The repentance of a security officer who killed a terrorist in an engagement
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am one of the security officers. In the days that have passed, we raided one of the buildings, and gunfire broke out between the security officers and the terrorists. I fired at one of them and killed him. My question is: My boss at work says that I have no repentance. He cites the saying of Allah the Exalted:[An-Nisa 4:93] the verse.
Answer:
How can your boss at work hold this view and issue this ruling? This is not among his affairs; this is not among his affairs. Issuing such a ruling is among the affairs of the scholars. As for firing at these people, it is because they are the ones firing. This is repelling their evil and their plotting against the Muslims. However, if they had surrendered and submitted to the ruling of Allah the Exalted, it would not be permissible to kill them except by a Shari'ah ruling. But if they did not surrender and resisted, then it is necessary to resist them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am one of the security officers. In the days that have passed, we raided one of the buildings, and gunfire broke out between the security officers and the terrorists. I fired at one of them and killed him. My question is: My boss at work says that I have no repentance. He cites the saying of Allah the Exalted:
But whoever kills a believer intentionally - his recompense is Hell
وَمَن يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُAnswer:
How can your boss at work hold this view and issue this ruling? This is not among his affairs; this is not among his affairs. Issuing such a ruling is among the affairs of the scholars. As for firing at these people, it is because they are the ones firing. This is repelling their evil and their plotting against the Muslims. However, if they had surrendered and submitted to the ruling of Allah the Exalted, it would not be permissible to kill them except by a Shari'ah ruling. But if they did not surrender and resisted, then it is necessary to resist them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 28 من 64\شرح عمدة الأحكام (شرح كامل مع أسئلة)\الزكاة\إنكم تظلمون خالداً\صالح الفوزان\الفقه — youtube.com (59:40)
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