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Bilad Al Sham Media

Presents: (4)

The English translation of a section of our release:

“Reply to some Shubuhaat about going to Jihad”

Abandoning the wife and children which leads to;

1) The obligation of instructing them religiously?

2) The obligation of supporting them physically and financially?

Who will carry them out after you? Are these valid excuses to stay back?

03 October 2013

Compiled: Abu Dujanah Al Maaldifi

Translation: Bilad Al Sham Media

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Introduction to Translation

This is the translation of a part of the Dhivehi article “Jihadhah Dhiumaa Beheygothun Ba’eh

Shubuhathakuge Radd” (Reply To Some Shubuhaat about going to Jihad) of Bilad Al Sham Media which

was published on 15 August 2013. This article was originally compiled due to some of the baseless

arguments produced by those regarded as Scholars in Maldives against some of the brothers in Syria,

Sham. The article replies to the doubt of seeking permission from parents and the doubt of leaving wife

and children behind. We have decided to translate the introduction and the second doubt which is

about leaving the wife and children. We did not translate the doubt of permission from parents because

there are many literatures on that in English, from them the translated works of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam

Rahimahullah.

We have added and deducted what we see fit and this is with the consent of the compiler of the article.

Bilad Al Sham Media

Introduction of the Article

ل.لوعلىلآعهلوصحبهلوسلملواعصالةلواعسالملعلىلايمباوثلبلعسيفلبمحةلعلاليمن.لدم ل هللب لاعاليمناحل :للبا مثلأم

Accepting and obedience to every commandment of Allah is Wajib upon the entirety of Jinn and

Humans. The evidence is the words of Allah:

لعي اب ونل نسلإل ومللخلقتلالنلوال

Meaning: “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.”

The meaning is that the Jinn and Humans were created to accept and obey every command of Allah and

this is known as al-Islam. And the Prophet of Allah explained and made this Deen clear for everyone.

However it will turn to be something strange as was informed by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.

ب ألالسالملغريبللوسياودلغريبللكدمللب أ،لفطوبللعلغربلء

Meaning: “Islam began as something strange and it will return to being something strange just

as it began (strange.) So glad tidings be to the strangers”

From the benefits of this Hadith is that there will always be a group from this Ummah firmly following

the evidences upon the Haqq (truth). And also the Hadith shows that even though this Deen is being

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attacked, it is not allowed for you to abandon it. And that even if the Munafiqun and the ignorant ones

turn away from some of the commandments and slogans of the Deen, it is not permissible for you to

abandon it like them. Rather what is upon you is to remain firm following the predecessors as a

stranger in the times of strangeness, longing for the meeting at the Hawd.

From the intellectual war being waged against this Deen inorder to turn people away from its

commandments, a wide role will be played by learned men and included in them are religiously learned

scholars of the Deen. Listen to the words of Allah:

ف لدمللجلءت هملبسلهملبلعب ي نلتلفرحوالبللعن هملمنلاعالمل

Meaning: “And when their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they [merely]

rejoiced in what they had of knowledge.”

And these satanic scholars would work to humiliate the slaves of Allah who act according the Deen of

Allah firmly and declare them lowly and lesser than them in Deen due to what they possess of

knowledge. And they would sit in the path of Allah and bring forth doubts (shubuhaat) which they

consider as evidences in the Deen inorder to hinder men from the path of Allah.

غون هللعوجل ن يللعلىلالخرةلويص ونلعنلسبيللاعلهلوي ب أوعئكلفلضالللباي لل اعذينليستحبونلاحليلةلاع

Meaning: “The ones who prefer the worldly life over the Hereafter and avert [people] from

the way of Allah, (invent various shubuhaat (doubts)) seeking to make it (seem) deviant.

Those are in extreme error.”

