Did Ibn Baz issue a fatwa permitting the assistance of American disbelievers, which serves as proof for the authenticity of the claim attributed to him regarding the killing of the Iraqi army where they were found?
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The questioner : My teacher, does his fatwa permitting the assistance of disbelievers to strike an Islamic country and an army in which there are undoubtedly Muslims not imply what this saying claims, which is circulated and we pause regarding its truth and verification? As long as he says: it is permissible to seek the assistance of the Americans and their allies to fight the Iraqis, and they know that there are Muslims among the Iraqis, then it means that it is permissible to kill these people, because the Iraqi army!
The Shaykh : But I add to what you say: it is not only that he knows there are Muslims among the Iraqis, but he also knows that there are Salafis among them, and Salafis sent from their side.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Therefore, the thing you find strange to derive, after we failed to prove that fatwa by narration, is exactly the opposite. That is, he knows this reality that there are Muslims among them. So if we investigate this narration in terms of its text, not its chain of transmission, it comes out invalid. Because he has employees there in the Salafi da'wah, or the da'wah of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) at least. Because you know that we meet them in tawhid, but we differ from them in many legal rulings, because they are predominantly followers of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But as we all know, the foundation of this religion is pure tawhid (the oneness of Allah). And they, praise be to Allah, in this regard are the elite of the Muslim community in this time in terms of their understanding of tawhid and their adoption of it as a creed, and their teaching of this creed to their children from the softness of their nails. They also care about the Book and the Sunnah more than any other people in this community. Accordingly, they send preachers to various Islamic countries. And although we feel in reality that there is a political hand in these missions, there is no doubt in this. But the purpose of all this speech is that I consider it unlikely that such a fatwa would issue from this man, who orders sending so-and-so and so-and-so to such-and-such a country as preachers to Islam, to tawhid. But as we were— and I mentioned earlier— considering it unlikely that a fatwa approving this assistance, which has no precedent in Islamic history ever, and no one among the scholars of Muslims has said it before at all, would issue from him, then with that, if this fatwa occurred, it is also possible in terms of possibility that this other fatwa could occur. But if we look at its text and what we know of the man's history and his missions in da'wah, I consider it unlikely that this statement would issue from him, and may it also be incorrect.
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : But I add to what you say: it is not only that he knows there are Muslims among the Iraqis, but he also knows that there are Salafis among them, and Salafis sent from their side.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Therefore, the thing you find strange to derive, after we failed to prove that fatwa by narration, is exactly the opposite. That is, he knows this reality that there are Muslims among them. So if we investigate this narration in terms of its text, not its chain of transmission, it comes out invalid. Because he has employees there in the Salafi da'wah, or the da'wah of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) at least. Because you know that we meet them in tawhid, but we differ from them in many legal rulings, because they are predominantly followers of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But as we all know, the foundation of this religion is pure tawhid (the oneness of Allah). And they, praise be to Allah, in this regard are the elite of the Muslim community in this time in terms of their understanding of tawhid and their adoption of it as a creed, and their teaching of this creed to their children from the softness of their nails. They also care about the Book and the Sunnah more than any other people in this community. Accordingly, they send preachers to various Islamic countries. And although we feel in reality that there is a political hand in these missions, there is no doubt in this. But the purpose of all this speech is that I consider it unlikely that such a fatwa would issue from this man, who orders sending so-and-so and so-and-so to such-and-such a country as preachers to Islam, to tawhid. But as we were— and I mentioned earlier— considering it unlikely that a fatwa approving this assistance, which has no precedent in Islamic history ever, and no one among the scholars of Muslims has said it before at all, would issue from him, then with that, if this fatwa occurred, it is also possible in terms of possibility that this other fatwa could occur. But if we look at its text and what we know of the man's history and his missions in da'wah, I consider it unlikely that this statement would issue from him, and may it also be incorrect.
The questioner : If Allah wills.
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