The Kuwaiti student's clarification that Shaykh Abu Malik, in his book, does not deny the obligation of jihad, but rather sets a condition that removes jihad today

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : But I return to say that I personally hope that you read the chapter in full, if Allah wills. I hope that you read the chapter in full.

The Shaykh : ... Do not burden me with what I cannot bear.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : I told you, as an apology in advance.
The student : Okay, I mean, I say that the one who reads the chapter in full, without reading excerpts, without excerpts.

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : He concludes, he concludes from the book, from the chapter, that the Shaykh does not deny, in terms of theory, that Shaykh Abu Malik does not deny, in terms of theory, that jihad is obligatory, but he conditions it with a matter that makes jihad in our current situation dropped, meaning he dropped it due to incapacity, and the incapacity in his intention is the absence of a general imam.

The Shaykh : So what do you say? He dropped it. What do you say?
The student : I say that a general imam is not a condition.

The Shaykh: All right.
The student : In jihad.

The Shaykh : You did not drop it.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh: No.
The student : But preparation is obligatory.

The Shaykh : And this is what he says.
The student : I would be very pleased if, I mean, his words...

The Shaykh : No problem, my brother, I am saying this is what he says. Did you not read in it that preparation is obligatory?
The student : Yes, but he added a condition, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : I did not deny this condition, may Allah reward you.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : I did not deny what you attribute to him, because he said it.
The student : He makes preparation.

The Shaykh : But in the end, you meet with him. You differ with him in expression and agree with him in action. Do not forget what I asked you just now, where your correct, explicit answer made your imam, our brother, friend, and beloved, Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq, sinful now, because he does not fight with the sword, he does not fight with the sword. And you, and you, and you, and I, all of us, none of us fight with the sword. Can we say, no, we fight with the sword?
The student: No.

The Shaykh : Okay, so then.
The student : Preparation is obligatory.

The Shaykh : There is no difference between you and Abd al-Rahman on one hand, and between me and Abu Malik on the other hand. There is no difference between me and Abu Malik, there is no difference.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : There is no difference between you and Abd al-Rahman, and all of us are gathered by one misfortune, that we do not fight with the sword. What is the benefit of this commotion? He said so and so and so, and it means the obligation of preparation for jihad in the path of Allah, so that we are not all between one who says that jihad in the path of Allah is an individual obligation and fighting is required with everything the Muslim is able to do, and one who says and sings constantly and always, and I am at the forefront of them, that spiritual and material preparation is necessary. So now, what is the practical difference between Abu Malik and Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq? Neither of them fights with the sword?
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Correct.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, we ask now, is Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq sinful?
The student : In this respect, he is not considered sinful.

The Shaykh : Why?
The student : Because he says preparation is obligatory.

The Shaykh : Okay, and this is the saying of Abu Malik.
The student : But Shaykh Abu Malik adds a condition that Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq does not add, which makes preparation a nullified matter, meaning if we go beyond and say to Shaykh Abu Malik, we have reached the stage of preparation.

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : And there is no general imam.