Is it true that Your Eminence does not see jihad in the path of Allah?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is it true, as is said, that Your Eminence does not see jihad in the path of Allah?

Answer:
We have not been attacked by people, and they have not turned against us, except when we wrote about jihad in the path of Allah and responded to the book that denies jihad in the path of Allah. So how can we deny jihad in the path of Allah? We seek refuge in Allah from this; we seek refuge in Allah from denying jihad. But what they call jihad is not jihad; that is what we deny. The destruction, the destruction—that is what we deny. We say it is not jihad; it is corruption. It is not jihad; it is destruction, and the bombings, and the treachery, and the betrayal. That is what we say is not jihad; it is corruption on earth. They took this to be a denial of jihad because they do not know what jihad is, or they know and they mislead the people?