Shaykh Ahmad as-Subay'ee حفظه الله said:
"The latest event (the attempted coup in Turkey) exposed the despicability of ahlul-bid’a, & their opportunism, & the amount of what is in their chests from innovated desires & oppression. So (with them) there is no legitimate ruler except for one from their ahzaab, & no explicit, clear positions or opinions unless it is in the benefit of their jamaa’aat. Rather the ugliness of bid’ah has brought them to ruling by other than what Allaah revealed by making the polls & ballot boxes the only measurement for the rule of the ruler or that he is the legitimate ruler. And what is understood from this is that all of the rulers not elected through elections are not legitimate rulers. And they know that these polls are a part of the integrated system which is democracy, & it is ruling by other than what Allaah (عزّ وجل) revealed. And it is (the exact same thing) that they used to declared the rulers to be kuffaar for - for decades - & called them tawaagheet (false deities) because of that, & they know for a surety that all of their knowledge & da’wah-based efforts that they expended for decades were to make this system legitimate by distortion & deviation so that it will become from Islaam or not be in opposition to Islaam, & all of these were failed efforts in front of all of the Muslims – except for their followers."
- excerpt from إنقلاب تركيا وفضيحة أهل البدع (The coup-attempt in Turkey & the disgrace of ahlul-bid'a)
"The latest event (the attempted coup in Turkey) exposed the despicability of ahlul-bid’a, & their opportunism, & the amount of what is in their chests from innovated desires & oppression. So (with them) there is no legitimate ruler except for one from their ahzaab, & no explicit, clear positions or opinions unless it is in the benefit of their jamaa’aat. Rather the ugliness of bid’ah has brought them to ruling by other than what Allaah revealed by making the polls & ballot boxes the only measurement for the rule of the ruler or that he is the legitimate ruler. And what is understood from this is that all of the rulers not elected through elections are not legitimate rulers. And they know that these polls are a part of the integrated system which is democracy, & it is ruling by other than what Allaah (عزّ وجل) revealed. And it is (the exact same thing) that they used to declared the rulers to be kuffaar for - for decades - & called them tawaagheet (false deities) because of that, & they know for a surety that all of their knowledge & da’wah-based efforts that they expended for decades were to make this system legitimate by distortion & deviation so that it will become from Islaam or not be in opposition to Islaam, & all of these were failed efforts in front of all of the Muslims – except for their followers."
- excerpt from إنقلاب تركيا وفضيحة أهل البدع (The coup-attempt in Turkey & the disgrace of ahlul-bid'a)
