The most divine statement in Islam is there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. Within Islam, the chain of command is Allah>Muhammad>Muslims. Between Muhammad and Muslims there are a series of intermediaries in the form of scholars, mullahs, writers of commentaries etc, who articulate what the ‘orders’ are. The act of obedience in Islam is to command. To command belief is to command a form of obedience. For those who doesn’t obey ended up shooting or beheaded. Islam builds on a common human tendency to obey authority. This relates to “Stanford Prison Experiment” by Zimbardo specifically looking at a specific scenes where group of guards were mistreating the prisoners.
