But this is our religion; it is the rule of God".
"Islamic" implies the rule of God; "republic" means the rule of the people.
"Islamic" implies the rule of God according to the Koran; "republic" means the rule of the people.
This company could be called theocratic in the sense that it was under the rule of God, whom church and state should alike serve in close collaboration.
Yearnings for freedom do pose a problem for terrorists who fight in the name of a pure, just rule of God on earth.
"To give your vote for Islamists is a religious issue," an Islamic scholar, Sayed Abdel Karim, declared at a campaign rally in Giza, across the Nile from Cairo, calling for "the rule of God, not the rule of the people".
Though some strands of the faith, such as Salafism, reject the "rule of man", and therefore democracy, as incompatible with the "rule of God", quite a few non-Arab Muslim states, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia, are fairly democratic.
It will help to show whether the majority of Iraqis want a multi-party democracy or whether, like Mr Zarqawi, they see democracy as a pernicious doctrine that puts rule by men in place of the rule of God.
The message of the apocalyptic writers is one of both warning, of the doom to come at the end of history, and hope in the new age beyond history under the rule of God, when the righteous will be vindicated.
The presumption is that anyone who is capable of recognizing the rule of God in his experience in society will also be capable of understanding what the nature of his obligation will be in specific circumstances.
