统治与权威在伊斯兰中，指的是通过施行沙里亚的律法来管理民众的事务。这与依靠武力去做并不相同，因为国家之内的武力并非为照料民众、管理其事务而设。武力不是权威本身，尽管武力的存在、组建、管理与准备，若没有权威便无从实现。武力是一种有形的实体，表现为军队——包括警察部队——权威借其执行律法、击败罪犯与叛乱者、制裁不法之徒、遏制侵略者，并以之作为工具来保护权威，保护其所立基的概念与思想，并将它们传递到世界上。

Ruling and authority in Islam mean running the affairs of the people by applying the Shari’ah rules. This is not the same as doing this by force, for force within the State is not designed to look after people, or to manage their affairs. Force is not the authority, although its existence, formation, administration and preparation do not come about without authority. Force is a physical entity that manifests itself in the shape of the armed forces-including the police force-with which the authority executes the rules, defeats the criminals and the rebels, oppresses the outlaws, curbs the aggressors and uses it as a tool to protect the authority and the concepts and thoughts on which it is founded and to convey them to the world.

这清楚地表明，权威与强制力并不相同，尽管权威离开强制力便无法存续。它也表明，强制力与权威是两回事，尽管强制力离开权威同样无法存在。

This clearly demonstrates that the authority is not the same as force, although the authority could not survive without it. It also demonstrates that the force is other than the authority, although it cannot exist without it.

因此，统治权力转变为强制力量是不合法的。一旦权力变成了强制力量，其对民众事务的管理就必然遭受严重损害。这是因为它的观念和标准将变成强迫、压迫和支配的观念与标准，而非照管民众事务的观念与标准。如此一来，统治就会蜕变为一种只知恐怖、支配、压迫、强制和流血的专制统治。

It is therefore unlawful for the authority to become a force, for if authority turned into force, its management of people’s affairs would be badly affected. This is because its concepts and criteria would become the concepts and criteria of coercion, oppression and dominance, and not the concepts and criteria of looking after the people’s affairs. Ruling would then turn into an oppressive rule that knows nothing but terror, dominance, oppression, coercion and blood shedding.

同样，武力也不应转变为权威，因为那样就会以武力的概念来统治人民，并以军事统治以及镇压和强制的标准来处理人民的事务。无论哪种情况，都会带来灾难与毁灭，引发恐惧、恐怖和惊骇。它会把乌玛引向深渊，给它造成巨大的伤害。

Similarly force should not turn into authority, because it would rule people by the concept of force, and it would run people’s affairs by the concepts of military rule and the criteria of suppression and coercion. In both cases, this would bring disaster and ruin and cause fear, terror and horror. It would lead the Ummah to the abyss, causing it great harm.

在阿拉伯和伊斯兰国家的军事统治,为此提供了一个明显的例子。

The military rule in the Arab and Islamic countries offer a clear example of this.