According to the Quran the entire Ummah, as compared to the non-Muslims, is one party.
Within the Ummah itself the presence of parties, may it be religious parties or political
parties, is 'shirk' (assigning partners unto Allah). The Divine Command is: (30:31-32)
"O believers, remember! Be not of those who follow laws other than His and thus set up
peers with Allah i.e. be not of those who create cleavage in their social order and divide
themselves into various sects, where each sect becomes obsessed with its own view of it and
the 'Deen' disappears.:
At another place it is said: (6:160)
"Those who create differences in 'Deen' (the way of life prescribed by Allah) and divide
themselves into sects (O Messenger of Allahe) you have nothing to do with them. Leave their
affair for the Law of Allah to decide, which would tell them how they acted."
In Surah Aal-e-Imraan it is said: (3:104)
"Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into disputations after
receiving clear signs from Allah. For them is a dreadful penalty."
From these and several other similar verses of the Quran, this reality becomes apparent that
when the Ummah gets divided into parties and sects, neither the Deen (way of life prescribed
by Allah) survives, nor an Islamic State can come into existence under such circumstances.
Deen is another name for the Islamic State which has one code of guidance (Book of Allah),
one Ummah as its upholder, and one central authority of the state. In this state, the entire
Ummah, in the form of a compact body, revolves around the pivot of the Quran. Look how
clearly the Quran explains this reality when it says: (3:102) "And hold fast, all together, the rope which Allah stretches out for you and be not divided
among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah's favour on you; you were enemies and
He joined your hearts in love, so that by His grace you became brethren and you were on the
brink of the pit of fire, and His Divine System saved you from it. Thus Allah makes His
messages clear to you that you may be guided."
The greatest crime of Pharaoh, as Allah says in the Quran, was that he had divided his people
into parties. (28:4)
"He broke up his people into sections".