And even from the various paths of goodness, these Shayatin would pay more attention to sit on the

paths of extra virtue and goodness. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said:

فاصلهلفأسلم،لمثلقا ل!لدينكلودينلآبلئكلوآبلءلأبيك؟ تسلملوتذب:لإنلاعشيطلنلقا للبنلآدملبأطرقه،لفقا لعهلبطريقلالسالم،لفقلل فهلجر،لمثلقا لعهلبطريق فاصله!لاعطول؟هتلجرلوت علأبضكلومسلءك،لوإمنللمثللايمهلجرلكدمثللاعفرسلفل:ل عهلبطريقلاهلجرة،لفقلل

لفقلللبسوللا هللصلىلا هل.لفاصلهلفجله !لفتقتل،لفتنكحلايمرأة،لويقسملايملل؟ جتله لفهولجه لاعنفسلوايملل،لفتقلتل:لالهلد،لفقلل وإنلغرقلكلن.للنة هللأنلي خلهلاكلنلحقللعلىلا ومنلقتل.لفدمنلفاللذعكلكلنلحقللعلىلا هللعزلوجللأنلي خلهلالنة:لعليهلوسلم

ل".أولوقصتهلدابتهلكلنلحقللعلىلا هللأنلي خلهلالنةل حقللعلىلا هللأنلي خلهلالنة،Meaning: Indeed Shaythan sits in the paths of the son of Adam. So he sat in the path of Islam and said:

‘Will you accept Islam and leave your religion and the religion of your fathers and forefathers?!’ The son

of Adam disobeys Shaythan and becomes Muslim. After that, the Shaythan sits for him in the path of

Hijra and says: ‘Will you make Hijra and leave your land and sky? And indeed the example of the Muhajir

(emigrant) is the horse tethered to a peg?!’ The son of Adam disobeys him and makes Hijra. Then he sits

for him in the path of Jihad and says: ‘Will you wage Jihad while it is an exhaustion of the self and

wealth? Then you will fight and be killed, and your wife would marry (someone else) and your wealth

will be divided?!’ The son of Adam disobeys him and wages Jihad. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

said: “Whoever does that, then it becomes incumbent upon Allah to enter him to Paradise. Whoever is

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killed, it becomes incumbent upon Allah to admit him to Paradise. If he drowns, it becomes incumbent

upon Allah to admit him to Paradise. If he breaks his neck by falling of his animal, it becomes incumbent

upon Allah to admit him to Paradise.” Ahmed and al-Nasai narrated it. Hafiz al-Iraqi said that the Sanad

is Jayyid (good) in Takhrij al-Ihya

And from the paths which the Shaytan’s helpers sit today mostly, is the path of Jihad. And inorder to

achieve their aim, they produce various false, baseless doubts which they claim to be evidences. Allah

said:

لب اضلزخرفلاعقول نسلوالنليوحيلب اضهملإل عكلجالنللعكللنبلع والشيلطنلال للغروباوكذ

Meaning: “And thus We have made for every prophet enemies - Shayatin from mankind and

jinn, inspiring to one another decorated speech inorder to deceive.”

So from the decorated false speech, you would find they produce various doubts regarding Jihad and

the Mujahidin. And they would even accuse the Mujahidin with various accusations which they would

spread on TV channels, websites and they would not even hesitate to direct these shubuhaat (doubts) to

the families of the Mujahidin thus deceiving them and preventing them from the reward of Jihad.

From among their well spread doubts is the doubt of the Mujahid going to Jihad, parting from his wife

and children.

Everything that I mention in this article will be regarding the defensive Jihad which is Fard Ayn on every

single Mukallaf. 1 Fard Ayn is a burden where the obligation is not lifted from you even if a certain group

of Muslims carry it out. Rather every single Mukallaf is addressed and is burdened with this obligation.

1) These “scholars” accuse him of abandoning the guiding and instructing of his family which is a

Wajib upon him. And they argue that the Mujahid should have stayed at his home in order to

instruct his family and that this is a valid excuse to stay back from Jihad.

2) And they accuse him of abandoning the supporting of his family financially and physically. And

they argue that he must stay with his family in order to support them and that this is a valid

excuse to stay back from Jihad.

In this topic, what comes to mind is the Munafiqun of the past who sought to stay back from Jihad with

the excuse that their homes and the people in it are under threat from an attack of the enemy or

robbery. Allah said informing about them:

هملاعنبلي قوعونلإنلب يوت نللعوبةلومللهيلباوبةل لفرلل ويستأذنلفريقلمن اباإنليري ونلإل

Meaning: “And a party of them asked permission of the Prophet, saying, "Indeed, our houses

are unprotected," while they were not unprotected. They did not intend except to flee.”

