The Afghan Jihad: The Hopes of the Muslim Ummah and Its Pains; What Is Your Opinion, May You Be Honored, About What Is Happening?
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The questioner : The Afghan Jihad is the hope of the Muslim Ummah, and also its pain. So what is your opinion, O honorable Shaykh, about what is happening on the scene today?
The Shaykh : Yes, my opinion is that we must proceed to the end until Allah (Mighty and Majestic) concludes the matter, either with success and the final expulsion of the disbeliever, and then the matter remains in the hands of those people to prove to the people, to all Muslims, that they truly were calling and fighting in order to establish the Muslim state. However, I do not see, in any way, that we should leave them alone at the end of the road. It has been months, unfortunately, before Jalalabad, as they call it, or Kabul, where they are not advancing; they are standing in their place, neither advancing nor retreating. So, in my belief, it is the obligation of the Muslims, which was and still is, to carry them to the end. As for leaving them standing like this, it entails a loss of nearly ten years of the victory that the disbelievers have spoken of, let alone the Muslims. So, unfortunately, the disagreements that have occurred among their factions and parties, even though it is a bad thing and does not bode well, this does not justify or permit us to leave them to their own devices. And you must have read, in what is published in some newspapers and magazines, such as the magazine al-Jihad, which 'Abdullah 'Uzaym used to establish and publish, that he was striving to reconcile the leaders of these parties, and that, as they mentioned, and Allah knows best, he finally succeeded in reconciling two of these leaders. This is undoubtedly a very important work: not surrendering to this bad reality, and not neglecting to support them, whether with thought and opinion and an attempt to reform between these parties, or by supplying them with weapons and strength and the like. This is undoubtedly, in my belief, that those who are able to do something of that and then do not, will be held accountable by Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because they did not support their Muslim brothers, whatever their status, their distance from the Sunnah, their rigidity in following a scholar without knowing his evidence, and some of the superstitions as is reported about them. In any case, they are Muslims who have not exited the circle of Islam. And this confirms upon us, we Arabs, that Allah has blessed us with the correct understanding of Islam on one hand, and with abundant wealth on the other hand, that we should extend to them our knowledge and our wealth, if we are not able to extend to them our persons, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 2504Sahih (Al-Albani)
The Shaykh : Yes, my opinion is that we must proceed to the end until Allah (Mighty and Majestic) concludes the matter, either with success and the final expulsion of the disbeliever, and then the matter remains in the hands of those people to prove to the people, to all Muslims, that they truly were calling and fighting in order to establish the Muslim state. However, I do not see, in any way, that we should leave them alone at the end of the road. It has been months, unfortunately, before Jalalabad, as they call it, or Kabul, where they are not advancing; they are standing in their place, neither advancing nor retreating. So, in my belief, it is the obligation of the Muslims, which was and still is, to carry them to the end. As for leaving them standing like this, it entails a loss of nearly ten years of the victory that the disbelievers have spoken of, let alone the Muslims. So, unfortunately, the disagreements that have occurred among their factions and parties, even though it is a bad thing and does not bode well, this does not justify or permit us to leave them to their own devices. And you must have read, in what is published in some newspapers and magazines, such as the magazine al-Jihad, which 'Abdullah 'Uzaym used to establish and publish, that he was striving to reconcile the leaders of these parties, and that, as they mentioned, and Allah knows best, he finally succeeded in reconciling two of these leaders. This is undoubtedly a very important work: not surrendering to this bad reality, and not neglecting to support them, whether with thought and opinion and an attempt to reform between these parties, or by supplying them with weapons and strength and the like. This is undoubtedly, in my belief, that those who are able to do something of that and then do not, will be held accountable by Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because they did not support their Muslim brothers, whatever their status, their distance from the Sunnah, their rigidity in following a scholar without knowing his evidence, and some of the superstitions as is reported about them. In any case, they are Muslims who have not exited the circle of Islam. And this confirms upon us, we Arabs, that Allah has blessed us with the correct understanding of Islam on one hand, and with abundant wealth on the other hand, that we should extend to them our knowledge and our wealth, if we are not able to extend to them our persons, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: