their rabbis and monks), but when they (their rabbis and monks) ruled that something was permissible for them, they (Jews and Christians) would deem that thing to be permissible (even if Allah forbade that thing upon them).

And when they forbade them from something, they would deem that thing to be forbidden (even 

if Allāh decreed that thing to be lawful).””|| In another narration of the same hadith, it is reported that ‘Adi Ibn Hātim, who had embraced Christianity before Islām, went to the Prophet, and when he heard the Prophet recite this verse, he said, “O Messenger of Allāh!

Verily, they (Christians and Jews) do not worship them (their rabbis and monks).” The Prophet said, 

“To the contrary (i.e., they do in fact do so): indeed, they (their rabbis and monks) forbade them from what is lawful, and made lawful for them what is forbidden, and they (Christians and Jews) then followed them (their rabbis and monks).

And that is their worship of them.”?

Allāh said in the above-mentioned verse that Jews and Christians took their rabbis and monks to be their lords besides Allāh, yet they did not worship them through the act of Prayer, Țawāf (going around them as people go around the Ka bah), or any other ostensible act of worship.

Therefore, from the verse and from Adi’s hadith, it becomes clear that to not rule according to what Allāh () has revealed is a form of worship.

In certain situations, then, a person might be worshipping other than Allāh () when he seeks judgement regarding a matter not in Allāh’s Shari’ah, but elsewhere. 

Related by al-Tirmidhi – Şahiḥ Sunan al-Tirmidhi (2471). 2 This is a ḥasan hadith, which our Shaykh – may Allāh have mercy on him – mentioned in Al-Mustalahāt Al-Arba’ah Fil-Qur’ān (Pgs. 18-20). 

Ruling According to What Allāh Has Revealed: How? 

Simply put, in order to rule according to what Allāh has revealed, we must deem (both in belief and in deed) forbidden that which Allāh (automat) prohibited, and we must deem lawful that which Allāh (inte has made lawful?

To do that, we must of course know what is lawful and what is prohibited. And we must seek judgement with Allāh () in all matters – Prayer, fasting, Zakāt, and Hajj; marriage banquets and funerals; the way we dress;

our food and drink; the affairs of the individual, the family, the society, and the Nation; business matters; the affairs of peace and war; in short, we must seek judgement with Allāh () in all of the affairs of our life. 

And let us confidently assert that a person does not really rule according to what Allāh (tem) has revealed if: 

He ostensibly proclaims the need to establish Islamic law as a system and way of life, yet he demands a disproportionately large 

As for opinions that the people of knowledge arrived at through Ijtihād (deriving rulings from revealed sources), it is not correct for one to say that they prohibit what is lawful or make lawful what is prohibited.

 In fact, a scholar is rewarded for striving to judge based on what he infers from the Qur’ān and Sunnah (of course, only in issues wherein a ruling is not clearly mentioned in the Qur’ān and Sunnah).

In an authentically established hadith, the Prophet (*) said, “When a judge issues a correct ruling, he receives two rewards. And when he issues an incorrect ruling, he receives one reward.”