1 Mukallaf means the Baliq and Aqil. (Mature and Sane) [Usul min Ilm al-Usul of Sheikh Uthaymin Rahimahullah]

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And Allah revealed regarding the people who stay away from the Wajib Hijra and Jihad due to their

attachment to family and etc:

لإعيكملقللإنلكلنلآبلؤكملوأب نلؤكملوإخوانكملوأزواجكملوعشريتكملوأمواللاق ت رف تدموهللوجتل شونلكسلدهللومسلكنلت رضون هللأح لبةلليأتلاعلهلبأمرهل واعلهلللي ه يلاعقوملاعفلسقنلل منلاعلهلوبسوعهلوجهلدلفلسبيلهلف ت ربصوالحت

Meaning: “Say, [O Muhammad], "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your

relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and

dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger

and jihad in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command. And Allah does not guide

the defiantly disobedient people.”

Insha Allah now we will begin with the two doubts which come from “abandoning the family.”

The first one is leaving the Fard Ayn Jihad inorder to guide and instruct one’s family religiously.

Firstly, know that something which has been established so clearly in the Deen of Allah cannot be left

except unless there is a clear cut evidence which makes the concession. Jihad is a well understood Wajib

and when it becomes Fard Ayn, it cannot be left unless one has an excuse which is known in the Shariah.

Is there a single evidence from the Book or Sunnah with them which would suggest that this Jihad can

be left inorder to instruct and guide one’s family along the straight path? Rather the evidence is against

them and if one looks into the lives of the Salaf he would see that they would leave their families and

head to the fields of Jihad seeking martyrdom.

Seeking to guide and instruct ones family by committing the Haram and abandoning the Wajibat2 is

something I am hearing for the first time. The one who says this should bring forth his evidence. The

point here is that we should follow the Salaf and what is clear from them is that they headed to the

battle field seeking martyrdom and is there any narration where one of the Salaf would accuse the other

of not giving his family their rights and abandoning the obligation of instructing them by this? Wives and

children existed back than also.

And the Munafiqun of the past sought to stay back from Jihad saying that the Jihad brings certain harms.

Allah said:

لوللت فتنل نةلسقطوال ومن هملمنلي قوللائذنلل وإنلجهنملعدمحيطةلبلعكلفرينلل أللفلاعفت

Meaning: “And among them is he who says, "Permit me [to remain at home] and do not put

me to fitna." Unquestionably, into fitna they have fallen (due to their leaving of Jihad). And

indeed, Hell will encompass the disbelievers.”

2 Wajibat is the plural of Wajib.

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This Ayat was revealed regarding a man who said that going to Jihad against the Romans would put him

into fitna after seeing the Roman women. This is regarding the man who said he himself would face

fitna. But the topic at hand is leaving one’s family which might be a cause of fitna for them according to

the satanic scholars. Would this second person be excused while the first one was not? The reality is

that the harm and fitna of leaving the Jihad is more harmful than all what was mentioned and leaving

the Jihad is a major sin deserving of punishment. Allah said:

بكملعذابللأعيدمل لتنفروالي اذ إل

Meaning: “If you do not go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment.”

And Sheikhul Islam Ibn Thaymiyya Rahimahullah said:

“From amongst the people, there appeared those who abandoned obligations with the claim that they

were seeking protection from Fitna.” Majmu al-Fatawa 18/166

So falling into the dangerous fitna of leaving the Jihad under the pretext of giving the family their rights

and establishing other obligations is not suitable for the one with understanding. What needs to be

understood is that the fitna which you fear for your family will be gone when you do your Jihad against

the disbelievers and their Kufr. This is as this will lead to the building of an Islamic environment upon

Tawhid for your children and their children to grow up in. Allah made this clear in His statement:

ينلكلهلعلهل نةلويكونلاع لللتكونلفت وقلتلوهملحت

Meaning: “And fight them until there is no fitna (Shirk) and [until] the religion (worship), all of

it, is for Allah (alone).”

