What is your opinion regarding the consequences of upright youth going to jihad, such as professors, teachers, preachers, orators, imams, and employees?
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The questioner : ... He says: But what are we, students of knowledge and others such as professors, teachers, preachers, orators, imams, and employees, to do? And the other says: What is your opinion regarding the consequences of upright youth going to jihad despite the pressing need for them in their countries?
The Shaykh : What is the most urgent need? The current situation in Afghanistan is such that no need is more urgent than expelling the enemy from the land of the Muslims. Whatever the needs may be, they are either individual obligations, meaning fard 'ayn, or collective obligations, meaning fard kifayah. If it is a collective obligation, such as seeking knowledge, an individual obligation is not compared to a collective obligation. However, if it is among the individual obligations, then every person of legal capacity knows his own situation better than anyone else. It is he who must weigh this individual obligation, which is jihad in the path of Allah, against remaining in his homeland under the claim that he is fulfilling an individual obligation. I imagine, for example, two old people who have only one young man to serve them. If he were to turn away from them, leave them between four walls, and go to fight in the path of Allah with all enthusiasm, I think he has an excuse to remain with his parents, because there is no one to provide them with the obligatory service. But who performs this comparison and this preference? It is not me, nor is it you, but the person of legal capacity himself. Therefore, every person of legal capacity must weigh such a balance. If it is a collective obligation, an individual obligation is not compared to it. If it is an individual obligation, let him look at which is stronger and proceed with it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : In conclusion, among the conditions of an individual obligation, the approval of the parents is not considered, according to the condition previously explained...
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The Shaykh : In conclusion, this has been discussed previously... repeating the discussion...
The Shaykh : What is the most urgent need? The current situation in Afghanistan is such that no need is more urgent than expelling the enemy from the land of the Muslims. Whatever the needs may be, they are either individual obligations, meaning fard 'ayn, or collective obligations, meaning fard kifayah. If it is a collective obligation, such as seeking knowledge, an individual obligation is not compared to a collective obligation. However, if it is among the individual obligations, then every person of legal capacity knows his own situation better than anyone else. It is he who must weigh this individual obligation, which is jihad in the path of Allah, against remaining in his homeland under the claim that he is fulfilling an individual obligation. I imagine, for example, two old people who have only one young man to serve them. If he were to turn away from them, leave them between four walls, and go to fight in the path of Allah with all enthusiasm, I think he has an excuse to remain with his parents, because there is no one to provide them with the obligatory service. But who performs this comparison and this preference? It is not me, nor is it you, but the person of legal capacity himself. Therefore, every person of legal capacity must weigh such a balance. If it is a collective obligation, an individual obligation is not compared to it. If it is an individual obligation, let him look at which is stronger and proceed with it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : In conclusion, among the conditions of an individual obligation, the approval of the parents is not considered, according to the condition previously explained...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : In conclusion, this has been discussed previously... repeating the discussion...
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