Suicide Operations on the Scale
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Some people have cited the permissibility of killing oneself, or what they call suicide operations, based on a hadith mentioned by Muslim in his Sahih, the hadith of the story of the youth of the People of the Trench. Is their citation correct?
This is correct in its context. If it is found that this person killing himself results in the faith of a group of people, then there is no harm.Because when this youth said to the angel: Take the arrow from my quiver and then say: In the name of Allah, the Lord of this youth. You will surely hit me. The angel did so. What did the people do? They all believed. This is permissible, but the suicide bombers today do not achieve anything from this; rather, it is the opposite. The first one to kill himself, then he may kill one or two, or he may not kill anyone. But what is the enemy's retaliation? How many does he kill? He kills twice as many or more, and no faith is achieved, nor is the killing stopped. This is the response to them.We say: If one finds his situation to be like this situation, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not narrate it to us so that we would hear it as if it were the legends of the former people, but he narrated it to us so that we would take a lesson. If one finds such a situation, there is no harm. Some of them cite the story of al-Bara' ibn Malik in the Battle of Yamamah, where they besieged the garden of Musaylimah and the door was closed and they were unable to enter.Al-Bara' said: Throw me over the wall and open the door for you. So they threw him over and he opened the door. This is not evidence. Why? Because his death was not certain. For this reason, he survived and opened the door for them. But the suicide bomber who ties himself to guns and bombs, does he escape or not? Certainly, he does not escape.And for this reason, had it not been for the goodness of their intentions, we would have said: They are in the Fire, being punished with what they used to kill themselves.
This is correct in its context. If it is found that this person killing himself results in the faith of a group of people, then there is no harm.Because when this youth said to the angel: Take the arrow from my quiver and then say: In the name of Allah, the Lord of this youth. You will surely hit me. The angel did so. What did the people do? They all believed. This is permissible, but the suicide bombers today do not achieve anything from this; rather, it is the opposite. The first one to kill himself, then he may kill one or two, or he may not kill anyone. But what is the enemy's retaliation? How many does he kill? He kills twice as many or more, and no faith is achieved, nor is the killing stopped. This is the response to them.We say: If one finds his situation to be like this situation, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not narrate it to us so that we would hear it as if it were the legends of the former people, but he narrated it to us so that we would take a lesson. If one finds such a situation, there is no harm. Some of them cite the story of al-Bara' ibn Malik in the Battle of Yamamah, where they besieged the garden of Musaylimah and the door was closed and they were unable to enter.Al-Bara' said: Throw me over the wall and open the door for you. So they threw him over and he opened the door. This is not evidence. Why? Because his death was not certain. For this reason, he survived and opened the door for them. But the suicide bomber who ties himself to guns and bombs, does he escape or not? Certainly, he does not escape.And for this reason, had it not been for the goodness of their intentions, we would have said: They are in the Fire, being punished with what they used to kill themselves.