Commentary on the statement that Jordan is a land of rabitah.
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The questioner : As for the scholars, I heard this story from someone about a month or a month and a half ago, regarding the land of rabitah and the talk that has been going on about it, if that is the case.
The Shaykh : What is this phrase?
The questioner : The land of rabitah, Jordan is the land of rabitah.
The Shaykh : The land of rabitah, rabitah means in jihad.
The questioner : The one who is in it, as if he is a mujahid, and oh, I wish you would listen.
The Shaykh : Unfortunately, today there is nothing of this, because rabitah is on the border with the disbelievers, meaning a Muslim state has a disbeliever state on its eastern, western, northern, or southern border. So it is necessary that there be Muslims stationed there, contrary to what is the case here today, unfortunately, to be on the lookout for all the enemy's movements.
The questioner : But according to my belief, perhaps they do not understand the issue correctly, because they say that the Jews will not cross the Jordan River, and that since they will not cross the Jordan River, the people of this country are those who are stationed (muraabitun) and they have the reward of those who are stationed.
Al-Halabi : In a peaceful sense, meaning
The questioner : I do not know this talk.
The Shaykh : This statement is very dangerous. About a week ago, a person from the publishers came to me and said, "I have an oral message from some residents in the state of the Jews, and they see that they may nominate themselves to enter the Jewish parliament, what do they call it, the Knesset? So I have an oral message, they said, 'We want the answer they want from...'"The Shaykh : Al-Albani: The point is. I say, a person from the publishers of books came to me, carrying an oral message from some heads residing in the state of the Jews, and they may nominate themselves to enter the Jewish parliament, the Knesset. They want to know if this is permissible for them or not, with the goal, of course, being the defense of the rights of the Arabs, as they say, meaning the Muslims residing there under the rule of the Jews. They hinted that they prefer the answer to be in writing. We told him, "Go ahead, write it." The important thing is, he wrote about a page. The point of it is a word I said to them: their entry into the Jewish parliament is an implicit acknowledgment by them of the legitimacy of the Jewish occupation of the land of Palestine. And this statement is exactly like this one. The statement that the Jews will not cross their limit means an acknowledgment that we have conceded to them the right to occupy the part they are currently occupying, but we do not allow them to transgress to us. Rabitah in the Shari'ah, as I mentioned to you just now, with the addition that the stationed ones on the border may raid the disbeliever lands, provided there is no treaty between the Muslims and these lands, as is said today, a non-aggression treaty. But if there is nothing of that, they may raid, kill, and plunder, and so on. This is the function of those who are stationed.
The Shaykh : What is this phrase?
The questioner : The land of rabitah, Jordan is the land of rabitah.
The Shaykh : The land of rabitah, rabitah means in jihad.
The questioner : The one who is in it, as if he is a mujahid, and oh, I wish you would listen.
The Shaykh : Unfortunately, today there is nothing of this, because rabitah is on the border with the disbelievers, meaning a Muslim state has a disbeliever state on its eastern, western, northern, or southern border. So it is necessary that there be Muslims stationed there, contrary to what is the case here today, unfortunately, to be on the lookout for all the enemy's movements.
The questioner : But according to my belief, perhaps they do not understand the issue correctly, because they say that the Jews will not cross the Jordan River, and that since they will not cross the Jordan River, the people of this country are those who are stationed (muraabitun) and they have the reward of those who are stationed.
Al-Halabi : In a peaceful sense, meaning
The questioner : I do not know this talk.
The Shaykh : This statement is very dangerous. About a week ago, a person from the publishers came to me and said, "I have an oral message from some residents in the state of the Jews, and they see that they may nominate themselves to enter the Jewish parliament, what do they call it, the Knesset? So I have an oral message, they said, 'We want the answer they want from...'"The Shaykh : Al-Albani: The point is. I say, a person from the publishers of books came to me, carrying an oral message from some heads residing in the state of the Jews, and they may nominate themselves to enter the Jewish parliament, the Knesset. They want to know if this is permissible for them or not, with the goal, of course, being the defense of the rights of the Arabs, as they say, meaning the Muslims residing there under the rule of the Jews. They hinted that they prefer the answer to be in writing. We told him, "Go ahead, write it." The important thing is, he wrote about a page. The point of it is a word I said to them: their entry into the Jewish parliament is an implicit acknowledgment by them of the legitimacy of the Jewish occupation of the land of Palestine. And this statement is exactly like this one. The statement that the Jews will not cross their limit means an acknowledgment that we have conceded to them the right to occupy the part they are currently occupying, but we do not allow them to transgress to us. Rabitah in the Shari'ah, as I mentioned to you just now, with the addition that the stationed ones on the border may raid the disbeliever lands, provided there is no treaty between the Muslims and these lands, as is said today, a non-aggression treaty. But if there is nothing of that, they may raid, kill, and plunder, and so on. This is the function of those who are stationed.
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