What is your advice regarding supporting the mujahideen with money and encouraging them?
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Question:
One of the brothers says: We ask Your Eminence the Shaykh to urge Muslims to donate money, as I read that the mujahideen are in need of funds, and Muslims are falling short in their duty toward the mujahideen. Why do you not hold one of your Thursday seminars on jihad and its virtues, even if only once a month? And so on.
Answer:
This is good and fine, and there is no doubt that it is in need of jihad, of money, of men, and of weapons. We ask Allah to grant him help and success. But we give you good news that, by the praise of Allah, he has a great deal of good: he has weapons, he has money, and he has men. We ask Allah to help him. Encouragement for this is being provided through writings from us and from others, but even so, they are always in need of encouragement, even if only once or twice a month. We ask Allah to make that easy, and this matter must be done, if Allah wills. Now, we also encourage our brothers and call upon them to strive in jihad with their brothers with the money that Allah has given them, because Allah says:[At-Tawbah 9:41] You, my Muslim brother, are being called to jihad with your person and your wealth, hoping for what is with Allah. We ask Allah for success and guidance for everyone. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Even the tongue is a call to Allah, and even the people are in jihad; jihad is jihad.
One of the brothers says: We ask Your Eminence the Shaykh to urge Muslims to donate money, as I read that the mujahideen are in need of funds, and Muslims are falling short in their duty toward the mujahideen. Why do you not hold one of your Thursday seminars on jihad and its virtues, even if only once a month? And so on.
Answer:
This is good and fine, and there is no doubt that it is in need of jihad, of money, of men, and of weapons. We ask Allah to grant him help and success. But we give you good news that, by the praise of Allah, he has a great deal of good: he has weapons, he has money, and he has men. We ask Allah to help him. Encouragement for this is being provided through writings from us and from others, but even so, they are always in need of encouragement, even if only once or twice a month. We ask Allah to make that easy, and this matter must be done, if Allah wills. Now, we also encourage our brothers and call upon them to strive in jihad with their brothers with the money that Allah has given them, because Allah says:
Go forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah
انفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا وَجَاهِدُوا بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِStrive with your wealth, your persons, and your tongues.
جاهدوا مسلمين بأموالكم وأنفسكم وألسنتكم
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 02 ما نصيحتكم حول دعم المجاهدين بالمال وتشجيعهم؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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