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We send to you this open letter, far removed from royal complimentary titles and words of glorification. It shall be a frank manifesto to make apparent that which you, and those around you, have committed against Allah and Islam. Against the Land of Islam and the Muslims. And against the Sacred City (of Mecca) and the Muslim Nation. We hope that our frankness in displaying the glaring truth to you will tear through the barriers you have set up between you and it.
O King, this letter is in response to the roguery and mind-games you and your implementer Princes have played on people, so that you may suppress their anger upon you and your ways. Your marginal and deceiving "rectifications" are nothing but short-term sedative measures to ease this anger. Examples of the former would be the Shura (Deliberation) Council that you have set up, which the Muslim Nation has awaited for a long time. And to their disappointment, it was born dead. Now you established this ministerial marginal change, that didn’t have any effects on the sources of all evil – namely you, your Defence Minister, Internal Affairs Minister, Prince of Riyaadh, and the likes of you all.
The main reason for writing this letter to you is not your oppression of people and their rights (especially the scholars, the callers to righteousness, the merchants, and the senior chiefs of tribes). It’s not your insult to the dignity of our nation, your desecration of its sanctuaries, and your embezzlement of its wealth and riches. It’s not what has been spread during your reign of bribery, forging, and disintegration of management and morals. It’s not the economic breakdown that has hit the country and almost made it reach the level of bankruptcy. These things are all important, but we shall discuss them at another time after we expose to you the quintessence of our dispute with you. The quintessence of our dispute is the fact that your ruling system has transgressed "la ilaha illa Allah" (There is no God but Allah – Muslims’ declaration of faith), and that is the basis on which Tawheed (monotheism – belief in Oneness of God) that differentiates between belief and disbelief. All the aforementioned problems are a result of your transgression against the basic tenants of Tawheed. Since we are, inshaaAllah (Allah willing), going to soon release detailed findings of a research about your transgression, we will confine our letter to two main aspects:
Ruling By And Legislating Other Than That Which Allah Has Sent
It has recurred in Qur’anic verses, the Sunnah (Prophetic traditions), and the sayings of the Scholars of the Muslim Nation, that whomsoever vindicates for himself or others to follow a positivistic legislature or a man-made law that transgresses the laws of Allah then he, in fact, is a disbeliever and is out of our creed.
Allah – Exalted be He – says:
Shaykh Abdul-Rahmaan bin Hassan aal al-Shaykh – may Allah have mercy on him – has said in the interpretation of this verse: Whomsoever calls to arbitrating other than Allah and His Messenger, he has then left what the Messenger – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – brought, refuted it, and has ascribed partners in his obedience to Allah and he has gone against what the Prophet – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – taught us when the following verses were revealed to him:
 Whomsoever contradicts that which Allah and His Messenger have ordered and arbitrates between people by other than that which Allah has sent. Or ordered that so as to fulfill his desires, he indeed has disbelieved and expelled himself from the folds of Islam – even if he says that he’s a believer. Allah – Exalted be He – has disavowed their belief and refuted it in the verse (mentioned above) when He used the word "claim" – referring to the false claim of them still believing – for they were "ordered to reject them" (the false judges). The disbelief in Taghut (false judges) is an essential basis for believing in monotheism and the Oneness of God, as mentioned in the verse:
If this pillar is not fulfilled, the person is not a monotheist, and monotheism is the base of the belief whose presence a man’s deeds and its absence hinders them. (From the book "Fat-h al-Majeed, Sharh Kitaab al-Tawheed" pg. 392-393)
Shaykh Muhammad bin Ibraheem aal al-Shaykh – may Allah have mercy on him – said in regards to the interpretation of the verse:
Allah has disavowed the belief of those hypocrites who arbitrate between people by other than that which the Messenger – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – brought. Allah – Exalted be He - used the word "claim" – referring to the false claim of believing, for belief and arbitration by other than that which the Messenger – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – cannot be combined in the heart of a believer. In fact, they annul each other. The word "Taghut" is derived from "Tughyaan": the transgression of boundaries. Whomsoever rules by other than that which the Messenger – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – brought, he has in fact ruled by the Taghut] *From the letter "Tahkeem al-Qawaneen" by Shaykh Mohammed bin Ibraheem aal al-Shaykh.
Allah says:
 Ibn Katheer says with regards to the interpretation of this verse: Whoever disregards the laws of Allah, the laws that comprise all goodness and forbid all evil, and takes on man-made laws, views, and desires, which were put in place without any reference to the laws of Allah – as is the case in the times of ignorance, when people would rule by laws laid out to satisfy their whims and desires. Or like the Tatars who ruled by laws derived from the doctrine “The Yaasiq” put for them by their King “Jankeez Khan”. The Yaasiq, which is a collection of rules he derived from Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other creeds, as well as things he put from his own self to suit his whims. That became a prioritized legislature to be followed and implemented before the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger – peace be upon him. Such a person is to be regarded as a disbeliever and should be killed - unless he returns to ruling by the laws of Allah and His Messenger in all matters, big or small.
Is this Yaasiq but a modern example of the rules that you and your ruling system go by and those likes you?
The arbitration of positivistic laws and judging by them is, without doubt, a form of worship to the author of these laws, and a form of distancing those who follow these legislations from the ones set by Allah. This meaning has been clarified by the Messenger – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – to Adyy bin Haatim in the Hadith related by at-Tirmithy and others:
While Adyy bin Haatim was still a Christian, he heard the Prophet – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him – reciting the verse:
He said: "O Messenger of Allah, we did not worship them" The Messenger – peace be upon him said: "Did they not make forbidden that which Allah has made lawful for you, and so you forbade it? And they made lawful what Allah has forbidden, and you then legitimized it? He said "They did." The Messenger replied: "That is a form of worshiping them".
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