Is jihad in Afghanistan an individual obligation, given that that government has its share of deviations?
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The Shaykh : ... Afghanistan is open, or more precisely, it remains open to this day for all Muslims. The theoretical ruling is the same, because the previous definition applies to both this and that. However, from the perspective of reality, Muslims today, unfortunately, are not able to fight in the path of Allah against the Jews while they are in Palestine, but they are still able to fight in the path of Allah in Afghanistan. So the difference is practical, not theoretical.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Regarding jihad in Afghanistan, we understand that it is an individual obligation for every Muslim now.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : For every Muslim who is able.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Do we look at the results of this jihad? That is, is it possible that Muslims go to fight, and a government other than this one, with a different affiliation, not to the Soviet Union for example, takes control?
The Shaykh : No one knows the unseen except Allah. If a Muslim looked at it this way, the Muslims would never have been able to stand. Suppose now that a Muslim group from the groups existing today in the Islamic arena raised the banner of jihad in the path of Allah here and there, and this possibility was raised: that these people, in the future, when the state and power are in their hands, might establish a ruling that contradicts Islam, even in some of its aspects? We do not look at the result, which is part of the unseen. There is a danger before us now that must be eliminated with all the strength we have been given. As for what happens afterwards: first, we do not know it; second, we strive with the strength we have been given that nothing happens except what is in accordance with Islam and Muslims. So such illusions are not permissible to stand in the way of doing what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made obligatory of jihad in the path of Allah.
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The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Regarding jihad in Afghanistan, we understand that it is an individual obligation for every Muslim now.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : For every Muslim who is able.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Do we look at the results of this jihad? That is, is it possible that Muslims go to fight, and a government other than this one, with a different affiliation, not to the Soviet Union for example, takes control?
The Shaykh : No one knows the unseen except Allah. If a Muslim looked at it this way, the Muslims would never have been able to stand. Suppose now that a Muslim group from the groups existing today in the Islamic arena raised the banner of jihad in the path of Allah here and there, and this possibility was raised: that these people, in the future, when the state and power are in their hands, might establish a ruling that contradicts Islam, even in some of its aspects? We do not look at the result, which is part of the unseen. There is a danger before us now that must be eliminated with all the strength we have been given. As for what happens afterwards: first, we do not know it; second, we strive with the strength we have been given that nothing happens except what is in accordance with Islam and Muslims. So such illusions are not permissible to stand in the way of doing what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made obligatory of jihad in the path of Allah.
Please proceed.
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