The Absolute Truce with Disbelievers and Is It Permissible to Break It?

The questioner : The absolute truce.

The Shaykh : It is permissible if there is a need for it. This absolute truce, if we make a truce with them to stop fighting, and then Allah gives us strength, may I proceed? Is it permissible for us to break it? Yes, yes. Yes, here we have the judges. And we say: There is no time-limited treaty between us and you that you can hold us to. We made an absolute truce with you, which may last for decades, or it may be for one year. The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) explicitly stated this, meaning the permissibility of the absolute truce, and this is the truth.

The questioner : If we want to break the treaty, Shaykh, do we inform them of that?

The Shaykh : We must inform them of this.