Questioned about the distinction between the situation in the Gulf and Afghanistan in your statement that Afghanistan is jihad and intention, while the Gulf is fitnah?

The questioner : The questioner says: Please distinguish between the situation in the Gulf and Afghanistan, since you stated that Afghanistan is jihad and intention, while the Gulf is fitnah?

The Shaykh : Does he sayThe questioner : Does the poor man say that when jihad began in Afghanistan, there was fitnah, or was it jihad? This is a question that has been repeated, unfortunately, by many people. They do not distinguish between our Afghan brothers, who struggled for ten years to eliminate the communist rule in their land, and those who suffered a setback or defeat, unfortunately, in the last of those years, and we hope it was a transient matter. This does not distinguishThe questioner : and others like him from those who initiated jihad in the path of Allah, striking the communist party that the communists there support, whether they were the Soviets in the past or their followers in the present. They do not distinguish between this jihad and the fitnah that exists today, and there is no jihad. Therefore, to complete the discussion I referred to in the conclusion of my previous speech, we must not be as the common Syrian proverb says, "One stick gathers them, and one stick scatters them." A word unites us, and a word divides us. Recently, there were some people who pretended to be Islamic callers, or who pretended to be Islamic callers, who declared the Ba'ath Party and its leader to be disbelievers. And now, from one evening to the next, this president has become the hope of the states, or the ummah, or all the Islamic peoples. What happened? It is as if he began to say good and beautiful words, and we want them to reflect the reality of this president, but we want to see action, and not just hear, as it is said, "I hear the noise but I do not see the grinding." We have been content with the words and promises of all these rulers, especially the one whom Allah destroyed, who numbed the nerves of the Muslim peoples by saying that we want to throw the Jews into the sea. What was the outcome? They secured the land, from Palestine to the end. We have become accustomed to these words. We want words; for example, we hear something that promises good, that it has become clear to Saddam Hussein that there is no life except in Islam. We want support for this word, that he declares his disavowal of the Ba'ath Party. Then this is not enough; he must abolish something called the Ba'ath Party. Then this is not enough; he must abolish all parties, because Islam does not approve of any party, for Allah the Exalted says in the clear Qur'an: It is amazing, as they say, that the speech is complex. Most Islamic states have what they call the foreign jargon of parliaments. These parliaments gather the righteous and the wicked, and they accept any person belonging to any party, even if that party supports a disbelieving state that undermines Islam and Muslims. Nevertheless, he has the right to run for parliament. Nevertheless, you find some Islamic parties asking, "What is wrong with it, my brother?" They do not realize that this is a disbelieving system that does not represent Islamic rule. Islam says, addressing the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): And it says in the other verse: You see their affair is consultation among them. Who among the Muslims understands, even among these partisans, that "their affair is consultation among them" means the righteous and the wicked, the knowledgeable and the ignorant? I do not think, I do not believe that anyone understands this verse to mean consulting every individual Muslim, and then including women, and then including the believing woman, the open sinner, the one who displays her adornment, and the one who covers herself. Does this verse mean all these types of the ignorant and the open sinners and the like? I do not think anyone believes this if he has any knowledge of Islam. And then how do they say what... .