The ruling on considering the Turkish campaign as a fight against the Khawarij
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says, and he has asked this question before: What is your view of those who say that the Turkish campaign during the author's time was of the nature of fighting the rebels and the Khawarij, because the people of the da'wah (calling to Islam) rebelled against the Ottoman state, in their claim?
Answer:
The Ottoman state—we have said how many times that it did not take control of the lands of Najd. Rather, the lands of Najd were in the hands of their rulers, from the Al Saud family and others. The Turkish state did not take control of them, nor did it care about them. But when the call to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) appeared, they feared it. They feared for their own lives from the call to tawhid, so they came to fight it to put an end to it. They feared that it would extend to their lands and turn the people against them.
So they fought them out of fear of them, not because they rebelled against them. They did not claim to be rebels against them. Bring me from any of their books or documents that they fought the people of Najd because they rebelled against them. Never. It is not there. Because they were not in their jurisdiction. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says, and he has asked this question before: What is your view of those who say that the Turkish campaign during the author's time was of the nature of fighting the rebels and the Khawarij, because the people of the da'wah (calling to Islam) rebelled against the Ottoman state, in their claim?
Answer:
The Ottoman state—we have said how many times that it did not take control of the lands of Najd. Rather, the lands of Najd were in the hands of their rulers, from the Al Saud family and others. The Turkish state did not take control of them, nor did it care about them. But when the call to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) appeared, they feared it. They feared for their own lives from the call to tawhid, so they came to fight it to put an end to it. They feared that it would extend to their lands and turn the people against them.
So they fought them out of fear of them, not because they rebelled against them. They did not claim to be rebels against them. Bring me from any of their books or documents that they fought the people of Najd because they rebelled against them. Never. It is not there. Because they were not in their jurisdiction. Yes.
Source
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