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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Advice for the one who loves jihad in the path of Allah

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The questioner:
The questioner says: I am a man who loves jihad in the path of Allah, so what do you advise me?

The Shaykh:
You get what you intended. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He who dies without having fought or having felt fighting (against the infidels) to be his duty will die guilty of a kind ofمن لم يغزو ولم يحدث نفسه بالغزو مات على شعبة من
Sunan Abi Dawud 2502Sahih (Al-Albani)
of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance or of hypocrisy. So the fact that you tell yourself that if jihad is found, you will participate in it, you have a reward for this. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh:
What exists now, in terms of partisanship and fighting among people over matters that are not in the path of Allah, but rather matters they intend for themselves, where each one wants to carry out his own objective, this is not of jihad, this is of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Yes.
Source شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب ما جاء من التغليظ فيمن عبد الله عند قبر رجل صالح، فكيف إذا عبده ؟ — islamhouse.com (59:27)

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