Is going to train in the camps considered staying in the path of Allah?
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The questioner : What is staying in the path of Allah? First of all, the system there in the camp of the Arab mujahideen is that you do not enter the battles until you have taken this course for three or four months.
The Shaykh : If you do not know.
The questioner : We know how to use weapons lightly; some of us have a background, but they do not let you in. May Allah have mercy on Shaykh Abdullah Azzam. Many of them, like our brother Nawaf, do you know Nawaf? Nawaf Yaqub, our relative, my sister’s husband, the short red one. He went and sat in Afghanistan for three months, wanting to go to jihad. So Shaykh Abdullah Azzam (may Allah have mercy on him) gave them a sermon and said: "Allahu Akbar. You are intending this as staying in the path of Allah. We want to go to the camp, but they do not let us in. We want to sit with our brothers and train. If it is permissible for us to participate, we will participate. It is not as the brother said, 'I will take two or three sacrifices. I want to make room?'"
The Shaykh : Every question has an answer, so you are now drawing a picture, and every picture has its answer.
The questioner : I mean, if I want to train and there is an air raid or artillery shelling, because they constantly shell the Arab camps.
The Shaykh : The original purpose of going, if it is for jihad and not just for training for Palestine, but for jihad directly there.
The questioner : For jihad, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no harm in this.
The Shaykh : If you do not know.
The questioner : We know how to use weapons lightly; some of us have a background, but they do not let you in. May Allah have mercy on Shaykh Abdullah Azzam. Many of them, like our brother Nawaf, do you know Nawaf? Nawaf Yaqub, our relative, my sister’s husband, the short red one. He went and sat in Afghanistan for three months, wanting to go to jihad. So Shaykh Abdullah Azzam (may Allah have mercy on him) gave them a sermon and said: "Allahu Akbar. You are intending this as staying in the path of Allah. We want to go to the camp, but they do not let us in. We want to sit with our brothers and train. If it is permissible for us to participate, we will participate. It is not as the brother said, 'I will take two or three sacrifices. I want to make room?'"
The Shaykh : Every question has an answer, so you are now drawing a picture, and every picture has its answer.
The questioner : I mean, if I want to train and there is an air raid or artillery shelling, because they constantly shell the Arab camps.
The Shaykh : The original purpose of going, if it is for jihad and not just for training for Palestine, but for jihad directly there.
The questioner : For jihad, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no harm in this.