What is the ruling on one who commands an act of disobedience due to lust or personal inclination, such as commanding the eating of carrion or looking at that which is unlawful, and is he considered a disbeliever, or does he remain Muslim?

Ordering disobedience and urging it are among the greatest evils. The verse indicates that whoever witnesses an evil and does not turn away from its perpetrators is like them. If the one who remains silent about an evil, despite being able to denounce it or distance himself from it, is like the one who commits it, then the one who orders the evil or is pleased with it is even more criminal than the one who remains silent. Merely ordering disobedience is not disbelief, unless the one ordering it deems permissible what is known by necessity in the religion to be forbidden. Similarly, legislating generally in a manner contrary to the Sharia is considered disbelief, as it necessitates deeming impermissible what is permissible, or permissible what is impermissible.