Needless to say, the spread of the Doctrines of Islam and the establishment of an Islamic State based on those Doctrines were not easy tasks. It took a great deal of endeavors and sacrifices on the part of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, the righteous members of his House, and his good companions. The opponents of Islam were violent and numerous. The Muslims were overwhelmingly outnumbered. They were subjected to fierce attacks for more than two decades.

The Muslims finally won the struggle, conquered their enemies and removed the barriers which prevented Islam from spreading throughout the Arabic Peninsula. The wave of Islam swept into it many of its old enemies who adopted the new Faith, but many of them were not genuine in their conversion. They declared their Islam and kept their hostile feelings towards the Prophet and his religion.

They managed (after the death of the Holy Prophet Mohammad) to infiltrate the Islamic Regimes during the days of Omar and Othman, as subversive elements. They 

became extremely powerful in the Islamic State, and finally reached the high office of the caliphate.

Their aim was not to follow or enforce the Islamic Rules. It was rather to satisfy their desire for authority at the expense of Islam. They were ready to revise the Faith of Islam and to legalize what it prohibited.

These elements could not destroy Islam from without. They wanted to destroy it from within.

The Holy Prophet Mohammad had foreseen that through the light of God and His Revelation. He forecast battles for correction of deviation and misinterpretation movements similar to the battles of the establishment of the revealed rules of the Holy Qur’an.

Al-Hakim recorded in his Mustadrak, part 3, p. 139, that Abu Saeed Al-Khidri reported that the Messenger of God said: "Au shall fight for the interpretation of the Holy Qur’an as I fought for its Revelation."

People are mostly followers of their leaders. When a Muslim government is unrighteous, it becomes possible for it to interpret the Holy Qur’an and hadiths of the Prophet in a way that agrees with its wrong policy which does not agree with the true Islamic teaching.

Such a government would be more dangerous to Islam than a non-Muslim government. A non-Muslim government would not be able to interpret for the Muslims their religion because the Muslims would not trust such a government on their faith and its interpretation.

On the other hand, when the leadership is hypocrite appearing as Islamic, concealing its unbelief and controlling the national forces and wealth, it would be able to subdue any Muslim opposition by its controls of Muslim forces. It would be able through the sources of its propaganda to confuse the truth with the falsehood.

It was of the most dangerous development in our history that the rulers used the Holy Qur’an against itself and the hadith of the Prophet against his very teaching. It became prevalent among our masses that a Muslim ruler was to be obeyed by the people even when he was wrong. They quoted from the Holy Qur’an for this false doctrine