The statement of one who claims that al-Qaeda and al-Zawahiri are more knowledgeable about jihad than the scholars
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Question:
And those who are striving, he says: What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, of the one who says that al-Qaeda and al-Zawahiri are more knowledgeable about the issues of jihad than the scholars?
Answer:
I do not know al-Zawahiri, nor do I know al-Qaeda, but the rulings of jihad, praise be to Allah, are recorded in the books of tafsir, hadith, and fiqh, and they are recorded in the books of creed. So if al-Zawahiri or al-Qaeda follows this methodology, then this is the methodology of jihad. But are al-Zawahiri and al-Qaeda rulers? Are they appointed leaders by the Muslims, or are they those who formed themselves, or were they formed by the enemy to be thrown at the Muslims? We must know this. Yes.
And those who are striving, he says: What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, of the one who says that al-Qaeda and al-Zawahiri are more knowledgeable about the issues of jihad than the scholars?
Answer:
I do not know al-Zawahiri, nor do I know al-Qaeda, but the rulings of jihad, praise be to Allah, are recorded in the books of tafsir, hadith, and fiqh, and they are recorded in the books of creed. So if al-Zawahiri or al-Qaeda follows this methodology, then this is the methodology of jihad. But are al-Zawahiri and al-Qaeda rulers? Are they appointed leaders by the Muslims, or are they those who formed themselves, or were they formed by the enemy to be thrown at the Muslims? We must know this. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-25-إنا كفيناك المستهزئين|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:21)
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