Taghut (every object of wrongful obedience)

Sha'rawi holds that taghut comes from the root of tyranny and that its form signals intensity. It includes Satan, the cleric, the sorcerer and the unjust ruler ¹.

He says taghut may be Satan, or someone who takes to himself the right to legislate, declaring others unbelievers or believers according to desire, or a sorcerer or charlatan, or anyone who exceeds the limit in a matter ¹.

He holds that tyranny begins by testing the ground and grows if people endure it, and that obedience in small matters increases the tyrant's power over the obedient ².

He explains that taghut is treated as singular in the verse, so that it covers one or several, as one says "a just person" for one or many ^{3 4}.

The list of forms is Sha'rawi's own and has not been checked against the tafsir and history books. No academic or non-Sunni view has been checked.