So the Ayat makes clear what needs to be done if one wants an Islamic environment free from Shirk for

himself and his family. And that is fighting Shirk and its people. If this fighting is not established, Shirk

would spread and would dominate the world as is seen today even in our own lands. The evidence is:

وعوللدفعلاعلهلاعنلسلب اضهملبب اضلعفس تلالبضل

Meaning: “And if it were not for Allah repelling [some] people by means of others, the earth

would have been corrupted”

So whoever sincerely wants to bring up his family religiously should do Jihad against the disbelievers and

their shirk. Not earn the anger of Allah by leaving the Wajib Jihad and by this hope that by the Mercy of

Allah, He would guide him and his family. Because Mercy is for those who do good by obeying Allah’s

commandments. Jihad today is Fard Ayn and leaving it earns the wrath of Allah and guidance is for those

whom Allah has Mercy upon. And Mercy is for those who obey Allah by fulfilling His commandments.

Allah said:

إنلاعذينلآمنوالواعذينلهلجروالوجله والفلسبيللاعلهلأوعئكلي رجونلبمحتلاعلهل

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Meaning: “Indeed, those who have believed and those who have emigrated and fought in the

cause of Allah - those expect the mercy of Allah.”

So the one who commits the major sin of leaving the Wajib Jihad, let him not be proud of himself and

declare that he is instructing and guiding his family religiously. Verily guidance is from the Mercy of Allah

and the Ayat makes clear upon whom Allah will have Mercy.

Another point which needs to be understood is that one can guide and instruct another person only

after he himself is guided in the first place. Allah made clear that guidance is for those who do Jihad:

فينللعن ه ي ن هملسب لنلواعذينلجله وال

Meaning: “And those who do Jihad in Our cause - We will surely guide them to Our ways.”

Sheikhul Islam Ibn Thaymiyya Rahimahullah said: “The guidance which is surrounded by the doors of

knowledge is incumbent upon doing Jihad” Majmu al Fatawa 28/442

And he narrated from Abdullah ibn Al-Mubarak and Ahmad ibn Hanbal Rahimahumallah that they said,

"If the people disagree (ikhtilaaf) regarding anything, then look at what the Mujahidun say - since the

Truth is with them” Majmu Al-Fatawa 28/442 (and he mentioned the above Ayat)

And Allah said:

عئنلشكرتللزي نكمل

Meaning: “If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]”

Obeying the commandments of Allah is what being grateful to Him is. So the Ayat proves that if one

obeys Allah by fulfilling His commandments (such as the command of Jihad), then Allah will guide him to

other acts of worship and obedience. Contrary to that, the dangerous deviance which is spreading today

by the misguided scholars is that guidance to you and your family is by you disobeying Allah by leaving

the Jihad. Allah al-Musta’aan. This is the result of raising the intellect over the Shar’ee texts.

So what was proven is that Jihad necessitates guidance and is a cause for it increasing. And it is not

possible to instruct and guide others unless oneself is guided in the first place. Allah said:

للوذبيلتنللق رةلأعنلواجالنللعلدمتقنلإململواعذينلي قوعونلبب نلله لعنللمنلأزواجنل

Meaning: “And those who say, "Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort

to our eyes and make us a leader for the righteous."”

There is in the Ayat a dua saying “make us a leader for the righteous.” That is so that our wives and

offspring could take instruction and guidance from us and follow our example in goodness. And the

Imam Mujahid Rahimahullah did Tafsir of this Ayat that we take the righteous before us as a leader and

follow them.

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This is because it is not possible that anyone take guidance and instruction from us unless we follow

and guide ourselves by the righteous Salaf who were before us.

So upon the one who wants to guide and instruct his family religiously, then upon him is to follow the

guidance himself first. Obey the commandments of Allah and abstain from what he prohibited. Leaving

the Wajib Jihad is a major sin. So upon the one who wants to bring up his family according to the correct

Manhaj, then upon him is to obey the commandments of Allah such as Jihad in His cause. No one except

a fool would invent his own Manhaj in Dawah to Allah and hope that by him disobeying Allah through

neglecting Jihad, can guide and instruct his family by this to the straight path. No one says this except

he who has lost his intellect. The Guidance is in the Hands of Allah and He guides whom He wills. He will

guide the offspring of the righteous as is known from the Ayat:

لآللي اقو ل عكليتبيكلببكلوي الدمكلمنلتأويللالحلديثلويتملنادمتهلعليكلوعلى لأب ويكلمنلق بللإب راهيملوكذ لكدمللأهللعلى إنلببكلعليملحكيملل وإسحلقل

Meaning: “And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the interpretation of narratives

and complete His favor upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He completed it upon

your fathers before, Abraham and Isaac. Indeed, your Lord is Knowing and Wise."”

