The Ruling on Fighting the Polytheists in the Sacred Months
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, in the sacred months, do Muslims cease fighting the polytheists, or was that only at the beginning and was later abrogated?
Answer:
Yes, the correct view is that it was abrogated. Fighting the polytheists, when able, is prescribed (mashru') permanently in all months, and the prohibition of fighting in the sacred months has been abrogated, as Allah the Exalted said:[At-Tawbah 9:5].
The "sacred months" referred to in His saying, namely[At-Tawbah 9:5], are not the four months, which are Dhu al-Qa'dah, Dhu al-Hijjah, Muharram, and Rajab. It is not these. The "sacred months" meant here are the months of the truce between them and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), the months of the truce between them and the Messenger [At-Tawbah 9:2]. This is a respite that Allah granted them, in which fighting them is forbidden. When these four months end, they are to be fought.
Honorable Shaykh, in the sacred months, do Muslims cease fighting the polytheists, or was that only at the beginning and was later abrogated?
Answer:
Yes, the correct view is that it was abrogated. Fighting the polytheists, when able, is prescribed (mashru') permanently in all months, and the prohibition of fighting in the sacred months has been abrogated, as Allah the Exalted said:
kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush
فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدتُّمُوهُمْ وَخُذُوهُمْ وَاحْصُرُوهُمْ وَاقْعُدُوا لَهُمْ كُلَّ مَرْصَدٍThe "sacred months" referred to in His saying, namely
And when the sacred months have passed
فَإِذَا انسَلَخَ الْأَشْهُرُ الْحُرُمُSo travel freely, [O disbelievers], throughout the land [during] four months
فَسِيحُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ
Source
القتال للمشركين في الأشهر الحرم — alfawzan.live
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