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Answer 11034 March 22, 2004


The governments of the Muslim countries are legitimate. If they do not rule by Shari?ah law, they are sinful but that does not take them out of the fold of Islam.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

^What about other scholars do they share this opinion?

And also, if ruling by other than Sharia does not make them kuffar, then what about those who fight the Muslims while siding with kuffar? And tbh, a lot of these rulers must be kuffar for other reasons (like Ghadaffi was a kafir for trying to change Al Quran, even if he wasn't a kafir for not ruling by Sharia)