The Islamic state recognizes the sovereignty of God, which meant God was the source of all law. The Islamic state acts as the vicegerent or agent of God on earth and enforces Islamic law, which as mentioned above is both all-embracing and "totally silent" on a "vast range of human affairs". While the government follows the "sharia" law, when it comes to a question about which no explicit injunction is to be found in the "sharia", the matter is "settled by consensus among the Muslims."