The Ayat which preceded shows that Allah guides the offspring of the righteous people. Take notice

here. Can the one who abandon Jihad in such a time where the slogans of the Deen are taken as

mockery and the Ummah stuck in such a humiliated state be regarded as a righteous person? Ofcourse

not. Allah describes the righteous true believers in His statement:

للاعدمؤمنونلاعذينلآمنوالبلعلهلوبسوعهلمثلللي رتلبوالوجله والبأمواهلملوأنفسهل أوعئكلهملاعصلدقونلل ملفلسبيللاعلهلإمن

Meaning: “The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and

then doubt not but do Jihad with their properties and their lives in the cause of Allah. It is

those who are the truthful.”

And:

هلملمغفرةلوبزقلكريلل ذينلآمنوالوهلجروالوجله والفلسبيللاعلهلواعذينلآووالونصروالأوعئكلهملاعدمؤمنونلحقلواعل

Meaning: “But those who have believed and emigrated and fought in the cause of Allah and

those who gave shelter and aided - it is they who are the believers, truly. For them is

forgiveness and noble provision.”

And the example of the evil scholars who have said that it is enough for you to be considered righteous

as long as you shed tears and cry over the Ummah, while at the same time abandoning the Wajib Jihad

are like the brothers of Yusuf alayhissalam who plotted to kill him or cast him out to another land and

then repent afterwards. What good would such tears do when such repentance (tawba) is Fasid in the

first place. Allah informed us of them:

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اق ت لواليوسفلأولاطرحوهلأبضلليللعكملوجهلأبيكملوتكونوالمنلب ا هلق ومللصلحلنل

Meaning: “Kill Joseph or cast him out to [another] land; the countenance of your father will

[then] be only for you, and you will (repent and) be after that a righteous people."”

So such a person cannot be considered as righteous even if the evil scholars have falsely labeled him

with it. And the Ayat of this topic which was mentioned proves that Allah guides the offspring of the

righteous people. So obey Allah and wage Jihad, then your offspring will be blessed by the Mercy of

Allah.

And another fundamental which you must understand is that Guidance is in the hands of Allah and it

does not become incumbent upon your family by you staying with them. Nor are they deprived from it

when you part from them. Rather Guidance is from Allah. Allah said:

منلأحببتلوعكنلاعلهلي ه يلمنليشلءلإنكلللت ه يل

Meaning: “Indeed, [O Muhammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guides whom He

wills.”

Upon us is only guiding by instructing and the Tawfiq is from Allah. So while you have no power over the

affair, how can you expect Guidance and Tawfiq for you and your family from Allah by gaining his anger

due to your disobedience to him through your neglecting of Jihad? After this, how can you expect His

Paradise? Allah said:

الالنةلوعدمللي الملاعلهلاعذينلجله والمنكملوي الملاعصلبرينلأملحسبتملأنلت خلول

Meaning: “Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while Allah has not yet tested those of

you who fight in His cause and tested those who are steadfast?”

And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam informed us that the Mujahid in the cause of Allah will be in

the highest level of Paradise:

إنلفلالنةلملئةلدبجةلأع هللا هللعلدمجله ينلفلسبيللا هل،لمللبنلاع بجتنلكدمللبنلاعسدملءلوالبض،لفإدالسأعتملا هللفلسأعوهل بواهلاعبخلبي "وفوقهلعرشلاعرمحنلومنهلتفجرلأهنلبلالنةل–أباهلقلللل–وس،لفإنهلأوسطلالنةلوأعلىلالنةلاعفرد

Meaning: “Verily in Paradise there are hundred degrees which Allah prepared for the

Mujahidin in the cause of Allah. Between every two degrees is like the distance between the

heaven and the Earth. So if you ask Allah, ask him for al-Firdaws as it is the middle and the

highest of the Paradise.” The narrator said: I think the Prophet also said: “And above is it the

