Some of the brothers want to go to Afghanistan to train in weapons, so that they may gain experience with weapons there.
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The questioner : We said: regarding the jihad in Afghanistan; I mean, my brothers, right now... he wants to go to jihad to train in weapons and so that we have experience with weapons if we fight the Jews and if we fight the enemy... we will be trained; what is the ruling on this? I mean, he learns...
The Shaykh : If...
The questioner : I mean, right now he trains in weapons to fight the enemy in the future and so that he has experience.
The Shaykh : ... right now, people or Muslims are three...:
The first type: he goes to jihad in the path of Allah there, so this is in the highest ranks.
The second: the one you mentioned about him, he goes to practice using a type or types of weapons; so this is next to it in rank.
The third: neither the first nor the second; so he is the worst of them, but the second is in a better state than the first, but he is deficient in the knowledge of the obligatory, is that clear?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Because the use of weapons is a means, not a goal, the goal is as you expressed just now, he goes to learn so that one day he will fight in Palestine...
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay; so learning is a means and the goal is jihad, why do you not fight now? ...
The questioner : My country is more deserving of jihad.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russians withdrew from it.
The Shaykh : This is disbelief, it is not permissible.
The questioner : Okay; right now Afghanistan, the Russians withdrew from it, in any other country.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : The Russians withdrew.
The Shaykh : The Russians? Ah, the communists, yes.
The questioner : They withdrew from it, right now in any country like Syria, like Iraq, I mean there is no difference.
... ... ...
The Shaykh : If...
The questioner : I mean, right now he trains in weapons to fight the enemy in the future and so that he has experience.
The Shaykh : ... right now, people or Muslims are three...:
The first type: he goes to jihad in the path of Allah there, so this is in the highest ranks.
The second: the one you mentioned about him, he goes to practice using a type or types of weapons; so this is next to it in rank.
The third: neither the first nor the second; so he is the worst of them, but the second is in a better state than the first, but he is deficient in the knowledge of the obligatory, is that clear?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Because the use of weapons is a means, not a goal, the goal is as you expressed just now, he goes to learn so that one day he will fight in Palestine...
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay; so learning is a means and the goal is jihad, why do you not fight now? ...
The questioner : My country is more deserving of jihad.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russians withdrew from it.
The Shaykh : This is disbelief, it is not permissible.
The questioner : Okay; right now Afghanistan, the Russians withdrew from it, in any other country.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : The Russians withdrew.
The Shaykh : The Russians? Ah, the communists, yes.
The questioner : They withdrew from it, right now in any country like Syria, like Iraq, I mean there is no difference.
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