For Educational purpose only and to raise Intellectual and Political awareness!
Question: Dear beloved Sheikh Sulaymaan bin Naasir al-Alwaan may Allah protect you. What is the ruling on fighting the disbelievers who attack Muslim lands?
Answer: Islam forbids abandonment, and surrendering the lands of Islam to the enemies of the Religion and the descendants of Apes and Swine’s. Islam calls us to fight in the Sake of Allah, and to fight the covenant violators and oppressors. And emphasizes the need to cleanse the Muslim lands from the hands of rapists (occupiers).
Allah says: “March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor), and strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah. This is better for you, if you but knew.” [9:41]
Allah also says: “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism, i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone (in the whole of the world). But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.” [8:39]
And the people of Knowledge agreed upon the obligatory to fight the disbelievers who attack/occupy the Muslim countries. If they stop their aggression only then the Obligation will fall for the other Muslims. But if the fighting is still going on, and expelling the disbelieving enemy from the Muslim countries failed, it becomes an obligation for the Muslims from the surrounding countries, that are close to the enemy, to give victory to them (i.e. the oppressed Muslims), by fighting the Kuffaar to repel their oppression and aggression.
Allah says: “And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the
Cause of Allah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men,
women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us
from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You
one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.” *
Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who
disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut. So fight you against
the friends of Shaitan. Ever feeble indeed is the plot of
Shaitan.“ [4:75-76]
This Quranic
verse demands (from us) to free the weak from amongst the believers
from the hands of the Kuffaar, Tyrants and criminals. Also the verse
demands (from us) to fight the Kuffaar. And the meaning of al-Qitaal (fighting) is to make the Word of Allah Supreme, to give victory to His
religion, to support the Muslims and to give them victory of the enemy
of Allah and their enemy. The person who is killed during this Jihad, is
a Shahid (Martyr). Prophet Muhammad (saws) said: “One who is slain in the way of Allah is a martyr; one who dies in the way of Allah, is a martyr.” [Part of Hadith in Sahih Muslim]
There are a
lot of narration from the Prophet (saws) that show us that
Jihad for the Sake of Allah is one of the best deeds, and that the one
who takes the responsibility on him, belongs to the best of Allah’s
servants. How precious is all that blood and lives that are sacrificed
for the Sake of Allah and to protect the Muslims from the oppression of
the Kuffaar.
Allah says: “Think not of
those who are killed in the Way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive,
with their Lord, and they have provision. * They rejoice in what Allah
has bestowed upon them of His Bounty and rejoice for the sake of those
who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred)
that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. * They rejoice
in a Grace and a Bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the
reward of the believers.” [3: 169-171]
Sheikh Sulaymaan bin Naasir al-‘Alwaan
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