Arsh of the Rahman and from it gushes forth the rivers of Paradise.” Sahih al-Bukhari

So it is clear that the Mujahid has the highest level in Paradise. So whoever wants the highest level for

himself and his family, then let him wage Jihad in the cause of Allah as Allah informed us that from His

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Mercy, He would favor the one with the highest level from the family by elevating the others of the

family to a level as him. Allah said:

جنلتلع نلي خلون هللومنلصلحلمنلآبلئهملوأزواجهملوذبيلهتمل

Meaning: “Gardens of perpetual residence; they will enter them with whoever were righteous

among their fathers, their spouses and their descendants.”

So the ones of lower levels are elevated to the level of the one who gets the highest level as long as they

were believers who did good deeds (though lesser than the one who did the most). This was mentioned

in the books of Tafsir.

The second doubt is leaving the Fard Ayn Jihad inorder to support one’s family physically and

financially.

Every time a Mujahid sets out to give victory to his Deen and Muslims, the misguided scholars would

claim that the Mujahid has abandoned his family and abandoned giving them their rights financially,

physically etc. Even though these people have certificates of Islamic knowledge and titles, Allah

informed us that they won’t understand the reality and truth of the matter as they were pleased with

staying behind from Jihad. Allah said:

لق لوبملف همل للي فقهونللبضوالبأنليكونوالمعلالواعفلوطبعلعلى

Meaning: “They were satisfied to be with those who stay behind (from Jihad), and their hearts

were sealed over, so they do not understand.”

And their disobedience to Allah after their knowledge of the Shariah is a cause for them being

misguided. Allah said:

لهلململلي ت قونل لي ب ن ومللكلنلاعلهلعيضللق ومللب ا لإذله اهملحت

Meaning: “And Allah would not let a people stray after He has guided them until He makes

clear to them what they should avoid.”

So their disobedience by leaving the Wajib Jihad after their knowledge of its obligatory nature causes

them to go astray and be misguided. Allah said elsewhere:

لوعنكوننلمنلاعصل *للف لدمللآتلهملمنلفضلهلبلوالبهلوت وعوالوهملمارضونل*لللحلنلومن هملمنلعله لاعلهلعئنلآتلنللمنلفضلهلعنص قنلي وملي لقونهلبللأخلفوالاعلهلمللوع وهلوبللكلنواليكل ذبونلفأعقب هملنفلقللفلق لوبملإل

Meaning: “And among them are those who made a covenant with Allah, [saying], "If He should

give us from His bounty, we will surely spend in charity, and we will surely be among the

righteous."لBut when he gave them from His bounty, they were stingy with it and turned away

while they refused. So He penalized them with hypocrisy in their hearts until the Day they

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will meet Him - because they failed Allah in what they promised Him and because they

[habitually] used to lie.”

So those ones who promised Allah that they will act upon their knowledge if Allah taught them and that

they would not hide their knowledge and declare the truth, yet when Allah gave them knowledge from

His Bounty and elevated their position, they have betrayed the covenant of Allah and by this, they are

misguided and hypocrisy is in their hearts.

And furthermore, Allah said:

رجوالمايلأب الوعنلت ل هملفلستأذنوكلعلخروجلف قللعنل لطلئفةلمن دلأوللمرةلإنكملبضيتملبلعقاولل قلتلوالمايلع وافإنلبجاكلاعلهلإل فلق ا والمعلاللعفنل

Meaning: “If Allah should return you to a faction of them [after the expedition] and then they

ask your permission to go out [to battle], say, "You will not go out with me, ever, and you will

never fight with me an enemy. Indeed, you were satisfied with sitting [at home] the first

time, so sit [now] with those who stay behind."”

So these scholars are misguided deviants due to their abandoning of the Wajib Jihad which they very

well knew off and now they are punished due to this and they have no understanding of the affair. So

does the one with intellect seek Fatwa from them regarding the Jihad or does he seek it from the

scholars who understand the Jihad and the worldly affairs?

And ponder upon the words of Allah. He described the hypocrites as having claimed the same excuse

during the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam’s travel to Makkah:

نللأمواعنللوأهلونللفلست غفرلعنل قللفدمنليلكلعكملل ي قوعونلبأعسنتهململلعيسلفلق لوبملل سي قوللعكلاعدمخلفونلمنلالعرا لشغلت بللكلنلاعلهلبللت ادملونلخبريال منلاعلهلشيئللإنلأبادلبكملضرالأولأبادلبكملن فال

Meaning: “Those who remained behind of the bedouins will say to you, "Our properties and our

families occupied us, so ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not within

their hearts. Say, "Then who could prevent Allah at all if He intended for you harm or

intended for you benefit? Rather, ever is Allah, with what you do, Acquainted.”

What needs to be understood is that whatever has been written upon your family will come to pass.

Whatever they were destined to eat, they would eat from it. Whatever was decreed upon them from

harm or benefit would come to pass. There is no one to delay it or advance it. There is no one to prevent

it or cause it to happen except Allah. The man of the family is only a Sabab and if he is gone, Allah will

bring other Asbab (plural of Sabab) and what was destined would still come to pass.

Abu Bakur radiallahu anhu offered all his wealth for the sake of Allah and when he was asked what he

left behind for his family, he replied: “Allah and His Messenger.”

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The companions of the Prophet left their wealth and their families in order to go out and fight for the

sake of Allah. It was not regarded as a valid excuse with the companions to stay back from fighting in

order to feed your family because Allah and His Messenger, this Deen is above oneself and family.

Know O brother that Allah the Shaari’u has legislated that we must go out for Jihad even if it means

leaving our families and everything. Allah said:

لإعيكملقللإنلكلنلآبلؤكملوأب نلؤكملوإخوانكملوأزواجكملوعشريتكملوأمواللاق ت رف تدموهللوجتل شونلكسلدهللومسلكنلت رضون هللأح لبةلليأتلاعلهلبأمرهللمنلاعلهلوبسوعهلوجهلدلفلسبيلهل واعلهلللي ه يلاعقوملاعفلسقنلل ف ت ربصوالحت

Meaning: “Say, [O Muhammad], "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your

relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and

dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger

and jihad in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command. And Allah does not guide

the defiantly disobedient people."”

So according to a large group of Salaf, if one is distanced from the Wajib Jihad due to his love for his

family, then this is lesser shirk.

And Allah legislated Jihad upon us even if by it we fear loss of families or harm towards our family. Allah

said:

تلللوهولكرهلعكملكت لعليكملاعقل

Meaning: “Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is disliked to you.”

Meaning it is Wajib upon us even with the fear of losing our families or the fear of the harm that may fall

upon them from enemies or etc.

Rather it is Wajib upon us to love Allah more than our love towards our families. Allah said:

لاعلهل واعذينلآمنوالأش لحبللعلهلل يبون هملكح

Meaning: “They love them as they [should] love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in

love for Allah.”

Because loving is also an act of worship and it is not allowed that we love our families to such an extent

that we would abandon the Wajib Jihad for their sake 3 as Allah created us and gave us Rizq. Allah said:

ببكملاعذيلخلقكمليللأي هللاعنلسلاعب وال

Meaning: “O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you”

3 In our treatise “Risalat on Tawhid”, there is a small chapter on the topic of loving and the Tafsil regarding it where it becomes

lesser shirk and where it is greater shirk based on the words of Sheikh Ali al Khudhayr (May Allah free him)

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So it is more fitting that you give priority to Allah and His Deen and Jihad more than your family whom

you have to take care of. Allah created you and fed you while you have to take care of your family.

And know that if you are a righteous person who obeys the commandments of Allah and does Jihad in

His sake, He would grant Rizq to your offspring due to your obedience and have Mercy on them. The

evidence is:

لغللأش مللويستخرجللكنزمللبمحةل ابلفكلنلعغالمنليتيدمنلفلاعدم ينةلوكلنلحتهلكنزلهلدمللوكلنلأبومللصلحلللفأبلوأمللالل ادلببكلأنلي ب منلببكل

Meaning: “And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was

and their father had been righteous. So your Lord intended beneath it a treasure for them,

”that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord.

So if the father is righteous, then Allah would protect his children, feed them, improve their conditions

and have Mercy on them. And it has passed before in the article that inorder to be righteous in these

days, one must do Jihad as the Jihad is Fard Ayn now.

So glad tidings be for the Mujahidin and their families. Happiness is for them in this world and the

hereafter. The affair is not as the misguided scholars have said. Rather Allah opens doorways for the one

who has Taqwa of Him. He will feed them and take care of their affairs. Allah said:

ومنلي ت وكللعلىلاعلهلف هولحسبهلل وي رزقهلمنلحيثللليتس ل*لللومنلي تقلاعلهلياللعهلمرجل

Meaning: “And whoever observes Taqwa of Allah - He will make for him a way out. And will

provide for him Rizq from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah - then He

is sufficient for him.”

And Taqwa of Allah is doing what He commanded and abandoning what He prohibited. So the Wajib

Jihad is from the greatest commandments of Allah and leaving it is a major sin. So from this Ayat it has

become clear that Jihad opens doorways of Rizq and goodness for him. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi

wasallam is narrated to have said:

وجاللبزقيلحتلظللبحمي

Meaning: “And my Rizq has been placed under the shade of my spear” Imam Ahmed narrated it.

Here ends the topic of discussion on the article.

And in ending, the defensive Jihad does not have any conditions for it. It is not a condition that one has

a great deal of power or strength, nor is it conditioned that one has the permission of the ruler or

parents. Rather everyone is to fight according to his capability. Sheikhul Islam Ibn Thaymiyya said:

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“About the defensive jihad, which is repelling an aggressor, is the most tasking type of jihad. As agreed

upon by everyone, it is obligatory to protect the religion and what is sacred. The first obligation after

Iman is the repulsion of the enemy aggressor who assaults the religion and the worldly affairs. There are

no conditional requirements such as supplies or transport, rather he is fought with all immediate

capability. The scholars, our peers and others have spoken about this.” Al-Ikthiyarat al-Fuqaha

And he further said:

"If the enemy intends an attack upon the Muslims, then repelling him becomes obligatory upon the

population under attack as well as the population not under attack. The Exalted has said (translated) :

"...But if they seek your help in religion, it is your duty to help them...".__ As well, the Prophet (saw)

ordered the assisting of a Muslim in need. Whether or not one is a salaried soldier, and no matter what

his capabilities, it is an obligation upon everybody with their persons and wealth, little or much, riding

or on foot. As it was when the enemy attacked Medina in the Battle of the Trench, Allah allowed no one

to be exempted." Majmu al Fatawa 28/358

But it is a disaster how the scholars of misguidance have inserted into the Deen whatever condition

(Shar’th) they can think off in regards to Jihad. What needs to be understood is that conditions are part

of the legislated Shariah and none has a right to add to it or diminish from it. The Prophet sallallahu

alayhi wasallam said:

قضلءلل،وإنلكلنلملئةلشرطلل،ل لاعلهلف هولبلطللمللكلنلمنلشرطلعيسلفلكتللمللبلللبجللليشتطونلشروطللعيستلفلكتل لاعلهل اعلهلأحقل

Meaning: “What is wrong with the people that they are stipulating conditions which are not in

the book of Allah? Any Shar’th (condition) that is not in the book of Allah is Batil (false), even

if it is a hundred conditions. The judgment of Allah is more rightful.”Sahih al-Bukhari

So inorder to stipulate a certain factor as a condition, it has to be proven from the book of Allah. But

what these misguided deviant scholars are doing is inserting whatever that comes to their mind as a

condition for Jihad and playing with the Deen of Allah without hesitation. Wallahul Musta’aan. Is there a

single evidence with them for any of the conditions which they have set up for the defensive Jihad? Al-

Hafiz Sulayman al-Alwan said: “Let them bring a single evidence for the conditions they have set up for

the defensive Jihad. They won’t be able to bring any evidence for them except the Shaythan”

There is nothing that can be done for the one whom Allah has taken away mercy from his heart due to

his own sins. Know that the knowledge of the Deen is a trust from Allah and it would be questioned

about. And the one who hid it is cursed so what about the one who tries to distort it?

للحمدم لوعلىلآعهلوصحبهلوسلموصلىلا هللعلىلسي ن